Competitive Neutrality: Maintaining a level playing field between public and private business

This publication catalogues national practices that illustrate implementation of aspects or elements of competitive neutrality and highlights examples of challenges that may be encountered.

OECD Recommendation on Fighting Bid Rigging in Public Procurement

On 17 July 2012, the OECD Council adopted a Recommendation on Fighting Bid Rigging in Public Procurement, which together with the Guidelines, will help sensitise governments to assess their public procurement laws and practices at all levels in order to promote more effective procurement and reduce the risk of bid rigging in public tenders.

OECD-GVH Regional Centre for Competition in Budapest

OECD-GVH Regional Centre for Competition in Budapest website

Liberalisation and competition interventions in selected sectors

Competition is about increasing choice and efficiency to benefit consumers and make the economy more productive. This applies also to utilities which in many countries have been liberalised (such as electricity, water, railways and telecoms), are subject to regulation (‌banking and other financial services) or where the government plays an important role (healthcare, education and local public services).

International Co-operation and Competition

This page is about the Competition work on International Co-operation and Enforcement.

Competition issues under discussion

This page provides working papers by the Secretariat and invited experts under discussion at recent and forthcoming OECD Competition meetings. The proceedings with the full set of documents relating to these topics will become available on

Boosting integrity, fighting corruption

This brochure describes the multiple domains where the OECD is engaged in fighting corruption and boosting integrity. It relates how the CleanGovBiz initiative is drawing together for the first time these anti-corruption tools under a single umbrella.

Procedural Fairness and Transparency - 2012

This publication summarises three roundtable discussions on transparency and procedural fairness held during 2010 and 2011 at OECD Competition meetings.

Competition Law and Policy in Israel 2011

This Review was prepared as part of the process of Israel’s accession to OECD membership. It highlights some of the key challenges facing Israel in its implementation and enforcement of competition policy. Israel became an OECD member on 7 September 2010.

L’impact à court terme des réformes structurelles : une analyse empirique

Cet article s’appuie sur des données portant sur trente années de reformes structurelles dans les pays de l’OCDE et analyse l’impact de ces reformes au cours du temps.

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