The ICN Agency Effectiveness Working Group will hold an interactive workshop designed for agency heads and top-level management. The workshop will address the key elements of a well-functioning competition agency and provide competition agencies with ideas, tools, procedures and best practices that can help them enhance their effectiveness.  Sessions will cover strategic planning and priority […]

The MWG co-chairs would like to remind you that the Competition Commission of India will host the 10th ICN Merger Workshop on “International Cooperation and Remedies in Merger Review”, in New Delhi, India from Monday December 1st until Tuesday December 2nd 2014 at the Ashok Hotel, New Delhi. On the website http://icnmwgdelhi2014.in/, you will find […]

The Competition Commission of Mauritius will host the third ICN Advocacy Workshop on “Advocacy: Foundation, Strategies and Assessment”, in Mauritius on the 6th and 7th November 2014 at the InterContinental, Balaclava. On the website http://icnadvocacy2014.ccm.mu/English/Pages/default.aspx, you will find relevant information about the Workshop, including travelling and accommodation details and the Workshop Programme. Online registration will […]

Read a perspective from the FTC on the recent ICN Roundtable on Investigative Process.

  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.

Reminder: the Competition Commission South Africa is the host of the upcoming 2013 ICN Cartel Workshop from 16 – 18 October 2013. During the three-day workshop, discussions will focus on strategies to tackle road blocks to effective cartel enforcement. More information about the workshop go to: www.icncartel2013.co.za Follow workshop developments on Twitter at: https://twitter.com/ICNcartelSA2013

The Swedish Competition Authority is hosting the 2013 ICN Workshop on Unilateral Conduct in Stockholm on 17-18 September 2013 The ICN Unilateral Conduct Working Group is holding a regional workshop in Stockholm designed to promote greater understanding of the group’s work on exclusive dealing and the analysis of dominance/substantial market power. Using a hypothetical case […]

Registration is open for the 2013 ICN Cartel Workshop, held in Cape Town, South Africa from October 16 to 18. For more information, please see the workshop website.

  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 […]

  The ICN Unilateral Conduct Working Group will hold a regional workshop in Singapore on July 24-25, 2012, designed to promote greater understanding of the ICN’s Recommended Practices on the analysis of dominance/substantial market power and the group’s work on exclusive dealing.  Using a hypothetical exclusive dealing case scenario, roundtable discussions, and small group breakout […]