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  The 8th Baltic Regional Competition Conference was recently held in Lithuania at Vilnius University. Presentations on topics including “Setting Enforcement Priorities” and “Advocacy and Competition Compliance” are available.

Papers on the  Fifth Annual Competition Law, Economics & Policy Conference in South Africa taking place this week are available here.

BRICS conference

September 23rd, 2011

  The second BRICS International Competition Conference is taking place in Beijing this week.  For more information, see here.  

Updates: Latin America

September 22nd, 2011

  The ninth meeting of the Latin American Competition Forum was held last week in Bogota, Colombia, hosted by the Superintendencia. Documents and presentations are available here.

Updates: UNCTAD

July 19th, 2011

  The eleventh session of UNCTAD’s intergovernmental group of experts on competition law and policy takes place this week, the program, documents and other information are available online.

Mergers – Europe

July 12th, 2011

  Presentations from the European Competition Authorities annual meeting, 5-6 July in Warsaw, are available. The topic was “Multijurisdictional mergers in Europe”.

Emerging economies

June 17th, 2011

  The University of Amsterdam’s Amsterdam Center for Law & Economics recently hosted a conference on Competition Policy for Emerging Economies: When and How?. Conference papers and conference presentations are available online.

  Academic Society for Competition Law (ASCOLA) will hold its sixth conference  “New Competition Jurisdictions: Shaping Policies and Building Institutions” on 1-2 July 2011, at King’s College, London.  The program features sessions on 1) Institutional Challenges and Choices: Deterrence; 2) The Global Perspective; 3) Challenges and Obstacles in Adopting Competition Laws; and  4) Discussion of […]

  The seiminar on Multijurisdictional mergers in Europe – legal regulations and administrative practice will be held by the Office of Competition and Consumer Protection on 5 July 2011 in Warsaw.  Multijurisdictional mergers involve competition authorities of several countries working in parallel on the same transaction. This can sometimes be a challenge both for competition […]

  The International Chamber of Commerce will hold a roundtable on competition and innovation policy in The Hague on 21 May 2011. Intended to foster an open exchange among participants, the roundtable will focus on the role of competition policy in supporting innovation and economic growth and look into the implications which unilateral conduct could […]