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 | | From: | Edmund Fitzgerald | | Subject: | Working groups: Cartels | | Date: | Sat, 22 Jan 2005 13:48:53 -0500 |
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http://www.internationalcompetitionnetwork.org/cartels.html
Working groups: Cartels
Globalization has created world-wide markets for many products and services.
It also presents certain challenges to competition authorities. As markets
are increasingly global, competition authorities are faced with cartel
activity that is, likewise, increasingly cross-border.
At the heart of antitrust enforcement is the battle against hardcore cartels
directed at price fixing, bid rigging, market sharing and market
allocations.
Therefore, ICN members at the ICN's Third Annual Conference in Seoul
resolved to set up a Cartel Working Group. The mandate of the Cartel Working
Group is to address the challenges of anti-cartel enforcement, both
domestically and internationally, across the entire range of ICN members and
amongst agencies with differing levels of experience.
The Working Group attaches particular importance to responding to the
interests and needs of agencies from developing and transition economies.
ICN Members at the Seoul Annual Conference asked DG Competition of the
European Commission, and the Hungarian Office of Economic Competition, to
co-chair this project.
Working Group-level contacts:
Mr Emil Paulis, Director, DG Competition, European Commission
Email: comp-icn-cartels@cec.eu.int
Mr Jozsef Sarai, Head of International Unit, Office of Economic Competition
Email: sajo@gvh.hu
During its first year, the ICN Cartel Working Group will focus on the
following two projects:
Subgroup 1: General Framework
The General Framework subgroup will address the legal and conceptual
challenges of anti-cartel enforcement. In the course of its work related to
the necessity and benefits of the fight against cartels, the subgroup will
strive to build on, and proceed beyond, the work undertaken in other forums;
and respond to the interests and needs of agencies new to cartel
enforcement.
The focus of the General Framework subgroup is the scope of anti-cartel
behavior, the support for anti-cartel enforcement, and the basic elements of
effective institutional frameworks used to detect, investigate and punish
hard core cartel conduct.
2004-2005 General Framework Work Plan
Contact Information
The co-chairs of Subgroup 1 are:
Scott Hammond, Deputy Assistant Attorney General,
US Department of Justice
scott.hammond@usdoj.gov
Mr. Daniel Goldberg, Secretary,
Ministry of Justice, Brazil
Email: daniel.goldberg@mj.gov.br
Subgroup 2: Enforcement Techniques
The objective of this Subgroup is to help competition agencies to improve
their enforcement techniques. It will aim to enhance the effectiveness of
anti-cartel enforcement by identifying and sharing specific investigative
techniques amongst agencies with differing levels of experience.
The work of this Subgroup could evolve from a number of general questions ,
including:
What constraints do antitrust enforcers face?
What is the enforcement experience in anti-cartel cases?
What can be done to improve the ability of enforcers to share information
and coordinate their enforcement activities?
This Subgroup could further proceed to address more specific practical and
technical questions and supplement the work that has so far been done in the
International Cartels Workshops . This Subgroup could study various specific
investigative techniques that would enhance enforcement effectiveness such
as:
standard of proof
compulsory requests
computer forensics
surprise inspections/dawn raids
surveillance techniques
interviewing skills
preventing the destruction of evidence
leniency
cooperation, including e.g., model waivers for the exchange of information
The format of the output of this Subgroup remains to be decided, but could
include preparing a virtual library of resource materials relevant to its
mandate.
It is envisaged that this Subgroup would also have a steering role for the
organisation of the Annual International Cartel Workshop. It would make
proposals for the content of the Workshop and possibly also develop a
multi-year plan for the Workshop. This could enhance the coherence and
quality of the annual workshops and help to ensure that workshops respond to
the needs of ICN's members. It is clear, however, that the host of an Annual
Workshop will always have a prominent role in the organisation of the event
.. Output generated in Subgroup 1 can influence the planning of the Workshop
agendas performed in Subgroup 2.
Annual Conference, Seoul, Korea
Graeme Samual
Denyse Mackenzie
Dr. Ulf Böge
Contact List
SubGroup 2 Workplan
2004 ICN Cartel Workshop Agenda (draft) - November 19-21, 2004
2004 ICN Leniency Workshop Agenda
Contacts for Subgroup 2:
Ms Colette Downie, Assistant Deputy Commissioner, Canadian Competition
Bureau
Email: ICNCartels.Enforcement@cb-bc.gc.ca
Ms Lee Hollis, General Manager,
Enforcement & Coordination, Competition and Consumer Commission, Austrailia
Email: ICNCartelsSubgroup2@accc.gov.au
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| | From: | Duncan Patton | | Subject: | Re: Working groups: Cartels | | Date: | Mon, 24 Jan 2005 01:09:19 GMT |
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| On Sat, 22 Jan 2005 14:22:58 -0500
"notritenoteri" wrote:
> Now your worried about international sin? where's jesus when you need him?
> "Edmund Fitzgerald" wrote in message
> news:zexId.1577$P_3.9925@newscontent-01.sprint.ca...
I'd have to say this well within the mandate of the posted groups. =20
Dhu
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All persons named herein are purely fictional victims
of the Canidian Bagle Breader's Association.
