International Liaison

Over 100 jurisdictions have competition laws. With the globalisation of business, it has become essential for competition agencies to cooperate with their counterparts in other jurisdictions in the enforcement of their respective competition laws. The Competition Commission (Commission)  has started to establish working relationships with many overseas competition agencies, bilaterally and through intergovernmental bodies.  The Commission has already benefitted greatly from these relationships.

International Forums

International Competition Network (ICN)

The Commission joined the ICN on 4 December 2013.

The ICN is an international network established in October 2001, now comprising more than 130 member competition authorities with the common aim of addressing practical competition enforcement and policy issues. It is not an inter-governmental organisation but organised by and for the competition authorities.

The ICN promotes efficient and effective competition enforcement worldwide to the benefit of consumers and businesses. It also seeks to develop and promote procedural and substantive benchmarks, and to support newer competition authorities in their efforts to enforce their competition laws and to build a competition culture in their jurisdictions.

The Commission has been an active member of the ICN and is engaged in the work of various ICN Working Groups. In 2018, it was appointed as the co-chair of the Advocacy Working Group with a view to promoting a competition culture through non-enforcement means.

The Commission also took part in the Cartel Working Group's initiative to promote access to information about ICN members' anti-cartel enforcement regimes. Under this initiative, each member completed an Anti-Cartel Enforcement Template designed to highlight important features of its own anti-cartel system for sharing on the ICN website. The Commission's contribution can be downloaded here.

OECD/Korea Policy Centre Competition Programme

The OECD/Korea Policy Centre Competition Programme is a joint venture between the Korean government and the OECD. Opened in May 2004, the Centre works with competition authorities in the Asia-Pacific region to develop and implement effective competition law and policy. The Commission is an active participant of The OECD/Korea Policy Centre Competition Programme.

Other Competition Authorities

In this section, selected competition authorities are featured in an in-depth article detailing its functions, organisation structure and enforcement activities, as well as a quick Q&A introducing their major competition rules and enforcement policies. As of today we have worked with fellow enforcers from the jurisdictions below.