Editores: Paul Lugard, Dave Anderson

Autores: Alejandra Palacios, Alessandra Tonazzi, Alan Fels

The International Competition Network (ICN) is a unique phenomenon. As a virtual and informal
network of competition enforcement agencies from around the world, it has in less than two
decades become the single most authoritative platform in the field of international competition
law and policy. Currently uniting more than 140 competition authorities from developed and
developing countries, the ICN has made significant contributions to the harmonization and
converge once of procedural and substantive competition law and policy in the area of cartels,
unilateral conduct and mergers. Moreover, the ICN has stimulated competition authorities to
streamline procedures, pay due attention to procedural fairness guarantees for parties under
investigation and to build up agency capacity, resources and knowledge to review and assess
potentially anti-competitive conduct in addition to collaborating more effectively across
jurisdictions on enforcement and policy. In doing so, the activities of the ICN are of direct
importance to consumers worldwide.


As a successor to The International Competition Network at Ten, a collection of commentaries
that was published at the occasion of the ICN’s tenth anniversary in 2011, this publication again
brings together a number of essays written by leading competition agency officials, private
sector lawyers and academics on the accomplishments and aspirations of the ICN at the end
of its second decade.


The essays included in this book provide insights into the origins of the ICN, cover the activities
that the network has embarked upon during the past decade, explore its accomplishments
and the future directions that the organization will embark upon in a challenging but exciting
time that is witnessing a resurgence of popular interest in competition law, including an almost
global backlash against parts of the tech industry and attempts to accommodate sustainability
considerations, labor law issues and other public interest policies within competition law
and, more recently, some dramatic geopolitical frictions. The authors and editors of this
International Competition Law at Twenty book have sought to contribute to the history of the
ICN through this collection at the dawn of the organization’s third decade.



TABLE OF CONTENTS



Foreword.
Andreas Mundt



Acknowledgements.
Dave Anderson .



The ICN at Twenty. Origins, Accomplishments and Aspirations: An Introduction.
Paul Lugard



A Century with the ICN Maria Coppola, Elizabeth Kraus, Cynthia Lagdameo, Paul
O’Brien, and Randolph Tritell



2010–2020 Achievements of the ICN Working Groups.
Graeme Jarvie and Michele Pacillo



The Impact of the ICN on the ACCC.
Rod Sims and Marcus Bezzi



20 Years of South Africa’s Partnership with the ICN
Tembinkosi Bonakele



Linked-In: Antitrust and the Virtues of a Virtual Network – Looking Back and Forward.
Eleanor M. Fox



The Regionalisation of Competition Law. A Future Role for the International Competition
Network (ICN)?
Eyad Maher M. Dabbah



Rethinking Advocacy.
Allan Fels



Antitrust Compliance – Encouraging Corporate Compliance Eff orts.
Anne Riley



The Devil is in the Enforcement: Polish Merger Procedure in the Light of the ICN Guiding
Principles and Best Practices.
Mateusz Mateusz Bfachucki



ICN Due Process Initiatives over the Decades and the CAP’s Promise of Accountability.
James F. Rill and Jana I. Seidl



ICN Framework for Competition Agency Procedures (ICN CAP).
Eddy De Smijter and Filip Kubík



Th e Second Decade of ICN in Brazil: An overview and perspectives for Latin America.
Paulo Burnier da Silveira



Engaging Economists in the ICN: Uniting under a Common Language.
Martin Mandorff



The ICN at 20 – Looking ahead.
Margarida Matos Rosa



Th e ICN’s Role in Transforming Cartel Enforcement.
Neil Campbell and Guy Pinsonnault.



Who is Global if Not the ICN? ICN Milestones and the Future of the Agencies Network.
Andreas Mundt.



Development of Competition Law as Refl ected in the ICN
Siún O’Keeffe



Special Project on Sustainable Development and Competition Law: The Beginning of an
even more Beautiful Friendship?
Csaba Kovács and Aranka Nagy



Surveying the Surveys: The Drive for Implementation of the ICN’s Recommended Practices
for Merger Notifi cation and Review Procedures.
Dave Anderson and Paul Culliford



The Next Frontier of International Cooperation in Competition Enforcement.
John Pecman and Duy D Pham



How ICN and UNCTAD Can Work Together in International Cartel Enforcement Beyond
2020. Experiences of the UNCTAD Discussion Group on International Cooperation.
Pierre M. Horna



ICN’s Evolution from Start-Up to Global Leader.
Leah McCoy



Governance Design of the Regulatory Network: Th e ICN as an Experimentalist Network?
Yane Svetiev



China’s Competition Law and Policy in an International Comparative Context.
Huang Yong, Nell Lixia Zhou, and Tang Jinglun



The Times Th ey are A-Changing: What ICN for the Next Decade?
Alessandra Tonazzi



The Role of the International Competition Network in the Digital Era.
Alejandra Palacios and Heidi Sada



The Economics of International Competition Policy: New Challenges in the Light of
Digitization?
Oliver Budzinski



Developments and Prospects for the Discussion and Regulation of “Abuse of Superior
Bargaining Position” in the Digital Age.
Kazuyuki Sugimoto