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From 26 to 27 February 2016, The
Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation’s
(“APEC”) Competition Policy and Law
Group (“CPLG”) meeting for 2016
was held in Lima, Peru. Amongst
the issues discussedwere the CPLG
2016 work plan, the CPLG database,
and selected key developments in
APEC’S COMPETITION POLICY
AND LAW GROUP MEETING 2016
Sorbonne-Assas International Law
School, together with Concurrences
Review and ESSEC Business School -
Singapore, organised a second edition
oftheAntitrustinAsiaConferencetitled
“Anti-trust in Asia: One size fits all?
ASEAN, China, Hong-Kong, India...” on
25April2016.Theconferenceexplored
opportunitiesandchallengesrelatingto
ANTITRUST IN ASIA CONFERENCE 2016
Visit to the Canadian Competition
Bureau.
28 MARCH 2016
22 - 24 MARCH
2016
25 APRIL
2016
28 MARCH
2016
17th Meeting of AEGC in Lao PDR
Canadian Competition Bureau visit
APECeconomies. At themeeting, CCS
presented on the topic of “Disruptive
Innovation and its implication for
enforcement of competition law –
The Singapore Experience”. Guest
presentations were also made by
World Bank and OECD to share their
experiences on their assistance to
countries in enhancing competition
lawenforcement andadvocacy to aid
the market reform process.
implementationofantitrustlawsinAsian
countriesanddiscussedemergingtopics
withsomeof themost prominent local
and international antitrust academics,
enforcers and practitioners.
CCS Chairman, Mr Aubeck Kam, in
his keynote speech, said that the
landscape in Asia will continue to be
characterisedbyconsiderablediversity
but there exist sufficient areas where
the challenges are faced in common.
Headded, “it is inareas suchaspublic
advocacy and evolving regulatory
responses to new technologies, that
arelikelytoseeamoreconsistentAsian
approach emerge”.
Atthesameevent,CCSChiefExecutive,
Mr Toh Han Li, took part in a panel
discussionon“Leniency,Transparency
and Procedural Rules in Competition
Law Enforcement in Asia: Is there a
need for Convergence?”
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