How many work products has the ICN produced? Answer to Yesterday’s Question:  All of them! The ICN’s mission is “to advocate the adoption of superior standards and procedures in competition enforcement and policy around the world, formulate proposals for procedural and substantive convergence, and seek to facilitate effective international cooperation to the benefit of […]

  Which of the following is part of the ICN’s Mission Statement?  to advocate the adoption of superior standards to formulate proposals for convergence to seek to facilitate effective cooperation Answer to Yesterday’s Question:  “All competition, all the time.” For more information on the ICN and how it operates, see the ICN Factsheet and Key […]

  CHEERS TO TEN YEARS!

  What is the unofficial motto used to describe the ICN’s work? Answer to Yesterday’s Question:  In its two years, the ICNBlog has included updates and information on 83 ICN members.   Send your updates and information to  ICNblog and we’ll be sure to blog about it.  Did you know? The ICNBlog, created in October 2009, celebrates […]

   How many members have been highlighted on the ICNBlog? Answer to Yesterday’s Question:  Since 2002, the ICN has organized 23 workshops in 17 jurisdictions. Those workshops have covered mergers, cartels, unilateral conduct, agency effectiveness, capacity building, and enforcement cooperation. Add to that the ICN’s ten annual conferences, and the ICN has organized 33 events […]

  How many workshops has the ICN held? Answers to Yesterday’s Question:  The Honourable Konrad W. von Finckenstein, former Commissioner of Competition at the Canadian Competition Bureau and now Chairman of the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission.  Distinguished list of additional past Chairs: Fernando Sanchez Ugarte (former Chair of the Mexican Comisión Federal de Competencia) […]

  Who was the ICN’s first Steering Group Chair? Answer to Yesterday’s Question:  The Canadian Competition Bureau – thanks/merci to the CCB for 10 years of keeping things running!

  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.

  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?

  As a virtual network, it may be a bit odd to think in terms of ICN history.  Next year, the ICN will celebrate its 10th anniversary.  Today’s blog takes a look back at a time – September/October 2000 – when the case for an international network was being discussed.  Ten years ago, in September […]