Seminar: "Competition Law and Policy in the Food Value Chain: Is there a Call for a BRICS Competition Law Paradigm?”

On November 14th in the framework of the Antitrust BRICS Conference in South Africa, the Institute for Law and Development, in collaboration with UCL and with the University of Cape Town, held a workshop on the implementation of competitive practices in the food sector, and discussed the prospects for the development of competition policy of the BRICS countries in other economic areas.

he workshop consisted of four roundtables: 1. Competition platforms and opportunities for antitrust regulation in the sphere of primary production: competition in the field of transgenic seeds and BRICS 2. Significant advantages of negotiating positions in the final delivery: are there problems for antitrust law? 3. Agricultural cooperatives in antitrust law and policy, and reduction of antitrust exemptions for agriculture 4. Innovative strategies for breeding seeds, pesticides and agricultural biotechnology: the interaction between competition law and the regulation of IP on an international level and in developing jurisdictions.

 

The seminar was attended by representatives of the competition authorities of BRICS, professors and researchers from leading international universities. The main speakers, in addition to the leaders of the Institute Alexey Ivanov and Ioannis Lianos, were the following experts: Dennis Davis, judge of the Supreme court of South Africa, and professor at the University of Cape Town, a permanent partner of the Institute, who hosted the seminar; Andrey Shastitko, head of the Department of Competition and Industrial Policy of the Lomonosov Moscow State University Economic Faculty; Eleanor Fox, Professor at New York University Law School; Xianlin Wang, Professor of Shanghai's Jiao Tong University; Paulo Burnier Da Silveira, Commissioner of the Administrative Council for the Economic Defence of Brazil (CADE), and others.