10/02/2012 - Angel Gurría, OECD Secretary-General, Pascal Lamy, WTO Director-General, and Otaviano Canuto, World Bank Vice-President, will open the 11th OECD Global Forum on Competition at 09.00 a.m. on Thursday 16 February 2012. Following their opening speeches, at 09.40 a.m. they will hold a news briefing, together with Frédéric Jenny, Chair of the OECD Competition Committee. The briefing will cover the main themes of the Forum: commodity price volatility, international co-operation in cartel investigations, and state-owned enterprises and competitive neutrality.

Journalists are invited to attend all the sessions of the Forum’s opening day, from 09.00 a.m. to 6.00 p.m. at OECD headquarters, 2 rue André Pascal, Paris 75016. The opening speeches and news briefing are on the record. All the following sessions are under Chatham House rules: reporters may not quote the names of the country or speaker.

This year’s Global Forum will bring together more than 350 participants with some 90 competition authorities, including 53 non members economies, coming from around the world, from Brazil and China to India and Russia. The main theme of the first day will be competition and commodity price volatility.

To register, journalists should contact media.registration@oecd.org, OECD Media division (tel. + 33 1 45 24 81 18).

More information on the Forum, including an agenda and the whole documentation, is available at www.oecd.org/competition/globalforum.