The Office of Fair Trading (OFT) and Competition Commission (CC) have today for the first time published joint Merger Assessment Guidelines (pdf 710kb).  The guidelines are designed to assist companies and their advisers by providing greater clarity on how the competitive impact of mergers is assessed. <HR>

  On TUESDAY, APRIL 13, 2010 at 8:00-9:30 Washington DC time, 14:00-15:30 Brussels time, the ICN Merger Working Group will host a teleseminar and webinar, TOOLS FOR CHANGE. Participants will present brief case studies on the role the ICN and its resources have played in helping member agencies and their governments enact changes to their merger […]

  Dear ICN community, Welcome to the ICN’s quarterly update. In this message I am pleased to provide brief updates of the ICN activity for the last three months. Annual Conference The Turkish competition authority (TCA) has graciously offered to host the annual conference which will take place in Istanbul on April 27-29, 2010, click […]

  2010 is the Year of the Workshop. ICN is holding a seminar on agency effectiveness for agency heads on July 12 and 13 in London, England. The annual cartel workshop will be held from October 4 – 7 in Yokohama, Japan, and the Unilateral Conduct Working Group will hold a workshop on December 2 […]

The complete set of 13 ICN Recommended Practices on Merger Notification & Review Procedures (RPs) were adopted five years ago. More than half of ICN members with merger control have made or proposed changes that bring their merger regimes into closer conformity with the RPs. The Practices have served as an impetus for legislative and […]

  The ICN is running a two part teleseminar program on remedies in February and March 2010. The first teleseminar, presented by the Merger Working Group on merger remedies, will take place on February 10 from 8am to 9.30am EST and will be presented by the UK Competition Commission and the UK Office of Fair […]