Market Studies: Economist’s Perspective - March 16
The Agency Effectiveness Working Group
Presents a Webinar on:
Market Studies: Economist’s Perspective
Tuesday, March 16th, 2021
08:00-9:00 (Washington, DC – Eastern Daylight Time)
13:00-14:00 (Brussels – Central European Time)
21:00-22:00 (Tokyo – Japan Standard Time)
The ICN Agency Effectiveness Working Group is organizing an economics teleseminar on March 16th, 2021. Join our panel of Agency and NGA economists where the panellists will each be discussing their recent experiences in conducting market studies by bringing the economic perspective to the forefront. Please see below a short description of the market study each panellist will cover.
The Portuguese Competition Authority: Fintech
In October 2018, the Portuguese Competition Authority published an issues paper on
technological innovation and competition in the financial sector in Portugal. The study assessed market entry conditions for Fintech companies and provided several recommendations to mitigate existing barriers to entry and expansion. More recently, the Authority launched an extensive sector inquiry to Fintech operators to collect their views on recent market developments and the persistence of barriers to entry and expansion. Together with this sector inquiry, in which 88 operators participated, the Authority assessed the degree of implementation of its previous recommendations and revaluated existing market conditions for new entrants. The Authority found that obstacles to the development of competition and innovation persist in the Portuguese financial sector, and that the full implementation of most of the measures recommended is still pending.
The Competition & Consumer Commission of Singapore: Online Travel Booking
The CCCS market study on online travel booking in Singapore examined the commercial arrangements and practices (including price and non-price parity clauses, search rankings and ownership, drip pricing, and pre-ticked boxes) adopted by online travel booking platforms through surveys and interviews conducted with industry stakeholders and consumers. The recommendations sought to encourage all consumer-facing businesses to adopt transparent pricing practices to enable consumers to accurately compare prices and make informed purchasing decisions. Following the study, the CCCS has also undertaken an ex-ante quantitative evaluation of the consumer benefits from the study’s recommendations.
Panellists:
ANA SOFIA RODRIGUES
Chief Economist, Portuguese Competition Authority
TAN HI-LIN
Director, Policy & Markets, Competition & Consumer Commission of Singapore
Moderator:
PROF. AMELIA FLETCHER
University of East Anglia
Contact AEWG Working Group Co-Chairs:
- Competition Authority of Botswana
- Competition and Consumer Commission of Singapore
- Swedish Competition Authority
Assessing Horizontal Cooperation in times of Covid-19 - March 3
The Cartel Working Group
Presents a Webinar on:
Assessing Horizontal Cooperation at times of Covid-19
Wednesday, March 3, 2021
8 am New York/ 2pm Rome / 4 pm Moscow time
90 minutes
This webinar will explore the development and implementation, during the outbreak of the Covid-19 emergency, of policies concerning the assessment of horizontal cooperation projects. The webinar will address the procedures put in place by competition agencies in providing guidance, the expected risks and the benefits deriving from the horizontal cooperation projects.
Dial-in Numbers & Webinar Links – contact CWG Chairs
Moderator
Mr Assimakis Komninos
Partner, White & Case
Speakers
Ms Cristina Volpin
Competition Expert, OECD Competition Division
Ms Alessandra Tonazzi
Director, European & International Affairs
Italy’s AGCM
Mr Aleko Bogdanov,
Antitrust Policy Unit, DG Competition
European Commission
Mr. Hideyuki SHIMOZU
Senior Investigator for International Cartel
Japan Fair Trade Commission
Mr Diogo Thomson
Deputy Superintendent
Brazil CADE
Contact CWG Working Group Co-Chairs:
- Russian Federal Anti-Monopoly Service (FAS)
- French Autorité de la Concurrence
- Italian Competition Authority AGCM
Digitalisation, Innovation and Agency Effectiveness - March 2
The Agency Effectiveness Working Group
Presents a Webinar on:
Digitalisation, Innovation and Agency Effectiveness
Tuesday, 2 March 2021
08:00 am Washington DC / 14:00 pm Stockholm / 15:00 pm Gaborone / 21:00 pm Singapore
The AEWG co-chairs invite member agencies to join them in the discussion on how to digitalise and innovate their authorities in order to achieve effective and efficient enforcement in the digital age. The webinar will explore the following questions:
- Agencies’ internal digital goals, strategies or tactics;
- Recruiting or training new digital talent, creating new digital teams;
- Innovative digital tools and technologies agencies use to increase their efficiency;
- How COVID-19 has impacted agencies’ digital transformation.
