Dear ICN community, Today is the ICN’s 11th anniversary. I thought I would celebrate the occasion by providing a brief update on current ICN initiatives. This fall we are also celebrating the 10th anniversary of the ICN’s first recommended practices. We should be proud of ICN’s accomplishments in developing and adopting these international norms. A […]

  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 ICN’s Working Group on Agency Effectiveness was formed in 2009 to address a variety of factors that influence the ability of competition agencies to achieve their objectives in an efficient and effective way, including, inter alia, strategic planning and prioritization, effective project delivery, knowledge management, and ex post evaluation. A new initiative of […]

  Dear ICN community, Welcome to the ICN’s quarterly update. In this message I am pleased to provide brief updates of the ICN activity for the last three months. Annual Conference The Turkish competition authority (TCA) has graciously offered to host the annual conference which will take place in Istanbul on April 27-29, 2010, click […]

  2010 is the Year of the Workshop. ICN is holding a seminar on agency effectiveness for agency heads on July 12 and 13 in London, England. The annual cartel workshop will be held from October 4 – 7 in Yokohama, Japan, and the Unilateral Conduct Working Group will hold a workshop on December 2 […]