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Tuesday 9 May (0930 - 0940)

Welcome and opening remarks

Antitrust Section (Lead)
European Regional Forum

Tuesday 9 May (0940 - 1010)

Introduction and opening keynote address

Antitrust Section (Lead)
European Regional Forum

Session/Workshop Chair(s)

Tuesday 9 May (1010 - 1110)

Reaping competition efficiencies in global markets

Programme details

• Global trends in competition policy: how developing economies handle super-cartels, merger waves and reform programmes to open markets • Economic integration, trade flows and competition policy • Reaping the benefits of the digital economy • International cooperation as a tool to foster better functioning global markets

Antitrust Section (Lead)
European Regional Forum

Session/Workshop Chair(s)

Thomas Janssens

Tuesday 9 May (1130 - 1145)

ICC keynote address

Programme details

Legitimacy and effectiveness of antitrust enforcement

Antitrust Section (Lead)
European Regional Forum

Tuesday 9 May (1145 - 1300)

Fostering global antitrust enforcement

Programme details

• Defending firms in global antitrust cases • Setting the stage for effective antitrust enforcement: collaboration, independence and implementation • Internationalising enforcement tools to fight cartels • Abuse of dominance enforcement in a high-tech world: international convergence or divergence? • New ex ante merger control regimes – how to get it right • International mergers – challenges posed by diverging laws and processes

Antitrust Section (Lead)
European Regional Forum

Session/Workshop Chair(s)

Tuesday 9 May (1400 - 1500)

Competition enforcement trends and challenges

Programme details

• Fostering effective enforcement through innovative tools • Foreign investment controls and protectionism: inter-institutional coordination: a lawyer’s friend or foe?

Antitrust Section (Lead)
European Regional Forum

Session/Workshop Chair(s)

Stefano Bertasi

Tuesday 9 May (1500 - 1600)

Compliance 2.0: agencies and business perspective

Antitrust Section (Lead)
European Regional Forum

Session/Workshop Chair(s)

Sara Nyman , Anne Riley

Tuesday 9 May (1615 - 1630)

Keynote address

Antitrust Section (Lead)
European Regional Forum

Tuesday 9 May (1630 - 1745)

Elevating competition policies in economic policy agendas

Programme details

• The sectoral angle: embedding competition principles in sectoral policies • The competitive neutrality angle: levelling the playing field for private sector development. • The procedural angle: fostering due process to support to create an attractive business climate. • The institutional angle: preventing anticompetitive actions of public bodies, • The regional angle: building supranational competition policies in the post-Brexit context/regional competition policies facing disintegration challenges

Antitrust Section (Lead)
European Regional Forum

Session/Workshop Chair(s)

Tuesday 9 May (1745 - 1800)

Closing keynote speaker

Antitrust Section (Lead)
European Regional Forum

Tuesday 9 May (1800 - 1830)

Closing remarks from the IBA, ICC and The World Bank Group

Antitrust Section (Lead)
European Regional Forum