Want to know more about the MWG? Don’t miss the Welcoming Call on Nov 7, 2013.  The Merger Working Group (MWG) invites you to the teleseminar on Nov 7, 2013. The Competition Commission of India, together with the other co-chair of the MWG, will welcome you and guide you through the main MWG activities […]

  Through the ICN’s Advocacy and Implementation Network Support Program (AISUP), ICN members can seek advice about specific ICN work products or receive assistance on how ICN recommendations and other guidance documents can be implemented within their jurisdictions. A flyer about AISUP is available here. For more information including the participation form, see here or […]

  The Spanish CNC recently published Guidelines on short-form notification of mergers, describing which type of concentrations are eligible for short-form notification to the CNC.

  The ICN is a “treasure trove” of work product created in the areas of anti-cartel enforcement, mergers, unilateral conduct, advocacy, agency effectiveness, capacity building, and regulated sectors.  This treasure trove includes recommended practices, case handling manuals, reports, templates on laws and rules in member jurisdictions, and toolkits.  Click here to view ICN Work Product […]

  The Advocacy WG created a Market Studies Information Store to facilitate the sharing of knowledge and best practice on market studies.  The store identifies ICN members’ market studies experience in particular sectors to assist fellow ICN members with:    identifying issues for study the cross-fertilisation of ideas about market issues identifying approaches to particular […]

  All you ever wanted to know about the ICN, and perhaps more, is available here. This presentation provides an introduction to the ICN. The first 25 slides present a general overview of the ICN and all of its working groups, followed in slides 27-86  with detailed information about each of the current working groups. If you’re […]

  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 […]

  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 […]

  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 […]

  The ICN continues to create an impressive array of work product, including handbooks, manuals, comparative reports, and recommended practices. Through the Advocacy and Implementation Network Support Program (AISUP), ICN members can seek advice about specific ICN work products or receive assistance on how ICN recommendations and other guidance documents might be implemented within their […]