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CCS WORK PLAN SEMINAR 2016
On 22 January 2016, CCS held its
annualWorkPlanSeminaratTemasek
Club. Theserenityof thesurroundings
facilitated the conversations which
set the theme for CCS’s work plan
in the new financial year.
Besides taking into consideration
the overall economic outlook, CCS
used the SWOT analysis to identify
potential impact and implications
of key trends af fecting the
operating landscape. In particular,
the SWOT analysis enables CCS
to spot emerging trends and
growth opportunities, constraints
and threats, both internally
and externally.
CCS’s priorities for 2016 and
2017 are set against its operating
environment and the resulting
opportunities and challenges CCS
will be facing. They are broadly
clustered along these themes:
Enforcement
Robust and credible enforcement
will always remain a cornerstone
of CCS’s work. CCS will continue to
enforce against cartels that harm
competition and to aid this, CCS will
conduct bid-rigging workshops for
government agencies to help them
identify possible cartels relating
to government procurement.
Enforcement efforts will also be
strengthened througheffectiveuseof
commitments and remedies, aswell
as through enhancement of CCS’s
case detection frameworks to better
detect anti-competition conduct (for
example, potentially anti-competitive
and un-notified mergers).
E-commerce
Globally, digitisation is changing
competition dynamics and creating
new market opportunities. CCS,
together with other relevant
government agencies, can work
to help our Small and Medium
Enterprises (“SMEs”) leverage
technology innovations to tap on new
growth areas and to expand their
regional or global reach, especially
in e-commerce.
International
Outside Singapore, CCS will
focus on fostering closer working
ties with our key counterparts
overseas to further strengthen
Competition Policy and Law (“CPL”)
development and cooperation in
the region. Furthermore, there will
be a continual effort to deepen
engagement with our counterparts
in ASEAN to ensure an effective
regional CPL that will reap the
benefits of the ASEAN Economic
Community (“AEC”) Blueprint
2025 and support the formation
of a competitive, innovative and
dynamic ASEAN.
Outreach & Stakeholder
Engagement
Enforcement andoutreach/advocacy
go hand-in-hand towards achieving
effective competition. CCS will
continue to develop and implement
various engagement platforms with
the government, public, businesses
and other stakeholder groups to
garner support for itswork. Thiswill
involve identifying newopportunities
and models for various stakeholder
engagement programmes and
platforms, and finding ways to build
relationshipswithkeystakeholders.
Market Entry/ Expansion
CCS will ensure that markets, both
domestic and international, remain
open to entry, to allow for continuous
innovationandnewbusinessmodels.
CCS can achieve this though various
tools such as enforcement ormarket
studies to identify bottlenecks.
Competitive Pricing
CCS will look into how our
interventions can help to achieve
more competitive pricing to help
rein in costs for businesses and
consumers. One way is to help
consumers exercisemore informed
choices by improving availability of
price information aswell as reducing
transaction costs (for example,
switching cost) for consumers.
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