Member States may ask the UEMOA Commission for exemption from the competition provisions where the application of the provisions would frustrate public interest objectives.

Chapter III SUBSTANTIVE PROVISIONS RELATING TO COMPETITION LAWS

With regard to priorities, he stressed the need for more resources to enforce core competition provisions and for the FTC to limit its activities under the unfair trade practices provisions to conduct that had a significant impact on competition.

Such a practice rightly prohibited outright by section 5(2) of the Competition Act.

A PRESENTATION OF TYPES OF COMMON PROVISIONS TO BE FOUND IN INTERNATIONAL, PARTICULARLY BILATERAL AND REGIONAL, COOPERATION AGREEMENTS ON COMPETITION POLICY AND THEIR APPLICATION

Unlike in the case of the EU competition provisions, NAFTA members have not committed themselves explicitly to developing any form of supranational competition law.

Seminars aimed at sensitizing businessmen and consumers on all aspects of competition, as well as on the provisions of the competition law itself.

Economic competition is distorted and public funds are squandered.

The responsibilities of competition supervision defined in this Act (and in Act No. LXXXVII of 1990 on Price Setting, see below under F) are performed by the Office of Economic Competition (hereinafter also OEC, the Office) except in connection with the prohibition of unfair competition where proceedings in connection with the infringement of the provisions contained in chapter II of the Act belong to the competence of the court.

An example of one agreement is provided in an annex.

Common regional competition rules

32. The spokesman for the African Group (Morocco) said that his Group attached great importance to the issue of competition law and policy.

Nothing in this Article limits the discretion of the requested Party's competition authorities under its competition laws and enforcement policies as to whether to undertake enforcement activities with respect to the anticompetitive practices identified in a request, nor precludes the requesting Party's competition authorities from undertaking enforcement activities with respect to such anticompetitive practices.

The draft articles contained no dispute settlement provisions.

Is such competition a fact of life or would countries be better off competing on fundamentals?

Article 7 of the ordinance on competition prohibits

The Mexican competition authority found that the association had engaged in unlawful price fixing and imposed a fine.

The first condition is that the concentration is likely to jeopardize competition.

Available on the website of the South African Competition Commission at www.compcom.co.za .

Look, mister, I'm in a very competitive business.

Competition law and policy is addressed more extensively in African subregional agreements, often on the basis of the model of the Treaty of RomeThe Treaty Establishing the Economic and Monetary Community of Central Africa (CEMAC) provides for the establishment of common competition rules to control both RBPs and Government activities two regulations dealing respectively with these two subjects have been adopted.

Article 7 Insurance companies shall observe the principle of fair competition when conducting insurance business and shall never engage in unfair competition.

Competition laws how should existing regulations on competition be amended to take account of the advent of electronic commerce?

(b) The conditions and procedures that would govern exports of such equipment or material in order to meet the obligations of article III, paragraph 2 on a basis of fair commercial competition.

The court, in its competition supervision proceedings relating to unfair competition, chapter II of the Act, may reach decisions which are similar to those of the Office of Economic Competition, with some self evident differences and with the basic difference that it may grant also damages, subject to the provisions of the civil law.

A company or individual that obtains a contract because of illicit payments has gained an unfair advantage over other competitors.

(a) Provision of conditions of service that are progressive and competitive

The important thing was to encourage production rather than to ensure competition.

Furthermore, his Group believed that UNCTAD provided the most appropriate forum for dealing with the issue of competition law and policies.

The role of competition law and policy in facilitating market entry by small and medium sized firms and in promoting economic development, and the relationship between competition policy and the informal sector

In recommending a model competition agreement, attention should be paid to the needs of developing countries, and any multilateral competition framework should include special provisions and carve outs for developing countries.

Presentations were made on competition policy as part of general economic policy, specific substantive aspects of competition legislation and experiences of African countries in developing competition law and policy

We will never create a fully fledged market economy until we lay its foundation, that is free competition, which in turn calls for demonopolization, the formation of a competitive environment, State regulation of natural monopolies and competition for State orders.

GLOBALIZATION, COMPETITION, COMPETITIVENESS AND DEVELOPMENT

Legal consequences attached by the Act to the infringement of this provision shall be applied together with those attached by the Civil Code to contracts infringing the law (article 11 (3)), i.e. agreements restricting economic competition are void pursuant to the referred Civil Code provision.

See Communication de l'Union Economique et Monétaire Ouest Africaine, Intergovernmental Group of Experts on Competition Law and Policy, Sixth Session

The competition law may not provide for sufficiently large fines or other sanctions.

(a) A meeting on competition law and policy, as called for in the report of the Expert Meeting on Competition Law and Policy

The fine was the third largest imposed to date by the Turkish agency.

programmes on competition law and policy

His competition authority was ready to contribute to the implementation and development of the competition policy provisions of the Southern African Customs Union.

The second condition is that this concerted action must actually constitute an obstacle to competition, under the provisions of article 6 of the ordinance, either by preventing competition or by restricting it or distorting the free operation of market forces.

The Commission referred the case to the Competition Tribunal, recommending that a fine of up to 10 per cent of the turnover of each respondent be imposed.

Settlement of disputes (art. 35, para.

Settlement of disputes (art. 15, para.