Each year, an Intergovernmental Group of Experts (IGE) on Competition Law and Policy meets to discuss ways of improving worldwide cooperation on competition policy implementation and enhancing convergence through dialogue.
The United Nations Set of Principles on Competition provides the basis for intergovernmental consultations.
Rather than exercising any rule-making function, the IGE conducts its work through:
- Interactive debates
- Voluntary Peer Review of Competition Law and Policy
- Round tables on specialized competition topics
- Reviews of technical assistance and capacity-building activities
When a consensus on recommendations is reached, individual member countries decide whether and how to implement the recommendations (i.e. through unilateral, bilateral or multilateral arrangements, as appropriate).
Meetings
8 – 10 July 2026
Intergovernmental Group of Experts on Competition Law and Policy, 23rd session
Geneva, Switzerland3 – 5 July 2024
Intergovernmental Group of Experts on Competition Law and Policy, twenty-second session
Geneva, Switzerland5 – 7 July 2023
Intergovernmental Group of Experts on Competition Law and Policy, twenty-first session
Geneva, Switzerland20 – 22 July 2022
Intergovernmental Group of Experts on Competition Law and Policy, twentieth session
Geneva, Switzerland7 – 9 July 2021
Intergovernmental Group of Experts on Competition Law and Policy, nineteenth session
Geneva and Online, Switzerland10 – 12 July 2019
Intergovernmental Group of Experts on Competition Law and Policy, eighteenth session
Geneva, Switzerland11 – 13 July 2018
Intergovernmental Group of Experts on Competition Law and Policy, seventeenth session
Geneva, Switzerland5 – 7 July 2017
Intergovernmental Group of Experts on Competition Law and Policy, sixteenth session
Geneva, Switzerland19 – 21 October 2016
Intergovernmental Group of Experts on Competition Law and Policy, fifteenth session
Geneva, Switzerland8 – 10 July 2014
Intergovernmental Group of Experts on Competition Law and Policy, fourteenth session
Geneva, Switzerland8 – 10 July 2013
Intergovernmental Group of Experts on Competition Law and Policy, thirteenth session
Geneva, Switzerland9 – 11 July 2012
Intergovernmental Group of Experts on Competition Law and Policy, twelfth session
Geneva, Switzerland19 – 21 July 2011
Intergovernmental Group of Experts on Competition Law and Policy, eleventh session (workshop on fourth day)
Geneva7 – 9 July 2009
Intergovernmental Group of Experts on Competition Law and Policy, tenth session
14 – 18 July 2008
Intergovernmental Group of Experts on Competition Law and Policy
17 – 19 July 2007