Stéphanie Yon-Courtin

Competition law and policy in Japan is based primarily on a 1947 Antimonopoly Law shaped by the United States after the defeat of 1945. Japan’s competition law will therefore celebrate its sixtieth anniversary in 2017. Japan’s institutional competition system is based on an independent (...)

The 13th round of TTIP negotiations was held in Brussels from 25 to 29 April 2016, marking, in the words of the German Missions in the United States, "a progress that is clearly perceptible. The latest EU reports show that good progress has been made in each of the 27 articles of the agreement, (...)

Hong Kong’s competition law was defined in 2012 by a Competition Ordinance, which provided for a transition period that has just ended on 15 December 2015. Since that date, the system of competition regulation in the "Special Administrative Region" (SAR) has taken on characteristics that bring (...)

January 1, 2016 marked the establishment of the ASEAN Economic Community (AEC), the Economic Community of Southeast Asian Association States (ASEAN) originally formed in 1967 in the context of the Vietnam War with the support of the United States and Japan (V. S. Yon-Courtin, "ASEAN Economic (...)

Continued work on the Standard Merger and Acquisition Reviews Through Equal Rules (SMARTER) Act (H.R.5402) In early March 2015, Republican Senators Mike Lee and Orrin Hatch announced their intention to introduce legislation in the Senate to reform and modernize U.S. antitrust enforcement. The (...)

Last year, the Euro-Mediterranean Competition Forum was launched in an informal legal framework, but in the UN premises in Geneva where UNCTAD’s activities are carried out (see F. Souty - S. Yon-Courtin, "Euro-Mediterranean Competition Forum, first workshop", p. 3).). The work of this third (...)

The Antimonopoly Bureau of the Ministry of Foreign Trade (MOFCOM), one of the three Chinese competition authorities particularly in charge of merger control, issued on June 6, 2014 a "Guiding opinion" on the notification of business mergers. This "Guiding Opinion" is intended to show an (...)

Interview conducted by Stéphanie Yon, French External Trade in Normandy. 1. You have been appointed CEO of the Malaysia Competition Commission (MyCC) in 2011. What are your main missions and how are they articulated with those of the Chair of the MyCC? As the Chief Executive Officer of MyCC, (...)

The agreement reached in Bali between negotiators from 169 countries on 7 December 2013 represents the first international trade agreement on trade liberalisation and "trade facilitation" since the establishment of the WTO in 1995 decided by the Marrakech Ministerial Conference. A subsequent (...)

SAR Judicial Authority, appointment Hong Kong’s judiciary continues to build on the institutions recently established in the Special Administrative Region (SAR), including the establishment of the Competition Commission in April 2013 (see F. Souty, S. Yon-Courtin, "Hong Kong adopts (...)

UNCTAD, Euro-Mediterranean Competition Forum, 11 July 2013, Geneva, Switzerland The economic causes of the events related to the Arab Spring (monopolies by a few vertically integrated groups whose ownership was often confused with the families of the leaders of these countries, food riots due (...)

Guidelines on the Development of Core Competencies in ASEAN Competition Policy and Law, July 2013 Since the first steps towards the regionalization of competition law in the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) began in 2010, the year 2013 has seen some progress, which, although (...)

On June 12, John Pecman was appointed Commissioner, Head of Canada’s Competition Bureau for a five-year term. An economist with a Master of Arts degree from McMaster University, John Pecman began his career with the Competition Bureau in 1984. He has held various positions within the (...)

Federal Law 4 of 2012 Adopted on 23 October 2012, the Competition Law of the United Arab Emirates (Federal Law No. 4/2012), hereinafter referred to as "the Competition Law", entered into force on 23 February. The purpose of this Law is to protect and strengthen competition and to combat (...)

10 months after the official publication of the Hong Kong Competition Act (see F. Souty and S. Yon: "Competition Ordinance: Hong Kong adopts sophisticated competition law legislation after more than 6 years of discussions".), the Government of Hong Kong has recently established the Competition (...)

