The European Commission (EC) notes that there could be a potential infringement of the competition rules of Article 101 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the EU that allow bad practices of insurers in the Spanish State, in relation to repair shops.

This EC report has its origin in the admission to processing of the complaint by the Spanish associations of workshops, with Ganvam and CETRAA -members of CECRA- Fagenauto and Conepa at the head, before the Committee on Petitions of the European Parliament and its subsequent transfer to both the Committee on the Internal Market and Consumer Protection (IMCO) and the European Commission, which has now responded.

The EC will send the file to the National Commission on Markets and Competition (Comisión Nacional de los Mercados y la Competencia, CNMC), a body that must resolve it, with the monitoring and supervision of the EC itself. CECRA has also prepared a survey aimed at national associations of workshops in different countries to adhere to the complaint by Spanish organisations. This is intended to support the transnational nature of abusive practices and their impact on EU cross-border trade, which is in breach of Article 102 of the TFEU.