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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
21-22 Jan 2016	Fourth Workshop of the Euro-Mediterranean Competition Forum (EMCF)	St. Julian's	Malta
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
02-03 Dec 2015	5th Meeting of the Working Group on Trade and Competition of Latin America and the Caribbean	Manta	Ecuador
22-27 Nov 2015	Training Course, Escuela INDECOPI COMPAL	Lima	Peru
12 Nov 2015	Sofia Competition Forum	Sofia	Bulgaria
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
04 Sep 2015	Awareness raising seminar on the role of competition law in Zimbabwe	Bulawayo	Zimbabwe
02 Sep 2015	Stakeholders workshop on draft competition policy for Zimbabwe	Harare	Zimbabwe

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News

27 May 2013Meeting between UNCTAD and the new President of the PROCOMPETENCIA of the Dominican Republic

UNCTAD and the newly appointed President of the PROCOMPETENCIA of the Dominican Republic, Mrs. Michelle Cohen, met to discuss the strengthening of the relationship between the two organisations.

02 May 2013Worshops on Competition Law Enforcement for Colombia and Peru (18-23 April 2013)

UNCTAD, through the COMPAL programme, organised two advanced workshops for competition case handlers of Colombian and Peruvian competition authorities between 18 and 23 April 2013. The workshops were delivered by Prof. Ariel Ezrachi (Director of the OXFORD Competition Policy Centre), Timothy Hughes (Attorney at the US Federal Trade Commission) and Pierre Horna (Officer-in-charge of the COMPAL Programme of UNCTAD).

31 January 2013Deputy Secretary General discusses competition policy with President of Ukraine

UNCTAD Deputy Secretary General Petko Draganov headed a group of competition experts at a 29 January meeting with Ukrainian President Viktor F. Yanukovych.

17 December 2012Competition agencies celebrate World Competition Day

Competition agencies across the globe have joined together to celebrate World Competition Day, which marks the thirty-second anniversary of the adoption by the General Assembly, on 5 December 1980, of the United Nations Set of Multilaterally Agreed Equitable Principles and Rules for the Control of Restrictive Business Practices (UN Set).

21 October 2012UNCTAD supports WAEMU member States’ reform of regional competition framework

As part of a project on reforming the regional competition framework, the West African Economic and Monetary Union (WAEMU) Commission and UNCTAD’s Competition and Consumer Policies Branch have recently jointly supported national consultation seminars, in Burkina Faso on 5 October and in Senegal on 9 October.

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