The Market Competition topic measures good practices related to the enforcement of competition policy, intellectual property rights and innovation policy, and regulations that focus on improving competition and innovation in markets where the government is a purchaser of services or goods across the three different pillars. The first pillar assesses the quality of regulations that promote market competition, covering de jure features of a regulatory framework that enable firms to participate in fair market conditions and innovate, and where firms can participate in open and competitive government markets. The second pillar measures the adequacy of public services that promote market competition, thus assessing the de facto provision of services that create an equal level playing field in markets, and that foster and promote innovation. The third pillar measures the operational efficiency in the implementation of key services promoting market competition (reflecting both the ease of compliance with the regulatory framework and the effective provision of public services directly relevant to firms that contribute in practice to the promotion of market competition). Each pillar is divided into categories—defined by common features that inform the grouping into a particular category—and each category is further divided into subcategories. Each subcategory has several indicators, each of which may, in turn, have several components. Relevant points are assigned to each indicator and subsequently aggregated to obtain the number of points for each subcategory, category, and pillar.
Latest Score: 2024

# | Description | Value |
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1 | Time to comply with documentary requirements and file a notification to the Competition Authority (days) | 30 |
2 | Time needed for the Competition Authority to review and clear a transaction (days) | 0 |
3 | Market share of the largest competitor, excluding firms whose main market is international | 68 |
4 | Index of change of level of competition over last year | 82 |
5 | Percent of firms that cannot increase prices more than competitors without losing customers | 73 |
6 | Index of difficulty to switch internet providers | 68 |
7 | Percent of firms reporting less than two competitors on their main product's main market (%) | 3 |
8 | Percent of firms reporting between two and five (inclusive) competitors on their main product's main market (%) | 11 |
9 | Percent of firms reporting more than five competitors on their main product's main market (%) | 86 |
10 | Percent of firms reporting their price to be regulated (%) | 22 |
11 | Time to complete a procurement of a works contract in an open procedure (days) | 90 |
12 | Time to complete the procurement of a services contract in a restricted procedure with limited competition (days) | 45 |
13 | Time to complete the prequalification of supplier (days) | 38 |
14 | Time to complete an electronic auction (days) | 7 |
15 | Time to complete a Framework agreement with a competitive second stage (days) | 30 |
16 | Time to receive payment under govt contract (days) | 132 |
17 | Perceptions of the degree of difficulty to comply with government contract tender requirements | 36 |
18 | Percent of firms owned or managed by women among those that held a government contract in last 3 years (%) | 42 |
19 | Percent of firms that introduced a new product/service and process over last 3 years, and spent on R&D over last fiscal year (excluding small firms) (%) | 6 |
20 | Percent of firms with internationally recognized quality certification (%) | 8 |
Detailed Score for each Pillar - Year 2024
Regulatory Framework
Public Service
Operational Efficiency
Regulatory Framework
The first pillar assesses the quality of regulations that promote market competition, covering de jure features of a regulatory framework that enable firms to participate in fair market conditions and innovate, and where firms can participate in open and competitive government markets.
Public Services
The second pillar measures the adequacy of public services that promote market competition, thus assessing the de facto provision of services that create an equal level playing field in markets, and that foster and promote innovation.
Operational Efficiency
This pillar measures the operational efficiency in the implementation of key services promoting market competition (reflecting both the ease of compliance with the regulatory framework and the effective provision of public services directly relevant to firms that contribute in practice to the promotion of market competition).