ICN will encourage the dissemination of antitrust experience and best practices, promote the advocacy role of antitrust agencies and seek to facilitate international cooperation.
Memorandum on the Establishment and Operation of the International Competition Network
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.
