5-March-2024
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6 March 2024 - OECD Competition Trends is a annual publication presenting unique insights into global competition trends based on analysis of data from more than 77 OECD and non-OECD jurisdictions. The 2024 edition report has a special chapter on merger control, which provides for the first time a disaggregate analysis of the participating jurisdictions. It also contains an analysis of all merger prohibition cases between 2015 and 2022.
1-February-2024
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Published regularly, this newsletter reports on the activities of the OECD/GVH Regional Centre for Competition. It provides information about recent cases and developments in the participating economies in Eastern and South-Eastern Europe.
30-January-2024
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This newsletter contains information about work on competition law and policy in the Asia-Pacific region that is taking place within the framework of the OECD-Korea Policy Centre Competition Programme.
15-December-2023
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This annual meeting offers senior regulators in the Asia-Pacific region the opportunity to share and develop their practice and application of competition law and policy, and to generate fresh ways of thinking about existing and novel challenges that face the regulatory community.
14-December-2023
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In co-operation with Tunisia, the OECD has conducting reviews of laws and regulations in the tourism and banking sectors in Tunisia.
6-December-2023
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The phenomenon of serial acquisitions has spurred debate around consolidation risks and the potential need for increased scrutiny over such transactions. Despite this, it appears that few jurisdictions’ merger regimes explicitly address them. The OECD roundtable on serial acquisitions and industry roll-ups aimed to shed light on the magnitude of this issue, potential for competitive harms and whether there is an enforcement gap.
6-December-2023
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Out of market efficiencies affect consumers or other economic agents in different markets from those in which anticompetitive effects are alleged to occur in the context of a merger, an anticompetitive conduct, or an agreement. This OECD roundtable discussed whether competition authorities should balance the impact on consumers that are directly harmed with beneficial effects that are not specific to the market under consideration.
5-December-2023
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In June 2023 the OECD held a discussion on the relationship between competition and innovation. In December 2023 a second discussion explored how competition authorities incorporate innovation as part of their assessment in merger review and enforcement investigations.
4-December-2023
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Contemporary challenges may require a competition agency to reflect on how it to its internal design. In December 2023, the OECD held a roundtable to discuss the optimal internal set-up, including required skills as well as institutional powers, investigative tools and procedures to address common challenges such as digitalisation, increasing use of data, sustainability concerns and the required support for green policies.
4-December-2023
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In December 2023 the OECD held a roundtable to discuss competition law and the professional sports sector, and specific features of this industry that may raise challenges for competition authorities. A recent increase in this issue by competition authorities worldwide suggests that it is timely to revisit the topic. The roundtable benefited from a panel of invited experts and from a Background Note from the Secretariat.