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 Session
Join us for the first session of ICN’s 2020 Fall Seminar Series!
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
Tuesday, 22nd September 2020
8:00-9:30 EDT (Washington D.C.) / 14:00-15:30 CEDT (Rome)
Moderator: Andrea Minuto Rizzo, Head of International Affairs Office, Italian Competition Authority (AGCM)
Opening remarks:
Andreas Mundt, ICN Steering Group Chair and President of Bundeskartellamt
Introduction:
Georgiana Pop, Global Lead, Competition Policy, World Bank Group
Alessandra Tonazzi, Director of the European and International Affairs Directorate, Italian Competition Authority (AGCM)
Awards announcements & discussion:
Theme 1: Unleashing competition for more and better jobs
Presenter: Mariana Tavares, Partner, Levy & Salomão Advogados
Theme 2 – Aligning industrial policies with competition principles
Presenter: Georgiana Pop, Global Lead, Competition Policy, World Bank Group
Theme 3 – Promoting pro-competition data regulation
Presenter: Alessandra Tonazzi, Director of the European and International Affairs Directorate, Italian Competition Authority
Theme 4 – Boosting policy effectiveness through better coordination between enforcement and advocacy
Presenter: Eleanor Fox, Walter J. Derenberg Professor of Trade Regulation at New York University School of Law
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 |
2020 Annual Conference
19th Annual International Competition Network Conference starts today
The International Competition Network’s (ICN) 19th annual conference opens today at 8:00am EDT/2:00pm CEST and runs through Thursday, Sept. 17, 2020. The network’s first-ever virtual annual conference will be co-hosted by the US Federal Trade Commission and the US Department of Justice’s Antitrust Division.
Originally planned as an in-person event in Los Angeles in May, the multi-day conference features discussions across a range of competition enforcement and policy issues, particularly those that involve the digital economy, and highlights the progress of the ICN working groups on mergers, cartels, unilateral conduct, advocacy and agency effectiveness. Conference participants include leaders and staff of ICN member agencies, competition experts from international organizations, and non-governmental advisors (NGAs) from the legal, business, and academic communities.
Andreas Mundt, President of the Bundeskartellamt and ICN Chair said, “The 2020 ICN Annual Conference has a clear focus: the digital economy. This is where we as enforcers are in the spotlight and have to deliver results. We are on track but we need to carry the momentum into our agencies and multiply it in the ICN. Our co-hosts did a great job transforming the L.A. conference into a virtual event.”
Registration is not required. The web address to attend is available on the ICN 2020 Virtual Annual Conference’s website.
2020 ICN Virtual Annual Conference
The first virtual ICN Annual Conference will take place from 14-17 September 2020. Our joint virtual hosts, the US DoJ and US FTC, together with the ICN Working Group Co-chairs have organized a compact conference week and a series of additional sessions that are linked to the main conference week but will take place later this year.
2020 Annual Conference Postponed -- Update
Letter update from the Hosts and ICN Chair.
Dear ICN Members and Registered ICN Annual Conference attendees,
As we all follow developments regarding COVID-19. We would like to update you on the status of the ICN 2020 Annual Conference.
The conference is rescheduled as a virtual event in September to ensure that all of our attendees can enjoy the conference worry free.
For updates or questions, please contact the conference hosts.