UNCTAD : The Intergovernmental group of experts on Competition Law and Policy of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development holds its 15th annual meeting highlighting the emergence of BRICS countries in the area of International Competition Law and Policy

*This article is an automatic translation of the original article, provided here for your convenience. Read the original article. The fifteenth session of UNCTAD's Intergovernmental Group of Experts (IGE) on Competition Law and Policy was held in Geneva from 19 to 21 October 2016, in the context of a major renewal of the UNCTAD secretariat in charge of the work of the IGE: for the first time in its thirty-six years of existence, the secretariat's Competition and Consumer Affairs Division has been administered since early October 2016 by a new Director from the community of competition experts, a former head of a national competition and consumer authority, namely Teresa Moreira, the outgoing Director-General of Consumer Affairs of Portugal and former Member of the Portuguese