Moderator
Dr. Barbara Seelos, Senior Case Handler and Deputy Head of Staff
Austrian Federal Competition Authority
Speakers
Mr. Stig Bendiksen Hauge, Director of Administration
Norwegian Competition Authority
Ms. Mariana Rosa, Managing Director
Administrative Council for Economic Defence (CADE), Brazil
Mr. Pedro Isaac Alcalá Berhouague, Head of the Digital Markets General Directorate
Mexican Competition Authority (COFECE)
Ms. Ninette Mwarania, Manager, Planning, Policy and Research
Competition Authority of Kenya
Mr. Flavio Laina, Head of Unit, Cartels V
DG COMP
Mr. Julian Daniel Jimenez Krause, IT Project Manager, Information Technology
DG COMP
Contact AEWG Working Group Co-Chairs:
- Competition Authority of Botswana
- Competition and Consumer Commission of Singapore
- Swedish Competition Authority
ICN Virtual Spotlight - February 2
ICN Virtual SpotlightLeading your Agency through Change
Andrea Coscelli, Chief Executive Competition and Markets Authority
Andreas Mundt, President Bundeskartellamt and ICN Chair
45 minutes, 1:1
Brexit, digitalization, the new law in Germany are just examples. A changing environment challenges competition agencies around the world. Listen to Andrea Coscelli and Andreas Mundt when they discussed how to lead an agency through change. #ICN Spotlight
Tuesday, 2 February 2021
Advocacy Working Group Seminar -- January 28
The Advocacy Working Group
Presents a Webinar on:
Competition Advocacy to Support Robust Competition in a Post-pandemic World
Thursday, January 28, 2021
14.00 to 15.30 CET (Paris, Oslo)
The Covid-19 crisis brought about many challenges related to competition enforcement and advocacy. As the crisis developed, many competition enforcers around the globe sent clear messages that competition law would be strictly enforced and in some cases raised concerns about cooperation among businesses. At the same time, the enforcers targeted information on their websites, allocated resources to meet the demand for guidance and were involved to provide advice on government’s relief measure to businesses, which overnight lost the basis for its activity.
Now, as the Covid-19 pandemic enters a new phase with vaccines being rolled out, new advocacy challenges will materialize. The goal of advocacy strategies in this phase can on the one hand be damage control: to minimize damages caused to competition due to a significant drop in supply and demand, changes in market structure, and competition culture. However, the strategic goal can also be more ambitious: to promote the role of competition and a post-crisis pro-competitive regulatory framework to boost economic recovery, enabling economies to emerge stronger from the crisis.
This AWG webinar will discuss the challenges and the role of competition advocacy in the economic recovery after the crisis.
Moderator
- Kjell J. Sunnevåg, Norwegian Competition Authority
Introduction
- Bill Kovacic, Professor, George Mason University School of Law, USA
- Ruben Maximiano, Senior Competition Expert, OECD
Country perspectives
- Naoko Teranishi, Head of Office of Policy Planning and Research for Digital Markets, JFTC
- Adano Wario, Director Planning Policy and Quality Assurance, Competition Authority of Kenya
- Lars Sørgard, Director general, Norwegian Competition Authority
- Alfonso Camba, Deputy Head of Market Studies Unit at the Advocacy Department, CNMC, Spain
- David Lamb, Head of the Planning, Liaison and International Affairs and Rodrigo Rios, Executive Director of Regulatory Analysis and Collaboration with the Public Sector, COFECE, Mexico
For more information about the call, please contact the AWG co-chairs:
- Superintendencia de Industria y Comercio of Colombia
- Hong Kong Competition Commission
- Norwegian Competition Authority
Cartel Working Group Seminar -- January 20
The ICN Cartel Working Group Presents a Webinar on
‘‘How to detect and assess bidding cartels II.’
Agency only webinar!
