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Viviana Chavez

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Viviana is a senior associate and has extensive experience in competition law, with experience in advising companies on matters related with the application of the antitrust law, unfair competition law, and consumer protection law. Viviana has participated in several administrative procedures before the Free Competition Commission, the Unfair Competition Commission, the Consumer Protection Commission, and the Elimination of Bureaucratic Barriers Commission and before the Competition Court of the National Institute of Competition Defense and Protection of Industrial Property (INDECOPI). Viviana also has experience in data privacy matters, having advised several companies on their implementation to such legal framework.

On 18 May 2024, Law No. 32032 was published. It amends Article 66, which regulates the guarantees of protection for public services users established in Law No. 29571 (Code of Consumer Protection and Defense), incorporating subparagraph 66.10. The purpose of Law No. 32032 is to facilitate and simplify the procedure through which consumers may request the temporary suspension, temporary cancellation or cancellation of water, electricity and other public services. 

On 2 May 2024, the Draft Regulation of Law No. 31814, that promotes the use of artificial intelligence in favor of the economic and social development of the country, and which aims to establish the conditions that guarantee the development and responsible use of artificial intelligence (AI), was published for comments.

The Superintendence of Banking, Insurance and Private Pension Fund Administrators (SBS) published SBS Resolution No. 00511-2023, which approves the procedure to carry out the prior control of concentration operations involving companies of the financial or insurance system, within the framework of Law No. 31112, the law that establishes the prior control of corporate concentration operations, and its regulations.

On 24 October 2022, the National Authority for the Protection of Personal Data approved a Guide to the International Transfer of Personal Data. According to articles 11 and 15 of Law No. 29733, Personal Data Protection Act, international transfer of personal data can only be carried out when a sufficient level of protection of personal data is guaranteed in the recipient country.