Italy’s AGCM Annual Report to Parliament: “increased competition to emerge from the crisis and resume growth.”

On 19-20 March 2015 the Italian Competition Authority and the World Intellectual Property Organization jointly organized an “International Conference on Intellectual Property and Competition in the Pharmaceutical Industry” on the premises of the Authority in Rome. Materials are available here.

The Italian Competition Authority re-launches its “Temi e Problemi” working paper series, which host contributions from the Authority staff on antitrust and consumer protection matters. In this issue, the economist Notaro applies a number of empirical methods to the pasta cartel, uncovered by the Italian Competition Authority in 2007. The paper contributes to the on-going […]

  UPDATE: Italy As mentioned in ICNBlog in January, in 2009-2010, the Italian Competition Authority, in cooperation with the Ministry of Education, developed an education initiative for schools aimed at fostering a culture of competition and consumer protection. Now, a second edition of the “I Won’t Bite” project is underway for 2011.

  DAY 4 – Italy In 2009-2010, the Italian Competition Authority, in cooperation with the Ministry of Education, developed an education initiative for schools aimed at fostering a culture of competition and consumer protection. The comics and the documentation prepared for the initiative are available here.

  As a follow on to the June 30th blog post, here are several more links to agency annual reports for 2009/10. France Italy UK Competition Commission UK OFT Poland Luxembourg Conseil de la concurrence Luxembourg l’Inspection de la concurrence Switzerland Slovak Republic Lithuania Turkey

  To help promote access to information about ICN members’ procedures, the ICN has two existing “Template” projects – one for merger enforcement and one for anti-cartel enforcement. Each collection of templates from participating member jurisdictions is a unique resource of practical information about competition rules and agency procedures from around the world. To find […]