Recommendations and Best Practices on Competition Law and Policy

The OECD Council has adopted a number of non-binding Recommendations on competition law and policy. In addition, the Competition Committee has adopted Best Practices. These Recommendations and Best Practices are often catalysts for major change by governments.

The road to recovery: Under construction – competition policy at work

Opening the 9th Global Forum on Competition, Mr. Gurría talks about the concerted global effort needed to promote competitive markets which will support the recovery from the crisis.

9th OECD Global Forum on Competition, 18-19 February 2010

Taking place in Paris on 18-19 February 2010, the 9th OECD Global Forum on Competition will focus on state aids and subsidies and collusion and corruption in public procurement. Participants will also discuss a peer review of Brazil's competition law and policy.

Competition and Financial Markets

The financial sector is vulnerable to systemic loss of trust. The current crisis resulted from failures in financial market regulation, not failure of competition. Competition and stability can co-exist in the financial sector: more competitive market structures promote stability by reducing the number of banks that are “too big to fail”. Competition helps make the financial sector efficient and ensure that rescue and stimulus

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• Competition and Regulation in Retail Banking
• Competition Policy in Subsidies and State Aid
• Mergers in Financial Services
• Relations between Regulators and Competition Authorities
• Enhancing the Role of Competition in the Regulation of Banks
• Failing Firm Defence

Resisting protectionism and keeping markets open to competition

Webcast - Dominique Strauss-Kahn, Angel Gurría and Frédéric Jenny open the 2009 Global Forum on Competition and answer journalists' questions.

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Minority Shareholdings and Interlocking Directorates

While there is no presumption of per se illegality of structural links between competitors, minority shareholdings and interlocking directorates can have negative effects on competition depending on the circumstances, either by reducing the individual incentives to compete or by facilitating collusion. In OECD countries, merger review rules are most frequently used to examine the competitive effects of minority shareholdings. However,

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• Managing Complex Mergers
• Merger Remedies
• Price Transparency
• Competition Issues in Joint Ventures

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Private Remedies

Between 2004 and 2006, the Competition Committee held a series of four roundtables on private enforcement in competition cases. This document summarises those discussions and focuses on general principles and policies as well as a number of specific issues related to private actions for damages.

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• Prosecuting Cartels Without Direct Evidence of Agreement
• Best Practices for the Formal Exchange of Information Between Competition Authorities in Hard Core Investigations
• Hard Core Cartels: Third Report on the Implementation of the 1998 Recommendation
• Fighting Hard-core Cartels: Harm, Effective Sanctions and Leniency Programmes
• 1998 - Recommendation on Effective Action against Hard Core Cartels

Vertical Mergers

This roundtable addressed the economics, practice, and policy of vertical merger enforcement. It explored the state of research on vertical mergers and the practical strategies, difficulties, and successes of vertical merger enforcement by competition agencies.

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• 2005 Council Recommendation on Merger Review
• Merger Remedies
• Media Mergers
• Mergers in Financial Services
• Report on Notification of Transnational Mergers
• Merger Cases in the Real World - A Study of Merger Control Procedures

Policy Brief: Prosecuting Cartels without Direct Evidence of Agreement

Cartels are agreements among competitors fixing prices, allocating markets or rigging tenders (bids). They are the most harmful of all types of competition law violations and should be sanctioned severely. Cartel cases are unique. The most important part of a cartel case is simply proving that such an agreement existed. But getting direct evidence of a cartel agreement can be difficult. Cartel operators work in secret and often do not