Reading Room: Organisational documents

OECD 2013 Report on the OECD/ICN Survey on International Enforcement Cooperation
DAF/COMP/WP3(2013)2, Working Party No 3 on Co-operation and Enforcement. 26 February 2013. See also Executive Summary of the Report.

Philip Collins, The OECD/ICN Joint Survey on International Enforcement Cooperation: A Ground Breaking Initiative (Press Release, 26 February 2013)

ICN Guiding Principles for Merger Notifcation and Review
Adopted at 2002 Annual Conference

ICN Recommended Practices for Merger Notification and Review Procedures
Adopted at First Annual Conference, Naples, Italy (September 28-29, 2002). Revised and/or comments added: Second Annual Conference, Mérida, Mexico (June 23-25, 2003); Third Annual Conference, Seoul, Korea (April 21-22, 2004); Fourth Annual Conference, Bonn, Germany (June 5-8, 2005); Fifth Annual Conference, Cape Town, South Africa (May 3-5, 2006)

ICN Recommended Practices for Merger Analysis
Adopted at Seventh Annual Conference, Kyoto, Japan (April 14-16, 2008). Revised Eighth Annual Conference, Zurich, Switzerland (June 3-5, 2009) and Ninth Annual Conference, Istanbul, Turkey (April 27-29,2010)

2011

ICN Merger Working Group Comprehensive Assessment 2010-2011
Document added to ICN site on 11 October 2011. Produced for Tenth Annual Conference, The Hague, Netherlands, 18-20 May 2011

2009

ICN Information Requirements for Merger Notification (June 2009)
Prepared by the Notification & Procedures Supgroup and presented at the 8th Annual Conference, Zurich, Switzerland, June 2009

2009

ICN, ‘Competition Law in Small Economies’ (prepared by Swiss Competition Commission and Israel Antitrust Authority as a Special Project for the 8th Annual Conference, 2009)

2007

Defining Merger Transactions for Purposes of Merger Review (2007)
Presented at Sixth Annual Conference, Moscow, Russia (May-June 2007)

2005

ICN Implementation of the ICN Recommended Practices for Merger Notification (April 2005)

ICN Merger Notification Filing Fees (April 2005)
Developed by Merger Notification & Procedures subgroup - report (27 pages) discusses the various types of filing fee regimes.

ICN Merger Remedies Review Report (June 2005)
Developed by ICN Merger Working Group: Analytical Framework Subgroup for the fourth ICN annual conference, Bonn (59 pages)

2004

ICN Report on the Costs and Burdens of Multijurisdictional Merger Review (November 2004)
Prepared by Mergers Working Group: Notification and Procedures Subgroup (26 pages)

ICN Report on Merger Guidelines (April 2004)
This links to the overview chapter of the Project on Merger Guidelines prepared by the ICN Merger Working Group: Analytical Framework Subgroup for the third ICN annual conference in Seoul. Other chapters are: Market Definition, Unilateral effects, Coordinated Effects, Barriers to entry and expansion and Efficiencies.

2003

ICN Merger Investigative Techniques Compendium of Investigative Tools
Report setting out results from a 2002 questionnaire submitted to ICN members - second annual conference, Merida, Mexico (June 2003)

2002

ICN The Analytical Framework for Merger Control 2002
Discussion paper produced for First Annual Conference, Naples, Italy (28-29 September 2002)

Undated

ICN Framework for Merger Review Cooperation
Document undated, but uploaded to ICN site 12 June 2012

ICN Model Confidentiality Waiver (Mergers) (Discussion Paper)
Developed by Merger Notification & Procedures subgroup. Iillustrative agency waiver forms.

2005 Recommendation concerning Merger Review

OECD 1999 Report on Positive Comity

OECD 1999 Report on Notification of Transnational Mergers

The Wood-Whish Report - Merger Cases in the Real World: A Study of Merger Control Procedures (OECD, 1994)

OECD Competition Policy Roundtables

OECD Policy Rountables: Market Definition (2012) DAF/COMP(2012)24 (11 October 2012)

OECD Policy Rountables: Impact of Evaluation of Merger Decisions (June 2011) DAF/COMP(2011)24 (18 September 2012)

OECD Policy Rountables: Economic Evidence in Merger Analysis DAF/COMP(2011)23 (27 July 2012)

