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CCC participates in Latin American Competition Forum 2015

The 13th Latin American Competition Forum (LACF)  was held in Montego Bay, Jamaica on 23-24 September 2015. It was hosted by the Jamaica Fair Trading Commission (FTC). The LACF 2015 was notable for being the first occasion in which an English speaking member state of the LACF was hosting the forum. The LACF is jointly sponsored by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) and the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB). The LACF’s objective is to promote dialogue, consensus building and networking between the region’s competition policymakers and law enforcers, and to identify and disseminate best practices in competition law and policy in a collegial setting.

The agenda for the 13th LACF included three sessions:
i)    Structural issues in the groceries sector: Mergers and regulatory issues;
ii)    Measuring competition advocacy's impact in Latin America and the Caribbean; and
iii)    Competition issues in the groceries sector: Focus on conduct.

The CARICOM Competition Commission (CCC) contributed to the second item on the agenda by submitting and presenting a paper on its efforts in measuring the impact of its competition advocacy. The paper can be accessed at http://www.oecd.org/officialdocuments/publicdisplaydocumentpdf/?cote=DAF/COMP/LACF(2015)3&docLanguage=En

In addition, as with the previous 12 meetings, the morning of the first day of the LACF was devoted to celebrating the national competition day of the host country. The theme of  Jamaica Competition Day focused on developments in the ITC sector, under the title: “Transforming Jamaica Digitally: From Flintstones to Jetsons”. Chairman of the CCC, Dr. Kusha Haraksingh, was one of the guest speakers who provided opening remarks at the Jamaica Competition Day Seminar.