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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
25-27 Jul 2017	UNCTAD Training Course on Advanced Investigative Techniques	Addis Ababa	Ethiopia
10-12 Jul 2017	UNCTAD MENA Programme Study Visits to the French Competition Authority in English Language for Middle East Countries	Paris	France
10-12 Jul 2017	UNCTAD-JFTC Joint Workshop on Investigative Tools for Case Handlers of African Competition Agencies	UNCTAD	Switzerland
05-07 Jul 2017	Intergovernmental Group of Experts on Competition Law and Policy, sixteenth session	Geneva	Switzerland
05 Jul 2017	Eighth Meeting of the UNCTAD Research Partnership Platform	Geneva	Switzerland
03-04 Jul 2017	Intergovernmental Group of Experts on Consumer Protection Law and Policy, second session	Geneva	Switzerland
19-21 Jun 2017	UNCTAD's meeting with the CEMAC Commission about the new Regional Capacity building Project on Competition and Consumer Protection	Douala	Cameroon
25 May 2017	UNCTAD speaks at the Conference on “Consumer Protection in a globalized world”	Lima	Peru
22-26 May 2017	Fifth course of the INDECOPI-UNCTAD/COMPAL School on Competition and Consumer Protection: consumer education and compliance campaigns in Latin America	Lima	Peru
18-19 May 2017	Fourth COMPAL Workshop on Competition and Consumer Protection: digital markets	Montevideo	Uruguay

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News

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.

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.

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