The International Competition Network and the World Bank Group are pleased to announce the launch of the 2015 Competition Advocacy Contest, which follows the successful experience of the first joint edition in 2014. The general topic of the Contest is “How to Build a Culture of Competition for Private Sector Development and Economic Growth”. We […]

  Be sure to read this month’s ICN column in Competition Policy International by Alessandra Tonazzi and Michele Pacillo from the Italian Competition Authority on the ICN’s advocacy workshop held last month in Rome.

  Eduardo Pérez Motta, ICN Chair and Chairman of the Mexican Federal Competition Commission, wrote Competition Policy International’s latest ICN column. Recognizing the important role competition agencies can having in increasing the visibility of competition policy among economic policy makers, Pérez Motta’s article focuses on the ICN’s newest project, guidance for competition agencies on competition […]

  The ICN 2012 Advocacy Workshop, hosted by the Autorité de la concurrence in Paris on October 26-27, was a huge success. The workshop gathered more than 120 participants from 50 different jurisdictions.   For those unable to attend, the workshop addressed substantial policy issues – most notably regarding advocacy to government – with a […]

Dear ICN community, Today is the ICN’s 11th anniversary. I thought I would celebrate the occasion by providing a brief update on current ICN initiatives. This fall we are also celebrating the 10th anniversary of the ICN’s first recommended practices. We should be proud of ICN’s accomplishments in developing and adopting these international norms. A […]

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 […]

  The second edition of the Fair Competition Commission’s online newsletter is available, including an article about recent FCC advocacy efforts at 4-5.  In additional Tanzanian news, the Tanzania Fair Competition Tribunal has become the ICN’s 123rd member. ICNBlog welcomes the FCT!

  Explaining the benefits of competition is a challenge for many competition agencies, particularly younger agencies. Strategies and approaches on how better to explain the benefits of competition to a variety of stakeholders, including the media, legislators, government, public authorities, business, and the general public, as well as how to evaluate, measure and present effects […]

  The 8th Baltic Regional Competition Conference was recently held in Lithuania at Vilnius University. Presentations on topics including “Setting Enforcement Priorities” and “Advocacy and Competition Compliance” are available.

  The ICN Advocacy Working Group is pleased to invite you to attend a teleseminar on competition advocacy in the transportation sector on Thursday, December 16, at: 08:00-09:30 (Washington, D.C. — Eastern Standard Time) 14:00-15:30 (Brussels — Central European Time) 22:00-23:30 (Tokyo — Japan Standard Time).  In this session, speakers from Bulgaria, Russia, Spain, the […]