‌‌‌International co-operation in competition law enforcement is at the core of the OECD competition-related work.

As part of this work, the OECD Competition Committee has put together an inventory of international co-operation agreements. The inventory focuses on 15 bilateral comprehensive government-to-government co-operation agreements where at least one of the signatories is an OECD country. The inventory lists options which would be useful for the negotiation or interpretation of co-operation agreements. It is divided by several sections according to items usually dealt by them (e.g. purpose, definitions, transparency, notifications, comity, etc.) and also includes mentions to agency-to-agency memoranda of understanding and regional frameworks.

Each section of the inventory is presented separately , along with the relevant provision of the 2014 OECD Recommendation concerning International Co-operation on Competition Investigations and Proceedings and a list of the relevant clauses out of the 15 bilateral co-operation agreements.

Where appropriate, the list of relevant clauses includes provisions out of five second generation agreements (i.e. agreements with provisions enabling the exchange of confidential information under certain circumstances, without seeking prior consent from the source of the information), as well as two special co-operation agreements on positive comity. 

INVENTORY OF INTERNATIONAL CO-OPERATION AGREEMENTS