Challenges in the Implementation of Competition Law

ADBI's director of Capacity Building and Training department, Worapot Manupipatpong, speaking about competition law at the Bangkok workshop.

The Regional Workshop on the Challenges in the Implementation of Competition Law was jointly organized by ADBI, the ASEAN Secretariat, and the Department of Internal Trade of Thailand on 11–12 November in Bangkok. More than 50 middle-senior officials from competition or related agencies in ASEAN countries, PRC, Mongolia, India, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka exchanged their views and experiences on advocacy, enforcement, drafting of competition law, and institutional capacity building with experts from US Federal Trade Commission, Japan Fair Trade Commission, Australian Competition and Consumer Commission, Office of Fair Trading (UK), and Bundeskartellamt (also known as the German Federal Cartel Office). The workshop found, among others things, that: (i) raising public awareness facilitates information gathering; (ii) combined financial and individual sanctions, backed by strong leniency policy, are effective in deterring future violation of competition law; and (iii) engaging and retaining the right talent, leveraging on technology, streamlining the process, and regular trainings are institutional requirements for effective competition enforcement.

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