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The Merger Working Group's Investigative Techniques Workshop in Brussels

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he ICN has approved a pilot program that seeks to facilitate contacts between competition agencies in order to make the expertise of more experienced ICN members more readily available to less experienced agencies. Despite differences in jurisdictions' legal systems, the issues encountered by competition agencies are strikingly similar across jurisdictions, such as definition of relevant markets, identification of barriers to entry, efficiencies, assessment of conduct on competition, and so forth. The program will make it easier for competition agencies to access the experience of others.

The program is simultaneously exploring two basic models for sharing experience with newer agencies:: a partnership model, and a consultation model. The pilot program runs through the annual conference in Moscow in June, 2007. The future of the program will be determined following an evaluation.

Partnership Model

The first model, referred to as the partnership model, pairs more experienced agencies with less experienced ones. For the partnership model, three to four pairs of experienced and newer agencies have agreed to establish regular contacts and to facilitate inquiries between each other. Each pair of agencies will work together to establish a scope of assistance and avenues of communication that work best for them. It is hoped that the relationships will be flexible, informal ones that are not excessively burdened with procedural requirements. For the purpose of the pilot test, partnership groups have been formed in a manner consistent, to the extent feasible, with the principle that technical assistance is more likely to be effective if the recipient agency has significant control over the process. While the pilot project is due to conclude in June, 2007, relationships or initiatives that are ongoing past this date may continue if the agencies involved agree. An agency's participation in a partnership of this sort will not in any way precludes it from seeking or receiving advice from another agency.

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