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, […]

  The Advocacy WG created a Market Studies Information Store to facilitate the sharing of knowledge and best practice on market studies.  The store identifies ICN members’ market studies experience in particular sectors to assist fellow ICN members with:    identifying issues for study the cross-fertilisation of ideas about market issues identifying approaches to particular […]

  The Austrian Competition Authority launched this past June its own space on Twitter under the pseudonym BWB_WETTBEWERB. You too can become a follower by clicking here. If other ICN members are out there Tweeting, be sure to let us know so we can blog about it. See our previous blog, here.

  The Antimonopoly Office of the Slovak Republic is interested in setting up a flexible and effective system of concentrations assessment, and is looking to benefit from others’ practical experience and opinions in the field. They welcome your opinions and suggestions, which could “help to make the system of concentrations assessment more effective, eventually, could […]

  As the tenth anniversary of the Network is approaching, a new project, “Planning for ICN’s Second Decade”, was launched at the ICN Annual Conference in Istanbul, to determine where the ICN stands and in which direction it should go in the forthcoming years, including identifying its main successes and challenges. A large consultation process […]

  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 Report on Interrelations Between Antitrust and […]

  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 2005 Merger Remedies Review Report provides […]

  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 Antitrust Enforcement in Regulated Sectors Working […]

  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 […]

  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. Opening speech of the 4th ICN Annual […]