Some of the best competition that world football has to offer is on display in South Africa this month. In honour of the on the field competition and South Africa’s hospitality (its agencies played host to the 2006 ICN Annual Conference), we celebrate the South African Competition Commission and South African Competition Tribunal with […]

  The American Bar Association (ABA) is hosting a brown bag teleseminar about the ICN. On Thursday, June 10, 2010 at 12:00 PM Eastern (Washington DC time) join the ABA teleconference to hear the experts assess the International Competition Policy Advisory Committee (ICPAC) Report on its tenth year anniversary and discuss its most celebrated outcome, the […]

  Next year will mark the International Competition Network’s tenth anniversary. To plan for our second decade, the ICN wants to consult with all ICN members, NGAs, and interested observers. What works? What doesn’t? What topics should we be addressing? Should we be doing more workshops, or creating more best practices, or preparing comparative reports? […]

  Using the media is an effective way to educate the public. If people see the benefits of competition authorities’ actions in the media, they will gain a better understanding of the role competition policy plays. Here is a presentation of “A Reporter’s View on Covering Competition Policy” from the 2003 ICN Annual conference. This […]

  The executive summary of the work product adopted at the ICN annual conference last month is available here.

  The ICN Statement of Achievements was updated for the ICN annual conference last month. To see it, click here.

  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 […]

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 […]

The Russian Federal Antimonopoly Service (FAS) has a unique way of publicizing its involvement in the ICN – press releases. Here are a few recent examples of how FAS has gotten the word out about its ICN involvement: ICN cartel call series on criminalization ICN Steering Group meeting ICN annual conference ICN advocacy teleseminar

  All you ever wanted to know about the ICN, and perhaps more, is available here. This presentation provides an introduction to the ICN. The first 25 slides present a general overview of the ICN and all of its working groups, followed in slides 27-86  with detailed information about each of the current working groups. If you’re […]