As a follow on to the June 30th blog post, here are several more links to agency annual reports for 2009/10.
France
Italy
UK Competition Commission
UK OFT
Poland
Luxembourg Conseil de la concurrence
Luxembourg l’Inspection de la concurrence
Switzerland
Slovak Republic
Lithuania
Turkey

 
The Danish Competition Authority recently released a report that identifies and quantifies the competition culture in Denmark, Germany, and the United Kingdom. The results are based on empirical data from a qualitative survey among more that two thousands firms and several thousands consumers. The report concludes that Danish firms have a potential to increase their [...]

 
Many competition agencies offer subscriptions to electronic newsletters or email alerts about their activities and news. Here are a few examples:
Portugal
Australia
European Union
Ireland
Poland
Ukraine
United Kingdom
Zambia
Sweden
South Africa

 
In 2005, the ICN Merger Working Group produced a report on Merger Remedies, compiling common aspects of member practice and illustrative case studies. The report is available here.
Last week, June 4, the New Zealand Commerce Commission released divestment guidelines for mergers. They are available here.
Other members that have published guidance on merger remedies include:
Canada, Information [...]

 
The UK Office of Fair Trading has published a report on ‘Drivers of Compliance and Non-compliance with Competition Law’, which presents findings from qualitative OFT research into what motivates businesses to comply with competition law and what businesses have found worked well in practice to achieve this. It also presents findings as to competition challenges [...]

 
The Advocacy Working Group has an ongoing work stream on market studies. Last year, the AWG produced a comparative report on the practice of market studies in 37 member jurisdictions, available here.
For this year’s annual conference, the AWG produced a “Market Studies Good Practice Handbook” and developed a “Market Studies Information Store.” The forthcoming information [...]

The Agency Effectiveness Working Group (AEWG) has prepared a handbook chapter on agency strategic planning and prioritization, addressing the objectives of strategic plans, the prerequisites of and constraints related to effective strategic planning, internal processes and external consultations, communication on strategic planning, and the use of prioritization criteria and the process of prioritization. The chapter [...]

 
This entry is first in a series of ten “Web Wednesdays”: each Wednesday we will highlight one aspect of competition agencies’ websites, showcasing how members address a particular issue, and highlighting relevant ICN work product on the topic.
Today’s posting highlights leniency application contact points.
The ICN’s Anti-Cartel Enforcement Manual Chapter on Drafting and Implementing an Effective [...]

 
From time to time, the ICN blog gets questions, and hopefully, provides some answers – but the questions are nowhere near the level of requests that competition agencies get for explanation of their policies and procedures. Today’s links are devoted to a specific kind of online tool agencies use to address basic, routine questions: “FAQs” [...]

 
This weekend the Academy Awards will be presented in Hollywood. Since the categories do not include a best antitrust film, the ICN Blog would like to draw your attention to some of the good (and entertaining) awareness and outreach work agencies are accomplishing via film and videos.
For our first nomination, see the Netherlands Competition Authority’s NMaMovie [...]