In recognition of the March 29 ICN Roundtable on Enforcement Cooperation, ICNBlog encourages you to revisit existing ICN work on cooperation: — Cartel Working Group report: Cooperation Between Competition Agencies in Cartel Investigations — Merger Working Group report: Waivers of Confidentiality in Merger Investigations — Merger Working Group RP: Recommended Practices for Merger Notification […]

  See information from the recent 10th OECD Global Forum on Competition here, including notes and written contributions.

  Next month, the 10th OECD Global Forum on Competition will be held at the OECD Conference Centre in Paris on 17-18 February. The Forum will focus on Cross-Border Merger Control and Crisis Cartels. An OECD Report on Egypt’s Competition Law and Policy will also be discussed. The agenda and written contributions are available here.

  Presentations and information from Chile’s 2010 Competition Day, held on November 4, are available here.  The panels addressed the competition assessment of regulations and competition in small economies.

  In November, the Office for the Protection of Competition of the Czech Republic hosted its St. Martin Conference focusing on recent trends and developments in competition law and policy. Speaker presentations on topics including due process and economics are available here.

  A Competition Day on ‘Private Enforcement’ was organised in October under the auspices of the Belgian Presidency of the European Union. Representatives of consumers and industry, judges, the European Commission and competition practitioners exchanged views on the compensation of damages for breach of competition rules in the European Union. The presentations are available here.

  “The Pros and Cons of Standard Setting” was the theme of the Swedish Competition Authority’s international seminar in Stockholm on 12 November 2010. Ten invited speakers gave presentations on the topic. The presentations are available here. A report of the same name collects the five papers from the seminar and is available here.

  Papers and presentations from the recent UNCTAD conference on competition policy can be found here.