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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
31 Aug-03 Sep 2015	Sectoral consumer protection enforcement in Viet Nam, first full-scale training workshop	Hanoi	Viet Nam
27-29 Jul 2015	Inception Phase Regional Workshop on Competition and Consumer Policies for Middle East and North Africa (MENA) Countries.	Agadir	Morocco
27-31 Jul 2015	Pilot Training Workshop for Strengthening Technical Competency for Consumer Protection in ASEAN	Jakarta	Indonesia
22-24 Jul 2015	Second Workshop on Investigative Techniques on Competition and Consumer Protection	Cartagena de Indias	Colombia
10 Jul 2015	Sixth Meeting of the Research Partnership Platform on Competition and Consumer Protection	Geneva
06-10 Jul 2015	Seventh United Nations Conference to Review All Aspects of the Set of Multilaterally Agreed Equitable Principles and Rules for the Control of Restrictive Business Practices	Geneva	Switzerland
16-17 Jun 2015	Second phase needs assessment for Tunisia; a CCPB MENA Programme beneficiary country	Tunis	Tunisia
15-19 Jun 2015	First course of the INDECOPI-UNCTAD/COMPAL School on Competition and Consumer Protection on E-commerce in Latin America	Lima	Peru
14-15 Jun 2015	Second phase needs assessment for Algeria; a CCPB MENA Programme beneficiary country	Algiers	Algeria
10-12 Jun 2015	Second phase needs assessment for Morocco; a CCPB MENA Programme beneficiary country	Rabat	Morocco

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News

13 July 2014Case handlers and representatives of WAEMU member states attend a two weeks training course in UNCTAD premises

Eighteen participants attended the sessions on international competition law and compliance from 30 June to 11 July 2014. The workshop was organized in the context of the WAEMU - UNCTAD project on competition and was delivered by the School of Management and Law of the Zurich University of Applied Sciences.

26 June 2014Peru's Supreme Court and UNCTAD hold first national workshop for competition and consumer protection judges

Judge Joaquín García Bernaldo de Quirós, former Head of the Spanish Competition Authority and Pierre Horna, Officer-in-charge of COMPAL-UNCTAD facilitated the first national workshop for Peru's Supreme Court judges in early June.

22 June 2014UNCTAD meets with the National Secretariat for Consumer (SENACOM) to discuss national and regional consumer issues in Latin America

Pierre Horna, Officer-in-charge of COMPAL-UNCTAD met with Mr. Amaury Martins de Oliva and Mrs. Ana Candida Muniz Cipriano (SENACOM), to discuss cooperation between UNCTAD and SENACOM on consumer protection issues in Brazil and Latin America.

22 June 2014UNCTAD meets the Brazilian Cooperation Agency (ABC) in Brasilia to discuss cooperation on competition and consumer protection in Latin America and elsewhere

Pierre Horna, Officer-in-charge of COMPAL-UNCTAD and Fernando Furlan, GAE member of COMPAL II met with Mr. Marcio Lopes Correa and Cecilia Malaguti do Prado to discuss future issues of cooperation between UNCTAD and Brazil.

22 June 2014UNCTAD and COPROCOM presented the new Merger Guidelines in Costa Rica

UNCTAD and the national competition authority of Costa Rica (COPROCOM) launched new guidelines on merger analysis in accordance to the new competition law adopted in 2012. The event had more than 100 representatives from the private sector, sectoral regulators and the like.

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