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Cartel Workshop materials

November 15th, 2014

Presentations and other materials from the 2014 ICN Cartel Workshop hosted by the Taiwan Fair Trade Commission are available here.

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 […]

The deadline for members to register for the 2011 ICN Cartel Workshop has been extended to September 13, 2011.  You can register online.

2011 ICN Cartel Workshop

August 2nd, 2011

  The website for the ICN Cartel Workshop 2011 is up, with information on the program, venue, and registration. The workshop is hosted by the European Commission, October 10-13.

Registration Deadline

September 8th, 2010

  Reminder: the registration deadline for the 2010 ICN Cartel Workshop is this Friday, September 17, 2010. If you wish to participate, please register online at your earliest opportunity through the workshop website, here.

  CARTEL WORKSHOP October 5-7, 2010 Yokohama, Japan  The Japan Fair Trade Commission will host the 7th annual ICN cartel workshop. The theme of this year’s workshop is the efficient detection, investigation and punishment of cartel conduct – making the best use of agency resources.  Contact the workshop host here.   MERGER WORKSHOP November 3-4, […]

ICN Treasure Trove: Day 2

August 10th, 2010

  This week, ICNBlog opens up the ICN’s ‘treasure trove’ of work product to showcase some of the topics presented five years ago at the 2005 ICN Annual Conference, hosted by the German Bundeskartellamt in Bonn, Germany.  Each day, ICNBlog presents different links from the 2005 work product.  The Cartel Working Group report “Building Blocks […]

Firsts: leniency application

August 5th, 2010

  The Chilean competition agency, the FNE, just released a press release announcing that it is instituting proceedings against multinational companies for participating in a cartel for refrigerator compressors. The investigation is the first that was based on a leniency application, after the 2009 amendments that introduced the leniency program. For more information, see the […]

  The Competition Authority in Ireland recently evaluated its Cartel Immunity Programme and international developments in the area of leniency and now proposes to make certain changes. In its own words: “These changes attempt to make the Cartel Immunity Programme more self-contained, transparent and attractive to potential applicants, therefore making it a more effective tool […]

2010 ICN Cartel Workshop

July 26th, 2010

The 2010 ICN Cartel Workshop website is live, here.