The Newcastle Law School will be holding a competition conference,  BIS Consultation on a Competition Regime for Growth: One Year On April 13, 2012 from 9:30 A.M. – 5:00 P.M. This conference provides a forum for advancing debate and developing a deeper cross disciplinary understanding of the effectiveness of key aspects of the current UK […]

The Academic Society for Competition Law (ASCOLA) will hold its Seventh Conference on “State-Initiated Restraints of Competition” at Mackenzie University Sao Paulo on April 12-14, 2012. The conference will also be open to representatives of the ICN member agencies. Further accessed at the ASCOLA website at: http://www.ascola.org/meetings.html

Submissions (full papers or abstracts may be sent together with the author’s contact details to: ACLE@uva.nl. For more details on submitting papers, please read the ACLE’s notice. For more information on the conference, please visit the ACLE conference website.

The Seventh International Conference on Competition and Regulation (CRESSE) will take place in Chania (Crete), Greece from July 6-8, 2012. The conference theme will be “Advances in the Analysis of Competition Policy and Regulation.” The deadline for paper submissions is March 30, 2012. Full details can be found here as well as at the conference website.

  ICC Hosts its 4th Roundtable on Competition on 16 April 2012 in Rio de Janeiro. More information is available at http://www.iccwbo.org/policy/competition/id3059/index.html

  On October 10th, an international conference devoted to the 20th Anniversary of the antimonopoly authority of the Republic of Kazakhstan was held in Almaty.  The speeches and presentations of participants on topics such as cartels and competition advocacy have been posted. Happy anniversary to the Antimonopoly Agency!

  As part of its series this year to mark the 20th anniversary of the establishment of the Bulgarian Commission on Protection of Competition, on November 15th 2011 the CPC hosts a Jubilee Competition Day under the theme “Current Trends and Priorities of Competition Policy”. Congratulations to the CPC on 20 years!

  In August, the Honduran CDPC organized the “Semana de la Libre Competencia en Honduras”. Presentations from the event are available

Earlier this month, the Antimonopoly Office of the Slovak Republic hosted an international conference on the occasion of the 20th anniversary of the application of competition rules in the Slovak Republic. Happy 20 years to the AMO!

All ICN officials and NGAs are encouraged to help IDRC evaluate the impact of its series of Pre-ICN meetings.   Simply copy and paste into your internet browser: (http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/9TQHXFL). It should only take 15-20 minutes to complete.  The deadline is 31 October 2011. Whether you have attended these meetings, or have views on their impact, on […]