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Well-designed competition law, effective law enforcement and competition-based economic reform promote increased efficiency, economic growth and employment for the benefit of all. OECD work on competition law and policy actively encourages decision-makers in government to tackle anti-competitive practices and regulations and promotes market-oriented reform throughout the world.
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07-Jul-2008
Ukrainian competition policy dates back to February 1992, shortly after independence from the Soviet Union, when the country’s first competition law was adopted as part of the effort to establish a market-based economy. The 2001 Law on the Protection of Economic Competition is the principal vehicle for competition law enforcement, and the 1996 Law on Protection against Unfair Competition deals with conduct by one company intended to exploit or injure the competitive vitality of a competing enterprise.
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23-Jun-2008
This roundtable focused on how competition authorities can provide businesses with effective guidance on monopolization and abuse of dominance. While some uncertainty over the reach of rules prohibiting anticompetitive unilateral conduct is inevitable, authorities responsible for the enforcement of antitrust laws must strive to provide as much transparency as possible as to their enforcement policies so that businesses can plan and invest with some predictability.
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13-Jun-2008
This paper relates diverging productivity performances across OECD countries over the past fifteen years to differences in the stringency of regulations in the product market.
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30-May-2008
Many delegates to the Competition Committee have expressed a wish to see increased coordination of capacity building activities worldwide. Sharing basic information is a good starting point. To this end, a "Calendar of Global Capacity Building Events in 2008/2009" has been compiled in close cooperation with OECD members and observers at the Competition Committee as well as international organisations. The Calendar will be regularly updated on the basis of the information provided to the OECD.
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16-May-2008
This roundtable addressed the recurring synergies that mergers sometimes create. These synergies, or “efficiencies,” can have very potent beneficial effects but are devilishly difficult to identify and measure. The Committee focused on dynamic efficiencies that facilitate or encourage innovation.
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21-Feb-2008
Opening the 100th meeting of the competition committee, Mr. Gurría reminded that competition is vital for economic growth. It stimulates efficiency and higher productivity, it disciplines managers, it reinforces incentives for innovation, and it speeds up the adjustment to change. He also mentioned OECD countries that have implemented pro-competition reforms have seen higher growth rates and lower unemployment than those who failed to reform. They have also proved to be more flexible and resilient to economic shocks.
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15-Jan-2008
To eliminate barriers to competition, governments can use the approach developed in the OECD’s new Competition Assessment Toolkit. The Toolkit is a method for identifying unnecessary restraints on market activities and developing alternative, less restrictive measures that still achieve government policy objectives. It draws on experiences of many OECD jurisdictions and will evolve based on feedback from ongoing country experiences.
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25-Jun-2008
Portugal can benefit more from globalisation. This requires further reducing the cost of doing business, promoting competition and improving regulations in infrastructure sectors that provide services to firms.
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09-Apr-2008
The potential to strengthen productivity growth and enhance consumer welfare through more competition is large in the energy and railway sectors. Lowering entry barriers, including through the option of stronger forms of vertical separation between network access provision and potentially competitive services will be the main challenge for Germany going forward. In particular, it will be a crucial point in designing the envisaged privatisation of state stakes in the railway sector market incumbent Deutsche Bahn AG.
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