Last week ACCC Chairman Rod Sims presented on delivering prosperity through broad based microeconomic and competition reform at the 2013 Foro Mexico, organized by the Inter-American Development Bank, the World Bank, the OECD, and UNCTAD. Chairman Sims offers a concise and comprehensive account of the amazing success of Australia’s National Competition Policy reform program. […]

Poland’s Office of Competition and Consumer Protection is now hosting the Second International Competition Law Forum in Warsaw today and tomorrow.  During the opening address, both Vice President of the European Commission Joaquin Almunia and ICN Chair Eduardo Perez Motta highlighted the importance of increasing the visibility of, and focus on, competition policy. The speeches […]

  At the International Bar Association’s 16th Annual Competition Conference last week, ICN’s new Steering Group chair, Eduardo Pérez Motta, gave a talk on the ICN’s role in promoting convergence. The text of his speech “International Best Practice: ICN’s Role in Creating and Diffusing Norms” is available here.

  European Commission Vice President Joaquín Alumnia spoke on the Policy Objectives of Merger Control at the recent Fordham Competition Conference in New York.

  Steering Group Chair John Fingleton gave a speech entitled ‘The ICN’s Vision for its Second Decade‘ at the recent ICN Annual Conference 2011.

  Joaquín Almunia, Vice President of the European Commission responsible for Competition Policy, made these remarks at the ICN Unilateral Conduct Workshop today.

  The Director General of the Swedish Competition Authority has posted his remarks from the recent ICN Cartel Workshop regarding the resolution of cartel cases.  The remarks can be found here.

Implications of the Financial Meltdown for the Federal Trade Commission, J. Thomas Rosch, Commissioner, US Federal Trade Commission, January 2009 Roundtable of UK Competition Commission Members and eminent external participants to discuss competition in the recession, March 2009 The world turn’d upside down, Peter Freeman, Chairman of the UK Competition Commission, May 2009 Vigorous Antitrust […]