The Irish Competition Authority has published its 2010 Annual Report. Of particular note, see pages 9-11 for a section with effective messages describing “The Benefits of Competition” and a description of the authority’s ICN work at pages 53-54.

  Day 5 – ICNBlog! ICNBlog encourages posts from member agencies. If your agency would like to post a recent speech, case, policy announcement, report, guidelines, advocacy effort or just about anything of relevance to ICN members, please send us a note. To post an item, email ICNBlog.

  Day 4 – Advocacy postings The ICN Competition Advocacy Toolkit Posting Section is intended to enable ICN member agencies and non-governmental advisers (NGAs) to post their notes, articles, pronouncements, statements, and messages on competition advocacy matters on the ICN web-site for wider discussion by the ICN membership, NGAs, competition professionals, scholars, and the general […]

  Day 3 – Merger & Anti-Cartel templates The Merger and Cartel Working Groups have developed ‘templates’ to promote access to information about members’ enforcement regimes. The merger templates highlight important features of merger review systems, such as notification thresholds and review periods. The cartel templates cover a range of topics, including the process for […]

  Day 2 – Market Studies Information Store The Advocacy Working Group created a market studies information store for the ICN website, with the aim of sharing knowledge and best practices on market studies. The information store contains details of market studies conducted by ICN members over 5 years ending in December 2009, which ICN […]

  Over the next few days, ICNBlog will run a series of posts highlighting ICN online resources. Day 1 – Cartel Awareness Materials As part of a project on cartel awareness, the Cartel Working Group has collected examples of public messages and materials used in cartel-related outreach efforts. The purpose of this collection is to […]

  The Canadian Competition Bureau has announced plans to revise its Merger Enforcement Guidelines.

  The website for the Taiwan Fair Trade Commission includes an interactive section and virtual classroom for kids to learn more about competition and the FTC.

  Read a speech on “Cross-border merger control in Japan” given by JFTC Commissioner Akira Goto at the recent Global Forum on Competition.