During this month, we’ve been publishing papers from competition authorities describing ways to educate an audience that may not even understand what “competition policy” is. Part of the surprise has…

Cristiane Landerdahl de Albuquerque, Carlos Ragazzo, Aug 28, 2012 The new Brazilian Competition Law (Law no. 12,529/11) brought two major changes from the previous statute (Law no. 8,884/94): (i) it…

Maria Coppola, Aug 28, 2012 For the International Competition Network (“ICN”), a virtual organization with 123 of the world´s competition agencies as members and many more non-governmental advisors (“NGAs”), one…

The Japan Fair Trade Commission, Aug 28, 2012 As in the case of any policy, unless the society, including government bodies, understands why a policy is established and implemented, how…

Angel Lopez Hoher, Aug 27, 2012 Competition advocacy is sometimes treated like enforcement’s poor cousin; academic debate, practitioners’ attention, and agency priorities tend to be geared towards enforcement across the…

The Competition Commission of Singapore, Aug 28, 2012 Given the significant impact that competition law could have on the course of doing business in Singapore, CCS regards it as an…

Trudi Makhaya, Aug 27, 2012 When South Africa’s modern competition regime came into effect, the country did not have much of a competition culture to speak of. The economy was…