Last week Spain celebrated National Competition Days, with the theme Mercado Único y Competencia. Buena suerte para el CNC!

  The Spanish CNC has recently published a Guide on public procurement and competition in English – a practical-minded guide filled with examples and useful tips, described in a press release here.  

  The CNC recently launched a newsletter, which can be found here. You may register to subscribe to the newsletter by clicking here.

  Spain’s Comisión Nacional de la Competencia (CNC), along with el Centro de Estudios Económicos y Comerciales (CECO), offers an online course in competition that aims to help promote the culture of competition. The course covers competition promotion, prohibited agreements, dominance and mergers. It is aimed at professional advisers, managers, lawyers, economists, business consultants and […]

  The Spanish National Competition Commission (CNC) has recently launched its own space on Twitter. In the Commission’s words, this is “part of its commitment to ensure maximum transparency in the information that it provides and to reach all the public interested in what it does.” For more information, click here or here.

  Last month, the Spanish Competition Commission hosted European Competition Day. Documents, photos, and videos from the event can be found here.

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. […]

  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 […]

Today’s Web Wednesday returns the favor and recognizes member agencies that highlight their involvement in the ICN. To varying degrees, member agencies describe their international work, their participation in the ICN and the work of the ICN more generally, post contributions or their ICN templates, or just provide a link to find the ICN. The […]