Announcement: International Roundtable on Antitrust Regulation
The HSE-Skolkovo Institute for Law & Development, the Centre for Law, Economics and Society at the University College London, and the international organisation CUTS International will, on March 20 in New Delhi, hold an international round table devoted to the discussion of global business and market concentration in the agri-industrial complex.
The roundtable will be held within the framework of the annual conference on competition of the International Competition Network. The International Competition Network is an association of antitrust bodies from different countries around the world. The annual conferences discuss the role of competition law in ensuring economic growth and sustainable development, international experience in antitrust regulation, current problems and ways to improve the effectiveness of legal practice.
During the round table, it is planned to discuss methodological approaches to analysing the consequences for the state of competition regarding global dealings in economic concentration in food markets, as well as possible measures of antimonopoly response of the organisation member countries. The event will be attended by representatives of competition authorities of the BRICS countries, the European Commission, the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), as well as leading experts in the field of competition law and policy.
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Roundtable Program
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15.00-15.15
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Gathering of participants
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15.15-16.00 |
"Discussion of global dealings of market concentration in the agri-industrial complex"
Moderator:
Alexey Ivanov - Director, The Skolkovo Higher School of Economics Institute for Law & Development
Speakers:
Andrey Tsyganov - Deputy Head of the Federal Antimonopoly Service of Russia;
Tembinkosi Bonakele - Head of the Competition Authority of South Africa;
Frederick Jenny - Chairman of the OECD Competition Committee.
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16.00-16.15 |
Coffee break
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16:15-17:00 |
Speakers:
Ioannis Lianos - Senior Researcher, Higher School of Economics Skolkovo Institute for Law & Development, Professor at the School of Law, University College of London and Director of the Centre for Law, Economics and Society;
Kumar Uzhval - Analyst, CUTS International.
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Other Participants:
Liberty Mncube, Chief Economist, South African Competition Commission
Paulo Furquim de Azevedo, Professor of the School of Law, University of Innsbr, Brazil
Alessandra Tonazzi, Director for International and European Affairs of the Italian Competition Commission
Tembinkozi Bonakele, Commissioner, South African Competition Commission
Sachin Goyal, Director, Competition Commission of India
Alexander Cordeiro, Superintendent of the Commission for Administrative Protection of Competition (CADE), Brazil
Diego Thomson de Andrade, Deputy Chief Superintendent of the Commission for Administrative Protection of Competition (CADE), Brazil
Noemi Melo Colin, Commissioner of the Commission for Administrative Protection of Competition (CADE), Brazil