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ICN: International Policy Agency

By Michael Lines

The International Competition Network (ICN) is a group concerned to encourage competition-friendly policy changes in member nations. Canada’s Competition Bureau is a member.

Founded in 2001, the ICN

…provides competition authorities with a specialized yet informal venue for maintaining regular contacts and addressing practical competition concerns. This allows for a dynamic dialogue that serves to build consensus and convergence towards sound competition policy principles across the global antitrust community.

Unlike the G8 and some other more shadowy international groups, the ICN has a secretariat, and thus presumable also collects and maintains files of its own creation. The website includes a searchable database of its documents. For instance, this brief on “Competition Advocacy in Poland” covers a whole gamut of initatives that might be undertaken by the The Office of Competition and Consumer Protection. From the looks of it, some of the ICN’s suggestions have been taken up in Poland.

Full post as published by Slaw.ca on October 08, 2010 (boomark / email).