The ICN's mission statement is to advocate the adoption of superior standards and procedures in competition policy around the world, formulate proposals for procedural and substantive convergence, and seek to facilitate effective international cooperation to the benefit of member agencies, consumers and economies worldwide.
The activity of antitrust authorities is particularly important in the regulated sectors where exclusionary and collusive practices can be encountered. The working group described the limits and constraints facing antitrust authorities intervening in regulated sectors as well as the enforcement experience in regulated sectors, and examined the relations between antitrust authorities and sector regulators.
Telecommunications is a rapidly evolving sector, presenting many challenges for competition authorities from both developing and developed jurisdictions in their enforcement work and in their competition advocacy efforts before sector regulators.
