The MWG co-chairs would like to remind you that the Competition Commission of India will host the 10th ICN Merger Workshop on “International Cooperation and Remedies in Merger Review”, in New Delhi, India from Monday December 1st until Tuesday December 2nd 2014 at the Ashok Hotel, New Delhi. On the website http://icnmwgdelhi2014.in/, you will find […]

  The Competition Bureau (Canada) recently announced that it will host a series of roundtables to discuss the merits of revising the Bureau’s Merger Enforcement Guidelines.  The purpose of the roundtables will be to assess whether the guidelines accurately reflect the Bureau’s current merger review practices, as well as other legal and economic developments, including […]

  CARTEL WORKSHOP October 5-7, 2010 Yokohama, Japan  The Japan Fair Trade Commission will host the 7th annual ICN cartel workshop. The theme of this year’s workshop is the efficient detection, investigation and punishment of cartel conduct – making the best use of agency resources.  Contact the workshop host here.   MERGER WORKSHOP November 3-4, […]

  The Antimonopoly Office of the Slovak Republic is interested in setting up a flexible and effective system of concentrations assessment, and is looking to benefit from others’ practical experience and opinions in the field. They welcome your opinions and suggestions, which could “help to make the system of concentrations assessment more effective, eventually, could […]

  This week, ICNBlog opens up the ICN’s ‘treasure trove’ of work product to showcase some of the topics presented five years ago at the 2005 ICN Annual Conference, hosted by the German Bundeskartellamt in Bonn, Germany.  Each day, ICNBlog presents different links from the 2005 work product. The 2005 Merger Remedies Review Report provides […]

  For Member Agencies interested in finding out more about what the Working Groups have planned for the coming year, now is an excellent time to get involved as most projects for 2010-11 are in their initial stages.   Here is a list of who to contact to join a Working Group or find out […]

  As part of the preparations for the ICN’s tenth anniversary, the ICN Working Groups prepared long term vision statements to outline what they want to accomplish over the next three to five years. These long term plans are available on the ICN’s website as follows: Advocacy Working Group Agency Effectiveness Working Group Cartel Working […]

  In 2005, the ICN Merger Working Group produced a report on Merger Remedies, compiling common aspects of member practice and illustrative case studies. The report is available here. Last week, June 4, the New Zealand Commerce Commission released divestment guidelines for mergers. They are available here. Other members that have published guidance on merger […]

The Federal Trade Commission and the Antitrust Division of the U.S. Department of Justice released for public comment a proposed revision of the Horizontal Merger Guidelines. See here. Public comments are being accepted until June 4, 2010. The updated Guidelines outline how the federal antitrust agencies evaluate the likely competitive impact of mergers and whether […]

  Today, 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 […]