OECD Policy Roundtables: Remedies in Merger Cases DAF/COMP(2011)13 (30 July 2012) (Rountable No 125)

OECD Policy Rountables: Cross-Border Merger Control: Challenges for Developing and Emerging Economies DAF/COMP/GF(2011)13 (2011) (Rountable No 122)

OECD Policy Roundtables: Failing Firm Defence (DAF/COMP(2009)38) (2009) (Roundtable No 103)

OECD Policy Roundtables: The Standard for Merger Review, with a Particular Emphasis on Country Experience with the change of Merger Review Standard from the Dominance Test to the SLC/SIEC Test (DAF/COMP(2009)21) (2009) (Roundtable No 102)

OECD Policy Roundtables: Competition Policy, Industrial Policy and National Champions (DAF/COMP/GF(2009)9) (2009) (Roundtable No 96)

OECD Policy Roundtables: Managing Complex Mergers (DAF/COMP(2007)44) (2007) (Roundtable No 83)

OECD Policy Roundtables: Dynamic Efficiencies in Merger Analysis (DAF/COMP(2007)41) (2007) (Roundtable No 77)

OECD Policy Roundtables: Vertical Mergers (DAF/COMP(2007)21) (2007) (Roundtable No 68)

OECD Policy Roundtables: Merger Remedies (DAF/COMP(2004)21) (2004) (Roundtable No 48)

OECD Policy Roundtables: Media Mergers (DAFFE/COMP(2003)16) (2003) (Roundtable No 44)

OECD Policy Roundtables: Substantive Criteria Used for the Assessment of Mergers (DAFFE/COMP(2003)5) (2003) (Roundtable No 42)

OECD Policy Roundtables: Merger Review in Emerging High Innovation Markets (DAFFE/COMP(2002)20) (2002) (Roundtable No 20)

OECD Policy Roundtables: Portfolio Effects in Conglomerate Mergers (DAFFE/COMP(2002)5) (2001) (Roundtable No 37)

OECD Policy Roundtables: Mergers in Financial Services (DAFFE/CLP(2000)17) (2000) (Roundtable No 29)

OECD Policy Roundtables: Airline Mergers and Alliances (DAFFE/CLP(2000)1) (2000) (Roundtable No 26)

OECD Policy Roundtables: Efficiency Claims in Mergers and Other Horizontal Arrangements (OCDE/GD(96)65) (1995) (Roundtable No 4)

OECD Policy Roundtables: Failing Firm Defence (OCDE/GD(96)23) (1995) (Roundtable No 2)

EU submissions | US submissions

EU submissions

EU Submission, Remedies in Merger Cases
(to Working Party No. 3 on Co-operation and Enforcement, June 2011 (DAF/COMP/WP3/WD(2011)59))

EU Submission, Impact evaluation of merger decisions
(to Competition Committee, June 2011 (DAF/COMP/WD(2011)59))

EU Submission, Economic evidence in Merger analysis
(to Working Party No. 3 on Co-operation and Enforcement, February 2011 (DAF/COMP/WP3/WD(2011)26))

EU Submission, Cross-border Merger Control: Challenges for developing and emerging economies
(to OECD Global Forum on Competition, February 2011 (DAF/COMP/GF/WD(2011)23))

EU Submission, Roundtable on standard for merger review, with a particular emphasis on country experience with the change of merger review standard from the dominance test to the SLC/SIEC test
(to OECD Working Party No. 3 on Co-operation and Enforcement, June 2009 (DAF/COMP/WP3/WD(2009)11))

US submissions

US Submission, Discussion on International Co-operation
(to OECD Working Party No 3 on Co-operation and Enforcement, 12 June 2012 (DAF/COMP/WP3/WD(2012)24))

US Submission, Roundtable on Market Definition
(to OECD Competition Committee, June 2012 (DAF/COMP/WD(2012)27))

US Submission, Roundtable on Impact Evaluation of Merger Decisions
(to OECD Competition Committee, June 2011 (DAF/COMP/WD(2011)58))

US Submission, Rountable on Remedies in Merger Cases
(to OECD Working Party No 3 on Co-operation and Enforcement, June 2011)

US Submission, Roundtable on Cross-Border Merger Control: Challenges for Developing and Emerging Economies
(to Global Forum on Competition, February 2011)