Competition policy in China in 2013 appears to be clearly supported at the highest level of government. It is set in a cycle of sustainable expansion and assigns a certain number of objectives to both competition authorities and market operators, as part of a process of Chinese economic (...)

On the sidelines of the last session of UNCTAD’s Intergovernmental Group of Experts (IGE) on Competition Law and Policy, various competition authority officials and representatives of civil society present in Geneva took the decision to federate the competition authorities and actors around the (...)

http://www.ftc.gov/opa/2012/09/indiamou.shtm target=_blank"->India-USA Antitrust memorandum of understanding, 27.09.12 Following the signing of a cooperation agreement on competition between China and the United States in Beijing in the summer of 2011, the competition authorities of the United (...)

http://www.diplonews.com" target="_blank"->EU-China summit, Antitrust memorandum of understanding, 21.09.12 The 15th Sino-European Summit was held in Brussels on 20 September 2012, with the European Union represented by Herman van Rompuy, President of the European Council and José Manuel (...)

Interview conducted by Stéphanie Yon-Courtin, French External Trade in Normandy. 1. What is your educational background? My background is in economics and I have over 20 years of experience in the Singapore public service, having worked in a number of ministries and statutory boards including (...)

Competition Ordinance, Ord. n°14 of 2012, A1323 After more than 6 years of work, long after Taiwan (1992), Singapore (2004) and even after the People’s Republic of China (2007), since the initial public consultations and after many compromises wrenched away by constant pressure from the business (...)

The Arab Spring revolutions began in 2010-2011 with revolts in civil society faced with an infinity of food shortages demonstrating various market failures, particularly in the field of retail distribution. This theme has often been put forward in the regional training seminars organised over (...)

Like the global economy, competition law and policy is thriving in East Asia. Southeast Asia is particularly active in this area. Driven by regional levers such as the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) (see S. Yon, "ASEAN issues competition guidelines", Concurrences n°4-2010), (...)

On 27 December 2011, the Director General of the Antimonopoly Bureau of the Ministry of Commerce (MOFCOM), one of the three Chinese competition authorities in charge of merger control, Mr Shang Ming, held a press conference in Beijing on the 2011 review of the implementation of Chinese (...)

Interview conducted by Stéphanie Yon Courting, French External Trade in Normandy. You were appointed Chairman of the Competition Commission (Comco) in July 2010 after several years with this competition authority. What were your various functions within the Comco and, more generally, what is (...)

Memorandum of Understanding ("MoU") on Competition, 27 July 2011 In view of the growing importance of Chinese competition law, designed for a market of more than 1.3 billion consumers, i.e. almost four times the number of consumers in the United States, it seemed useful for the American (...)

Tenth Annual Conference of the International Competition Network, 18-20 May 2011, The Hague, The Netherlands Exactly 10 years ago, at the initiative of the United States, some 20 competition authorities, mainly from developed countries, agreed in Naples to meet informally to discuss the (...)

1. What is your educational background? 2. Two weeks ago, you were confirmed CADE’s President by the Brazil’s President, Mrs Dilma Rousseff, until 18 January 2012. Although CADE is quite familiar to you, what made you choose a career in competition given your interesting professional experience (...)

2nd CUTS-CIRC International Conference, Reviewing the Global Experience on Economic Regulation - A forward looking perspective, New Delhi, April 18-20, 2011 The Indian consumer organisation CUTS, a non-governmental organisation, was very active in the first half of 2011. In July 2011, it was (...)

Tenth OECD Global Forum on Competition, Paris, 17-18 February 2011 The February regular session of the OECD Competition Committee and its Working Parties on Regulation and International Co-operation was held in Paris from 14 to 16 February. Open only to member and observer countries, it was (...)

The year 2010 is a particularly rich year for the Association of South East Asian Nations (ASEAN), which has just introduced a regional framework on competition law and policy and whose member States are increasingly adopting national competition rules. This column is the first part (of a set (...)

