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.
UCWG: Digital Markets seminar
Join us for another session of ICN’s 2020 Fall Seminar Series!
Please join us for an ICN UCWG webinar on the “Report on the Results of the ICN Survey on Dominance/Substantial Market Power in Digital Markets” on 27 October 2020, 9:00 EDT/14:00 CET.
Speakers will share experience on key elements of the report and will discuss what further guidance may be needed to help agencies assess market power in digital markets.
Moderator:
Ekaterina Rousseva, Policy and case coordinator, European Commission, DG Competition
Speakers:
Simone Wong, Principal Economist, Competition and Consumer Economics Unit, ACCC, Australia
Dr. Sebastian Wismer, Head of Unit Digital Economy, Bundeskartellamt, Germany
Sergio Rodriguez Garcia, Director General for Market Investigations, COFECE, Mexico
Yves Botteman, Partner, Dentons Europe LLP, Brussels, Belgium, also UCWG NGA for DG Competition
Best regards,
Interested agencies and NGAs can contact the UCWG Co-chairs and ask for the dial-in details.
ICN Framework on Competition Agency Procedures (CAP)
Join us for another session of ICN’s 2020 Fall Seminar Series!
Join us for a Fall Webinar on:
Framework for Competition Agency Procedures: Participant Perspectives
Tuesday, October 20th, 2020
08:00 EDT / 14:00 CEDT
Fair and effective procedures are essential to sound competition law enforcement and can increase opportunities for international cooperation. Following the desire expressed by several competition agencies to further cooperate on fundamental principles of fair and effective procedures, the ICN established a Framework on Competition Agency Procedures (the “CAP”). This webinar will mark the first gathering of participants since the CAP was signed in May of 2019. The webinar will review highlights from the templates submitted by participants and feature several perspectives on how the CAP agreement and completion of templates have provided opportunities for self assessment, regional dialogue on procedures, and more productive engagement with private parties.
Speakers:
Reiko Aoki
Commissioner, Japan Fair Trade Commission
Gudmundur Haukur Gudmundsson
Division Manager & International Coordinator
Icelandic Competition Authority
Francis Kariuki
Director General, Competition Authority of Kenya
Sergio López Rodríguez
Head of the Investigative Authority
Federal Economic Competition Commission of Mexico
John Pecman
Senior Business Advisor
Fasken Martineau, ICN NGA
Moderator
Marcus Bezzi
Executive General Manager, Specialised Enforcement and Advocacy Division
Australian Competition and Consumer Commission
Interested agencies and NGAs can contact the CAP Co-chairs and ask for the dial-in details.
2019-2020 ICN/WBG Competition Advocacy Contest
The 2019-2020 ICN-WBG Competition Advocacy Contest
Competition as a tool to reap the benefits and mitigate the costs of the new economy: Jobs, industry and data
For more information on the contest, visit the World Bank Group’s contest webpage.
Congratulations to the 2019-2020 Winners!
Theme 1: Unleashing competition for more and better jobs
Awarded authorities:
U.S. Federal Trade Commission (Winner)
U.S. Department of Justice, Antitrust Division (Winner)
Theme 2 – Aligning industrial policies with competition principles
Awarded authorities:
Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC), Australia (Winner)
Superintendence of Industry and Commerce (SIC), Colombia (HM)
Federal Antimonopoly Services (FAS), Russia (HM)
Theme 3 – Promoting pro-competition data regulation
Awarded authorities:
Portuguese Competition Authority (Adc) (Winner)
Theme 4 – Boosting policy effectiveness through better coordination between enforcement and advocacy
Awarded authorities:
Hong Kong Competition Commission (Winner)
Competition Commission, Mauritius (HM)
Federal Economic Competition Commission (COFECE), Mexico (HM)
Competition and Consumer Protection Commission, Zambia (HM)
ICN 2020 Fall Seminar Series
The ICN’s 19th annual conference was held 14-17 September. Materials are online on the conference webpages.
Missing ICN content already? No need! The ICN is announcing a 2020 Fall Seminar Series. Stay tuned for these ICN Events every Tuesday into November!
The link to attend the first session on 22 September on the 2019-2020 ICN-World Bank Competition Advocacy Contest is available: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hf5WKbz7TiI
Links and participation information for future sessions will be made available by working groups.
ICN FALL WEBINAR SERIES |
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| Date | Time |
Session |
| Tuesday,
22 September |
8:00 EDT / 14:00 CEDT | Advocacy Working Group: ICN World Bank Competition Advocacy Contest |
| Tuesday,
29 September |
8:00 EDT / 14:00 CEDT | Merger Working Group: Procedural Infringements |
| Tuesday,
6 October |
8:00 EDT / 14:00 CEDT | Cartel Working Group: Horizontal Agreements on Sustainability in a World on Fire |
| Tuesday,
13 October |
8:00 EDT / 14:00 CEDT | Agency Effectiveness Working Group:
Enforcement Priorities in Action: Agency Effectiveness Perspective |
| Tuesday,
20 October |
8:00 EDT / 14:00 CEDT | ICN Framework for Competition Agency Procedures: Participant Perspectives |
| Tuesday,
27 October |
9:00 EDT / 14:00 CEST | Unilateral Conduct Working Group:
Dominance/Substantial Market Power in Digital Markets Report |
| Tuesday,
3 November |
8:00 EST / 14:00 CEST | Merger Working Group: Sound Decision Making |
| Tuesday,
10 November |
8:00 EST / 14:00 CEST | ICN Training on Demand Showcase |
News Release: ICN 2020 Annual Conference
Quality, Spirit and Professionalism
International Competition Network discusses digital economy and announces full self-evaluation of ICN
The International Competition Network (ICN) held its 19th annual conference on September 14-17, 2020. The conference was the ICN’s first virtual conference. Originally planned as an in-person conference in Los Angeles in May, the conference transitioned to a virtual format as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic.
The ICN is the most important network of competition authorities worldwide. It comprises 140 competition agencies from 129 jurisdictions. Andreas Mundt, President of the Bundeskartellamt, has been the ICN Steering Group Chair since September 2013.
Andreas Mundt, ICN Chair and President of the Bundeskartellamt: “Over 2500 delegates from around the world participated in the conference. I want to thank our host agencies FTC and DOJ, the ICN working group co-chairs and everyone involved.”
Andreas Mundt opened the conference and spoke on a panel on remedies in unilateral conduct cases involving digital markets. Other sessions dealt with competition enforcement in the digital economy, big data and cartelization, competition advocacy in the digital age, merger investigations in the digital sector, and competition agencies’ strategies to address the challenges of the digital economy. Additional sessions dedicated to younger agencies, ICN Non-Governmental Advisors and economists took place on conference day four.
The ICN also announced plans for a full self-evaluation of the network, the “Third Decade Review”. Andreas Mundt: “ICN will turn 20 next year and we will look at tools, structure and topics to shape the ICN for its third decade. The ICN is well equipped to keep on improving and developing, maybe the most important skill these days. Quality, spirit and professionalism will enable the ICN to tackle the issues that matter for its members.”
A recording of the conference will be available on the ICN conference webpage after the close of the conference. Supplemental annual conference programming will be held throughout the fall.
ICN work products, the ICN working group work plans and additional information on future events are available on the ICN website.
2020 ICN Working Group annual work plans
Now presenting the ICN’s 2020-2023 future work plans. Also available on individual working group webpages.