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.

 

2011 - Revised Recommendation concerning structural separation in regulated industries

 

2009 - Guidelines for fighting bid rigging in public procurement

 

2009 - Recommendation on competition assessment

 

2005 - Guiding Principles for regulatory quality and performance

 

2005 - Best Practices for the formal exchange of information between competition authorities in hard core cartel investigations

 

2005 - Recommendation on merger review

 

2001 - Recommendation concerning structural separation in regulated industries

 

1998 - Recommendation concerning effective action against hard core cartels

 

1995 - Recommendation concerning co-operation between member countries on anticompetitive practices affecting international trade

 

1979 - Recommendation on competition policy and exempted or regulated sectors

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