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Competition Law and Consumer Protection Policy

The objective of UNCTAD's work on competition and consumer policies is to ensure that partner countries enjoy the benefits of increased competition, open and contestable markets, private sector investment in key sectors and ultimately that consumers achieve improved welfare.

The Competition and Consumer Policies Programme services the Intergovernmental Group of Experts (IGE) on Competition Law and Policy and the Ad-hoc Expert Group meeting on Consumer protection policies annually, undertakes competition policy peer reviews, publishes the UNCTAD Model law on competition and the Handbook on competition legislation and implements sector specific and economy-wide competition and consumer policies reforms that create a level playing field amongst companies and consumers, increasing the effectiveness of antitrust and consumer protection policies.

The highest intergovernmental body is the United Nations review Conferences to Review the Set on Competition policy which is held every five years.

The Research Partnership Platform work stream are circulated and feed into to the IGE and inform their discussions.

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Events and Meetings

Start Date	Title	Location	Country
02-03 Dec 2015	5th Meeting of the Working Group on Trade and Competition of Latin America and the Caribbean	Manta	Ecuador
04 Sep 2015	Awareness raising seminar on the role of competition law in Zimbabwe	Bulawayo	Zimbabwe
21-22 Jan 2016	Fourth Workshop of the Euro-Mediterranean Competition Forum (EMCF)	St. Julian's	Malta
12 Nov 2015	Sofia Competition Forum	Sofia	Bulgaria
02 Sep 2015	Stakeholders workshop on draft competition policy for Zimbabwe	Harare	Zimbabwe
22-27 Nov 2015	Training Course, Escuela INDECOPI COMPAL	Lima	Peru
17-18 Dec 2015	Training of Judges - Albanian Competition Authority	Tirana	Albania
10-11 Dec 2015	Training Workshop on Mergers and Abuse of Dominance Cases	Addis Ababa	Ethiopia
15-16 Sep 2015	UNCTAD's COMPAL Programme organizes the Fifth International Consumer Protection Forum in Cuzco, Peru	Cuzco	Peru
11 Sep 2015	UNCTAD's COMPAL Programme trains Peruvian officials and university students on competition and consumer protection issues	Arequipa	Peru

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News

09 June 2014UNCTAD Experts Outline Trends in E-commerce and consumer protection at Panama meeting

UNCTAD’s Competition and Consumer Policies branch outlined the organization’s work on e-commerce and the progress made in revising the UN guidelines on consumer protection at an International Consumer Protection Enforcement Network (ICPEN) event in Panama, 20-23 May 2014.

29 May 2014UNCTAD opens national workshop in Peru for university professors on competition and consumer protection law enforcement issues

UNCTAD’s COMPAL competition law programme, in association with the University Antonio Gullermo Urrelo (UPAGU) and the Peruvian Competition Authority (INDECOPI), held the first edition of a workshop on competition and consumer laws for university professors in Cajamarca, in the north of Peru from 7 to 11 May 2014.

12 May 2014GLOBAL COMPAL Programme Launched in Peru

A global programme to support competition and consumer protection policies was launched in Lima, Peru on 5 May at the headquarters of Peru’s Competition Authority, INDECOPI.

06 May 2014Competition and consumer protection programme expands to cover Middle East and North Africa

An UNCTAD programme to strengthen competition and consumer protection policies has been launched in the Middle East and North African (MENA) region.

01 May 2014The role of intellectual property in technology transfer and competition

Students at Lund University of Sweden learn from an UNCTAD partnership how policy frameworks can help build domestic technological capacities and the role of intellectual property rights in this regard.

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