What member serves as the ICN’s virtual secretariat? Answer to yesterday’s question:  The Network was launched on October 25, 2001, at the Fordham Corporate Law Institute’s annual international antitrust conference in New York City.  Fifteen agencies from fourteen jurisdictions formed the ICN that day. Today the ICN has 122  members from 108 jurisdictions.

  The Spanish CNC recently published Guidelines on short-form notification of mergers, describing which type of concentrations are eligible for short-form notification to the CNC.

  October 25th, 20011 will mark the 10th anniversary of the founding of the ICN. To celebrate that achievement, the ICNBlog will bring you 10 questions about ICN over 10 days.  Check back each day for more.  10 for 10 – #1  Where was the ICN founded and by how many agencies?

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 […]

  “CUTS urges countries and competition agencies worldwide to gear up for observing 5th December, once again this year as the World Competition Day. This is an occasion to propagate the benefits of competitive markets and harmful effects of anticompetitive behaviour to citizens, nationally. A suggested theme for 2011 is “Cartels and its harmful effects […]

  The European Commission has adopted a package of measures aimed at increasing interaction with parties in antitrust proceedings and strengthening the mechanisms for safeguarding parties’ procedural rights. FAQs on the practices are also available.

  The Belgian Competition Council has launched a public consultation on its proposal for new fining guidelines for the calculation of fines for restrictive practices. The deadline for comments is set on 16 November 2011.  The new Communication of the Competition Council on the calculation of fines should enter into force in the beginning of […]

On November 8, the ICN’s Unilateral Conduct Working Group will present a webinar on “Abuse of Dominance in the Energy Sector:   The EU experience.”  A representative from the European Commission will present an overview of antitrust enforcement in the energy sector followed by discussion of two case studies presented by the Italian and Spanish competition […]

  Alexander Italianer delivered remarks at the recent ICN Cartel Workshop entitled “Zero tolerance for international cartels”.

  The U.S. antitrust agencies and the European Commission issued an updated set of “best practices” (and accompanying FAQs) that they use to coordinate their merger reviews.  The agencies also celebrated the 20th anniversary of the United States-European Union bilateral antitrust agreement.