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22.10.2025
Webinar Series – Competition in Mozambique: a new paradigm
The strengthening of competition promotion and enforcement in Mozambique is crucial to ensure the sustainable growth of the economy and to expand opportunities in external markets.
To present the work of the Competition Regulatory Authority (ARC) of Mozambique, Abreu Advogados, in partnership with JLA Advogados, invited the Chairman of the ARC Board of Directors, Iacumba Ali Aiuba, to discuss the priorities, challenges, and instruments of the competition policy implemented by the Mozambican regulatory authority.
The webinar “Competition in Mozambique: a new paradigm” took place on 22 October and featured Maria João Melícias, co-head of Competition, Regulation and European Union at Abreu Advogados, and Zara Jamal, partner at JLA Advogados.
AGENDA
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ARC’s activity priorities
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The challenges of the State’s role in the economy
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Opportunities and challenges of Mozambique’s integration into the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA)
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The effectiveness of leniency programmes
This was the second session in a series of competition webinars dedicated to recent developments in the enforcement of competition policy in Portuguese-speaking countries.
Main topics:
00:08:23 – Activity of Mozambique’s ARC in recent years
00:16:50 – Key challenges and opportunities in the context of regional and continental economic integration
00:21:50 – Operation of competition policy within the African Continental Free Trade Area
00:25:30 – Exception in the application of competition rules in the gas sector
00:29:05 – Challenges of State participation in companies
00:35:20 – Investigation of anti-competitive behaviours
00:47:10 – Leniency programmes or immunity regime
00:48:00 – Competition legal framework does not provide for Private Enforcement in Mozambique
00:50:00 – ARC’s jurisdiction in the banking and financial sector
00:54:30 – Future challenges