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| | From: | notritenoteri | | Subject: | Re: Working groups: Cartels | | Date: | Sat, 22 Jan 2005 14:22:58 -0500 |
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| Now your worried about international sin? where's jesus when you need him?
"Edmund Fitzgerald" wrote in message
news:zexId.1577$P_3.9925@newscontent-01.sprint.ca...
> From:
> http://www.internationalcompetitionnetwork.org/cartels.html
>
> Working groups: Cartels
>
> Globalization has created world-wide markets for many products and
services.
> It also presents certain challenges to competition authorities. As markets
> are increasingly global, competition authorities are faced with cartel
> activity that is, likewise, increasingly cross-border.
>
> At the heart of antitrust enforcement is the battle against hardcore
cartels
> directed at price fixing, bid rigging, market sharing and market
> allocations.
>
> Therefore, ICN members at the ICN's Third Annual Conference in Seoul
> resolved to set up a Cartel Working Group. The mandate of the Cartel
Working
> Group is to address the challenges of anti-cartel enforcement, both
> domestically and internationally, across the entire range of ICN members
and
> amongst agencies with differing levels of experience.
>
> The Working Group attaches particular importance to responding to the
> interests and needs of agencies from developing and transition economies.
>
> ICN Members at the Seoul Annual Conference asked DG Competition of the
> European Commission, and the Hungarian Office of Economic Competition, to
> co-chair this project.
>
> Working Group-level contacts:
>
> Mr Emil Paulis, Director, DG Competition, European Commission
> Email: comp-icn-cartels@cec.eu.int
>
> Mr Jozsef Sarai, Head of International Unit, Office of Economic
Competition
> Email: sajo@gvh.hu
>
> During its first year, the ICN Cartel Working Group will focus on the
> following two projects:
>
> Subgroup 1: General Framework
>
> The General Framework subgroup will address the legal and conceptual
> challenges of anti-cartel enforcement. In the course of its work related
to
> the necessity and benefits of the fight against cartels, the subgroup will
> strive to build on, and proceed beyond, the work undertaken in other
forums;
> and respond to the interests and needs of agencies new to cartel
> enforcement.
>
> The focus of the General Framework subgroup is the scope of anti-cartel
> behavior, the support for anti-cartel enforcement, and the basic elements
of
> effective institutional frameworks used to detect, investigate and punish
> hard core cartel conduct.
>
> 2004-2005 General Framework Work Plan
>
> Contact Information
>
> The co-chairs of Subgroup 1 are:
>
> Scott Hammond, Deputy Assistant Attorney General,
> US Department of Justice
> scott.hammond@usdoj.gov
>
> Mr. Daniel Goldberg, Secretary,
> Ministry of Justice, Brazil
> Email: daniel.goldberg@mj.gov.br
>
> Subgroup 2: Enforcement Techniques
>
> The objective of this Subgroup is to help competition agencies to improve
> their enforcement techniques. It will aim to enhance the effectiveness of
> anti-cartel enforcement by identifying and sharing specific investigative
> techniques amongst agencies with differing levels of experience.
>
> The work of this Subgroup could evolve from a number of general questions
,
> including:
>
> What constraints do antitrust enforcers face?
> What is the enforcement experience in anti-cartel cases?
> What can be done to improve the ability of enforcers to share information
> and coordinate their enforcement activities?
> This Subgroup could further proceed to address more specific practical and
> technical questions and supplement the work that has so far been done in
the
> International Cartels Workshops . This Subgroup could study various
specific
> investigative techniques that would enhance enforcement effectiveness such
> as:
>
> standard of proof
> compulsory requests
> computer forensics
> surprise inspections/dawn raids
> surveillance techniques
> interviewing skills
> preventing the destruction of evidence
> leniency
> cooperation, including e.g., model waivers for the exchange of information
> The format of the output of this Subgroup remains to be decided, but could
> include preparing a virtual library of resource materials relevant to its
> mandate.
>
> It is envisaged that this Subgroup would also have a steering role for the
> organisation of the Annual International Cartel Workshop. It would make
> proposals for the content of the Workshop and possibly also develop a
> multi-year plan for the Workshop. This could enhance the coherence and
> quality of the annual workshops and help to ensure that workshops respond
to
> the needs of ICN's members. It is clear, however, that the host of an
Annual
> Workshop will always have a prominent role in the organisation of the
event
> . Output generated in Subgroup 1 can influence the planning of the
Workshop
> agendas performed in Subgroup 2.
>
> Annual Conference, Seoul, Korea
>
> Graeme Samual
> Denyse Mackenzie
> Dr. Ulf Böge
>
> Contact List
> SubGroup 2 Workplan
> 2004 ICN Cartel Workshop Agenda (draft) - November 19-21, 2004
> 2004 ICN Leniency Workshop Agenda
> Contacts for Subgroup 2:
>
> Ms Colette Downie, Assistant Deputy Commissioner, Canadian Competition
> Bureau
> Email: ICNCartels.Enforcement@cb-bc.gc.ca
>
> Ms Lee Hollis, General Manager,
> Enforcement & Coordination, Competition and Consumer Commission,
Austrailia
> Email: ICNCartelsSubgroup2@accc.gov.au
>
>
>
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