“When markets don’t work – is policy or the private sector to blame?”
Tuesday 27 July 2010 at 13:00-14:30 (GMT+01 (BST))
Speakers:
Karen Ellis – Head of Business and Development Programme, ODI
Rohit Singh – Research Officer, Business and Development Programme, ODI
Discussants:- Chief Economist, DFID
Alan Winters
Chilufya Sampa – Director for Mergers and Monopolies, Zambian Competition Commission
A major ODI [...]

 
The 9th ICN Annual Conference will be held from 27 to 29 of April 2010 as announced earlier. Today, the ICN Steering Group held a meeting and discussed the impact of current volcanic ash problem on international flights and decided that THE CONFERENCE WILL BE HELD on the agreed dates.

 
ICNBlog welcomes one of the newest jurisdictions to enact a competition
law – Seychelles. On April 5, the Fair Competition Act came into effect
in Seychelles, to be enforced by the Fair Trading Commission. For more
information on the new law and agency, click here, here, here, and here.

 
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 rules, [...]

 
For those of you who still can’t get enough of antitrust, below are more competition policy related blogs submitted by a reader, Julie Clarke. She also sent along her netvibe, see here.
Australian Competition Law and Policy (from Julie Clarke, Deakin University)
Antitrust Today (from Constantine Cannon LLP)
Antitrust Law Blog (from Sheppard Mullin)
Antitrust Lawyer Blog (from Doyle, [...]

 
Last month, the ICN Steering Group received a cease and desist notice from the International Congress of Nurses for using its name (ICN) without consent. After much discussion, the Steering Group has decided to change the network’s name to the “Global Competition Network” or GCN. With 112 members from 99 jurisdictions, the name change will [...]

 
Today is the second installment of “Web Wednesdays”: each Wednesday we highlight one aspect of competition agencies’ websites, showcasing how members address a particular issue as well as relevant ICN work product on the topic.
ICN’s Anti-Cartel Enforcement Manual chapter on Cartel Case Initiation notes that “to encourage disclosure of cartel activities, agencies widely publicise methods [...]

 
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 here. Registration closes April [...]

 
From time to time, the ICN blog gets questions, and hopefully, provides some answers – but the questions are nowhere near the level of requests that competition agencies get for explanation of their policies and procedures. Today’s links are devoted to a specific kind of online tool agencies use to address basic, routine questions: “FAQs” [...]

 
For those of you who can’t get enough of antitrust blogs, we did a quick review of other competition policy related blogs, and below are the results. We welcome additions, please send to: icn@ftc.gov.   
English Language
Antitrust and Competition Policy Blog, Daniel Sokol, University of Florida
Antitrust Review, Hanno Kaiser, David Fischer and
Manfred Gabriel
Chillin’ Competition, Nicolas Petit
Competition Policy Blog, University of [...]