The recordings of both ICN Town Hall Meetings are posted on the ICN website. The First Town Hall Meeting (“Looking Back & Looking Forward”) features  Steering Group incoming Chair Eduardo Pérez Motta and outgoing Chair John Fingleton discussing results of the ICN’s Second Decade and ways members can get more involved with the year’s work […]

January 18, 2013, marked the fifth anniversary of the CARICOM Competition Commission (CCC) headquartered in Paramaribo, Suriname. Established under Chapter VIII of the Revised Treaty of Chaguaramas, the CCC has a mandate to (a) apply the rules of competition, in respect of anti-competitive cross-border business conduct; and (b) promote and protect competition in the Community […]

The UK OFT recently published the findings of its call for information into the UK road fuel sector.

Dear All, Once again on 5th December (2012), World Competition Day (WCD) was celebrated based on a theme ‘Adverse Impact of Cartels on the Poor’, in an attempt to raise public understanding and awareness regarding the adverse impact of Cartels on the poor. All activities have been collated in a form of a presentation, which […]

On February 28, Joaquín Almunia, Vice-President of the European Commission and member responsible for Competition will welcome participants from governments and competition enforcement agencies, the business world, the legal and economic communities, for a debate about EU competition policy in the context of important wider economic issues for the EU. Link to the programme here.

The Hungarian Competition Authority (GVH) recently produced a detailed competition law compliance program to promote competition law compliance to companies. The initiative includes a website dedicated to competition law compliance issues.

The Finnish Competition Authority recently published a study on buying power in the trade in groceries, finding a need for further investigations into the practices of the trade. An abridged English version is available.

Last month, the Competition Commission of India held a round-table meeting with top Indian companies on the subject of “Competition Compliance for Good Corporate Governance”. CCI Chair, Ashok Chawla, made remarks.

Join us for the First ICN “Town Hall” Meeting of 2013 A New Year’s Resolution Wednesday, February 20, 2013 08:00– 09:00 (Ottawa) 14:00-15:00 (Brussels) It’s not too late to make your New Year’s Resolutions.  Join Bruno Lasserre, President, Autorité de la concurrence (France), and Andreas Mundt, President, Bundeskartellamt (Germany), for a town hall meeting on […]

The Fordham Competition Law Institute’s training center for antitrust/competition law officials, judges and policymakers is pleased to announce its course offering for 2013. Course for competition authority economists, June 24 to 28, FCLI will offer a one week course for economists from competition authorities, building on the success of previous economist courses. Through discussion and […]