Wednesday, 20 January 2021
8.00 (EST) / 13.00 (GMT) / 14.00 (CET)
The webinar intends to share jurisdiction’s experience on bidding cartels by focusing on detection methods that are successfully applied by competition authorities. Moreover, by mapping specific features of tender markets and tender design (via case studies) the webinar will also deal with the challenges of the assessment.
Moderator:
Mr Antonio CAPOBIANCO
Acting Head of Competition Division, OECD
Speakers:
Ms Natalie HARSDORF
Acting Managing Director, Austrian Federal Competition Authority, BWB
Mr Ismael BELTRÁN
Leader of the Public Procurement Collusion Task Force of Superintendency of Industry and Commerce, SIC
Mr Rory FIELD
Senior adviser on criminal cartels, Competition and Markets Authority, CMA
Mr Haim ARBIV
Head of Investigations and Intelligence Department, Israeli Competition Authority, ICA
Ms Oana NEG
Deputy Project Manager – Big Data Project, Competition Inspector, Competition Council of Romania
Interested agencies can contact the Hungarian Competition Authority (GVH) – CWG SG1 Co-chair – and ask for the dial-in details.
2020 ICN Work Product
Now presenting the ICN’s 2019-2020 work. ICN work product is finalized and posted within Working Group portfolio webpages following membership approval.
Cartel Seminar
The ICN Cartel Working Group Presents a Webinar on
‘Leniency perspectives from the private bar’
Wednesday, 11 November 2020
8.00 (EST) / 13.00 (GMT) / 14.00 (CET)
The webinar intends to provide a new angle to the previous work on leniency by giving an insight from NGA perspectives into the factors that are taken into consideration when deciding to submit a leniency/immunity application; why a client might decide against it and also what factors go into the decision to grant or not grant waivers to jurisdictions to exchange information with one another.
Moderator:
Mr Zoltán MAROSI
Attorney at Law / Partner, Oppenheim Law Firm, Hungary
Speakers:
Mr Mateo DIEGO-FERNÁNDEZ
Partner AGON, Mexico
Mr Raimundo ORTEGA
Partner, Antitrust & Competition Law, Energy, Jones Day, Spain
Mr Manuel CONTRERAS
Senior Associate specialized in competition law Herbert Smith Freehills, Spain
Mr Christof SWAAK
Head of the competition and regulation practice of Stibbe in New York and Amsterdam, EU
Mr Eric MEIRING
Partner, Antitrust, Winston & Strawn LLP, US
Interested agencies and NGAs can contact the CWG SG1 Co-chairs and ask for the dial-in details.
ICN Training Overview
Join us for another session of ICN’s 2020 Fall Seminar Series!
Tuesday, November 10, 2020
08:00 EST / 14:00 CET
THE WHO, WHAT, WHEN, WHERE, WHY & HOW OF
ICN’s Training on Demand
The world’s top competition experts are just a click away! The ICN’s ever-expanding collection of online video training modules is available to you anywhere, anytime.
Please join us for this Fall Webinar showcasing the ICN Training on Demand project. During the webinar, we will describe the origins of the ICN Training on Demand project, show you where to access videos, hear about how to make use of the video library, and tell you how you can get involved in the development and production of future training modules.
Interested agencies and NGAs can ask for the dial-in details.
MWG: Sound Decision Making
Join us for another session of ICN’s 2020 Fall Seminar Series!
The ICN Merger Working Group
Presents a Fall Webinar on
Sound Decision Making
Tuesday, November 3, 2020
8.00 (EST) / 13.00 (GMT) / 14.00 (CET)
This webinar shall discuss topics addressed during the Merger Working Group’s regional webinars on sound decision making in merger assessment, such as evidence-based decision making, transparency, independence, and anti-bribery.
Moderator
Joel Bamford
Senior Director, Mergers
Competition and Markets Authority, UK
Speakers
Patricia Brink
Director of Professional Development
Antitrust Division, USA
Kaoru Harada
Senior Officer, M&A Division
Fair Trade Commission, Japan
Cristiane Landerdahl de Albuquerque
Head of Merger & Antitrust Unit for Regulated Markets
CADE, Brazil
Raphael Mburu
Manager, Mergers and Acquisitions
Competition Authority, Kenya
Interested agencies and NGAs can contact the MWG Co-chairs and ask for the dial-in details.