You have an economic background. Why did you decide to embrace a career in competition? After having chaired the Irish Competition Authority for 5 years, you became Chief Executive at the UK Office of Fair Trading. What are the main differences between the Irish and the UK competition framework (...)

What are your priorities for the FTC in the international antitrust scene? On the bilateral side, the US antitrust authorities recently signed an agreement with Russia. What do you concretely expect from this agreement? What kind of multilateral activities, if any, differentiate the US FTC from (...)

The annual conference of the International Competition Network (ICN) was held from 3 to 5 June in Zurich against the backdrop of the global economic crisis. This particular context inevitably poses many challenges for this key international organisation, exclusively dedicated to competition (...)

What was your inspiration to get involved in competition law and policy? Could you describe the competition law and policy framework in South Africa? How do the Competition Commission and the Competition Tribunal interact? Given the different degrees of competition development between the (...)

You were appointed as Chairman of the FTC in April 2008. However, the FTC is a well-known administration for you. Indeed, from 1979 to 1983, you served as a staff attorney and as an advisor to one of the FTC’s Commissioner. Later from 2001 until 2004, you served as the General Counsel of the (...)

International Competition Network (ICN/ICN), 8th Annual Conference, Kyoto, 29 May - 1 June 2008 As has been the case every year since its creation at the initiative of the United States in October 2001, the International Competition Network (ICN) held its annual conference (hereinafter "the (...)

International Competition Network (ICN) - Sixth Annual Conference in Moscow (29 May - 1 June 2007) The 6th annual conference of the International Competition Network, held in Moscow from 29 May to 1 June 2007, brought together numerous representatives of national competition authorities from (...)

United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD), 8th session of the Intergovernmental Group of Experts on Competition Law and Policy, Geneva, 17-19 July 2007 At the 8th session of the UNCTAD Intergovernmental Group of Experts in Geneva from 17 to 19 July 2007, among the (...)

The session of the OECD Competition Committee held in Paris from 19 to 22 February 2007 provided an opportunity for participating delegations to discuss four key topics, including an in-depth reflection on a major theme for further European economic integration in the energy sector: the means (...)

International Competition Network Conference in Cape Town from 2 to 5 May 2006 As it has every year since its creation at the initiative of the United States in October 2001, the International Competition Network (ICN) held its annual conference from 3 to 5 May 2006 in Cape Town, South Africa. (...)

USA Supreme Court, February 28, 2006, Texaco Inc, Petitioner v. Fouad N. Dagher and Shell Oil Company, Petitioner v. Fouad N. Dagher et al, No. 04-805 and No. 04-814 In the first quarter of 2006, the United States Supreme Court, now presided over by Judge Roberts, appointed by President G.W. (...)

Conference website In 1980, the United Nations General Assembly adopted a "Set of internationally recommended competition rules for the prosecution and punishment of anti-competitive practices". This text, better known as the "Set", is updated every five years by a United Nations Ministerial (...)

ICN, 4th annual Conference, Bonn, June 5-8, 2005 The International Competition Network (ICN), established on 25 October 2001 at the initiative of the United States, is an informal network of more than 90 competition authorities from developed and developing countries. In addition to these (...)

FTC Press Release, Announced Actions for 23 February 2005 FTC News Release, Announced Actions for 25 January 2005 The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has recently introduced some changes to the US merger notification rules. The Hart Scott Rodino Act of 1976 (HSR Act), enacted pursuant to the (...)

USA Supreme Court, 12 January 2005, US v. Booker, No. 04-104 This decision is important in that it calls into question the constitutionality of the Federal Sentencing Guidelines, which serve as a basis for antitrust authorities to sanction anti-competitive practices if certain conditions of (...)

The government is significantly strengthening the means used to promote its leniency policy (I). This reinforcement raises a series of questions about the consequences for the whistleblower in his cooperation in the civil trial (II), and about the impact of this leniency policy on international (...)