Conference Documents

List of the 6^th ICN Conference documents
  
A STATEMENT OF ICN ACHIEVEMENTS, June 2006 – May 2007 (doc)
 
Opening Ceremony

Speech of Igor Artemiev, Head of the Federal Antimonopoly Service

Unilateral Conduct Working Group 

Unilateral Conduct Working Group Work Plan 2007-2008 (doc)
      
Unilateral Conduct Report (pdf), including chapters on:
                Objectives of Unilateral Conduct Rules, 
                Assessment of Dominance/Significant Market Power,
                State-Created Monopolies 
  
Discussion Draft “Dominance/Substantial Market Power Analysis Pursuant to Unilateral Conduct Laws” (doc)  
 
Presentations on Panel Session:  

Presentation of Randolph Tritell, Director of the Office of International Affairs, Federal Trade Commission USA (ptt)
Speech of Randolph Tritell, Director of the Office of International Affairs, Federal Trade Commission USA (doc)
Presentation of Dr Bernhard Heitzer, President of the Bundeskartellamt (ptt)
Speach of Andrey Tsarikovskiy, Deputy Head, Federal Antimonopoly Service of the Russian Federation (doc)

Presentation of Emil Paulis, Acting Deputy Director General for Antitrust, DG Competition, European Commission (ptt)

Presentations on Beakout Sessions:
Presentation of Charles Webb, Legal Adviser, Jersey Competition Regulatory Authority, on Case Study in the Assessment of Dominance (ptt)
Presentation of Vladimir Kachalin, Councilor of the Head of the Federal Antimonopoly Service of the Russian Federation, on State-created monopolies (ptt)
Presentation on Objectives of Unilateral Conduct Rules (ptt)

 
Competition Policy Implementation Working Group 
  
Options for Future Work 2007-2008 (doc)

Sub group Effectiveness of Technical Assistance
Findings related to Technical Assistance for Newer Competition Agencies (pdf)
Advertisement for the Partnership/Consultation Program (ptt)

Sub group Enhancing the Standing of Competition Authorities with Business Experiences of Young Agencies
Report on an Assessment of Institutional Machinery: Methods Used in Competition Agencies and what worked for them (pdf)

Sub group Competition and the Judiciary
Report on Competition and the Judiciary (pdf)
 
Presentations on Panel Session:
 

Presentation of Russell Damtoft, Associate Director, Office of International Affairs, Federal Trade Commission, USA

Presentation of Elizabeth Farina, President of Council for Economic Defence of Brazil (ptt)

Presentation of Joseph G. Krauss, Lawyer, Chair, Mergers and Acquisitions Committee of the Antitrust Section of the American Bar Association (ptt)

Presentations on Breakout Sessions:

Presentation of Prof. Dr. Francisco Marcos, Professor of Law, IE Business School, Director, Competition Service, on An Assessment of CP Institutional Machinery: Methods used in Competition Agencies and what Worked for Them (ptt)

Presentation of Prof. Eleanor M. Fox, New York University Law School, on Improving technical assistance for newer agencies implementing the findings (ptt)

Presentation of Aini Proos and Russell Damtoft on The Partnership and Consultation Program (ptt)

Presentation of Robert Neruda, Director of the Chairman’s Cabinet, Czech Republic, on Judicial Review in Competition Cases in the Czech Republic (ptt)

Presantations on Panel Session:

Presentation of Maria Coppola Tineo, USA Federal Trade Commission (ptt)
Presentation of Joseph Winterscheid, an NGA from McDermott Will & Emery LLP, USA (ptt)
Presentation of John Evans, Manager of Policy Division, Irish Competition Authority (ptt)

Cartel Working Group
  
Cartel Working Group Work Plan (pdf)

Sub group General Legal Framework
Report on “Co-operation between competition agencies in cartel investigations”  (pdf)
Report on "Interaction of Public and Private Enforcement in Cartel Cases" (pdf)

Sub group Enforcement Techniques
Anti-Cartel Enforcement Manual Chapter on Cartel Case Initiation (pdf)

 
Merger Working Group
  
Merger Working Group Work Plan (pdf)

Sub group Notification & Procedures
Report on Defining “Merger” Transactions for Purposes of Merger Review (pdf)

Presentations on Panel Session:

Presentation of Scott Hammond, Deputy Assistant Attorney General, Department of Justice USA, and Shelley Rowe, Senior Competition Law Officer, Criminal Matters Branch, Competition Bureau, Canada
Presentation of Andreas Mundt, Head of Section, General Competition Law Issues, Bundeskartellamt, Germany, and Mariana Tavares, Legal Officer, Anticompetitive Practices Department, Competition Authority of Portugal (ptt)

Panel Discussion: Competition and Development 
Presentation of Igor Artemiev, Head of the Federal Antimonopoly Service, Russian Federation (ptt)
Speech of Igor Artemiev, Head of the Federal Antimonopoly Service, Russian Federation (doc)
Presentation of Ferenc Vissi, Consultant, Vissi Consulting LLC, Hungary (ptt)

Presentation of Shyam Khemani, Advisor, Competition Policy, The World Bank Group (ptt)
Speech of Vladimir Kachalin, Councillor of the Head of the Federal Antimonopoly Service of the Russian Federation (pdf)

Speech  of Eduardo  Perez Motta, Chairman,  Mexican Federal Competition Commission (doc)

Speech of David Lewis, Chairperson of the Competition Tribunal of South Africa (doc)
Speech of Blanca Rodriguez-Galindo, European Commission (doc)

Implementation Panel Discussion 
    
Presentation of Abel Moreira Mateus, President of the Portuguese Competition Authority and a Professor of Economics at New University of Lisbon, Portugal (ptt)
Presentation of Mariana Tavares de Araujo, Secretary of Economic Law of the Ministry of Justice, Brazil (ptt)
Presentation of Andrey Tsyganov, Deputy Head of the Federal Antimonopoly Service, Russian Federation (ptt)
Speech of Andrey Tsyganov, Deputy Head of the Federal Antimonopoly Service, Russian Federation (pdf)
Speech of Antonio Catricalà, Chairman of the Italian Competition Authority (pdf)
Presentation of Sia Aik Kor, Director of Legal and Enforcement, Competition Commission of Singapore (ptt)
Presentation of Omar Wakil, Partner, Torys LLP, NGA from Canada (ppt)

Presentation of Martin Pecina, Chairman, Office for the Protection of Competition Czech Republic (ptt)
    

Report Back, Adoption of Work, and Future Work Plans
Unilateral Working Group (ptt)
Cartel Working Group (ptt)

Closing Ceremony

Closing speech Igor Artemiev, Head of the Federal Antimonopoly Service, Russian Federation

Welcome speech to the 2008 Kyoto Annual Conference by Kazuhiko Takeshima Chairman of the Japan Fair Trade Commission