The Competition Tribunal partially accepted a lawsuit by the National Economic Prosecutor’s Office, fining the liquid oxygen companies AGA S.A., Air Liquide Chile S.A., Indura S.A. and Praxair Chile S.A.. The Tribunal considered that these companies incurred in a coordinated conduct, with the objective of sabotaging a public tender to provide public hospitals with liquid oxygen in 2004.
On January 22, 2007, the Supreme Court rendered the Competition Tribunal’s ruling ineffective, annulling the imposed fines.