The Advocacy Working Group is pleased to announce that a new advocacy postings facility has gone live on the ICN website – click here.  ICN member agencies and NGAs are encouraged to post information on their advocacy activities, relevant speeches and articles, and any advocacy issues they may wish to discuss.  <HR>

  OFT recently published a review of entry, expansion, and exit barriers in retail banking. OFT launched the study in May 2010 to identify obstacles blocking firms from entering the sector or from successfully competing against existing firms, as well as factors preventing inefficient firms from exiting the market and being replaced by more efficient […]

  Please do send in your responses to the Advocacy Working Group’s questionnaire on the Draft Market Studies Good Practice Handbook if you haven’t already done so. The AWG welcomes your feedback and there will be a teleconference in December to discuss the results. Also your answers will feed in to the work to finalize […]

  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 […]

  For Member Agencies interested in finding out more about what the Working Groups have planned for the coming year, now is an excellent time to get involved as most projects for 2010-11 are in their initial stages.   Here is a list of who to contact to join a Working Group or find out […]

  As part of the preparations for the ICN’s tenth anniversary, the ICN Working Groups prepared long term vision statements to outline what they want to accomplish over the next three to five years. These long term plans are available on the ICN’s website as follows: Advocacy Working Group Agency Effectiveness Working Group Cartel Working […]

  The World Bank is preparing a publication for policymakers about the benefits of competition. They are compiling examples from a variety of jurisdictions and in particular Bank recipient countries, and hope the report can serve as a useful reference to promote the benefits of competition and general outreach. The report will be based on […]

  The Competition Commission of Pakistan (CCP) held an international conference on May 11th and 12th to address the challenges of implementing competition laws in developing countries. The CCP organized this conference in Lahore, Pakistan to share country practices in drafting, enforcing, and advocating for competition laws, as well as to create closer cooperation among […]

  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 […]

As one of its first projects, the ICN recognized the importance of competition advocacy “in fostering competitive markets and promoting social welfare” in its 2002 Advocacy and Competition Policy report. In 2009, the ICN revisited members’ competition advocacy efforts in this report. Today’s links illustrate how some agencies present and publicize their competition advocacy work. […]