Registration

09:00-09:30

Opening remarks
Mr ZHONG Min, Deputy Director General, Shanghai Administration for Industry and Commerce
Mr LU Wanli, Deputy Director General, Anti-Monopoly and Anti-Unfair Competition Enforcement Bureau of State Administration for Industry and Commerce, P.R. China
Torben Toft, Principal Administrator, Directorate-General for Competition, European Commission

Moderator: Ms Hilary JENNINGS, Special Adviser on Competition Policy, EUCTP II

09:30-12:00

Session I: Platform structure and antitrust analysis
Overview:

• Key features of online environment: does online retailing raise new issues?
• Competition concerns
• Legal and economic framework: what is the appropriate focus of competition interventions?
• Insights from competition interventions

09:30 – 10:30 Presentation by Bart Noé, Competition Department, Authority for Consumers and Markets, the Netherlands
10:30 – 11:20 Commentary:

• Antonio Butta Economic Assistant to the Chairman of the Italian Competition Authority
• Professor WANG Xianlin, Shanghai Jiaotong University

11:30 – 12:00 Q&A (Georgina Lake, Assistant Project Director, UK Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) and Laure Dosogne-Varaire, Case handler, French Competition Authority to participate in Q&A)

12:00- 13:30

Lunch

13:30-16:00
(Tea break will be decided by moderator depending on progress of the discussion)

Session II: Online restraints: effects, analysis and enforcement
Overview:

• Types of online price and non-price restraints
• Using existing economic and legal frameworks to assess effects
• Developing an administrable enforcement policy

13:30 – 14:30 Presentation by Antonio Butta, Economic Assistant to the Chairman of the Italian Competition Authority
14:30 – 14:50 Commentary by Bart Noé, Competition Department, Authority for Consumers and Markets, the Netherlands
14:50– 15:00 tea break
15:00 – 16:00 Presentation:

• WANG Yanglin, Division Two, Price Supervision and Anti-Monopoly Bureau, NDRC (15 min speaking time, 15 min interpretation)
• Professor LI Jian, Shanghai Jiaotong University (SAIC) (15 min speaking time, 15 min interpretation)

16:00-17:00

Q&A (Georgina Lake, Assistant Project Director, UK Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) and Laure Dosogne-Varaire, Case handler, French Competition Authority to participate in Q&A)

17:00-17:15

Closing remarks by NDRC and Torben Toft, DG Competition

Registration

Moderator: Ms Hilary JENNINGS, Special Adviser on Competition Policy, EUCTP II

09:00-12:30

Session I: Co-ordination and information exchange
Overview:

• When is information exchange pro-competitive?
• What constitutes illicit information exchange?
• The legal and economic perspectives
• What steps have regulators taken to reduce the risk of horizontal co-ordination?

09:00 – 10:00 Presentation by Laure Dosogne-Varaire, Case handler, French Competition Authority
10:00 – 10:30 Commentary by Georgina Lake, Assistant Project Director, UK CMA; Simon Vande Walle, DG Competition, European Commission
10:30 – 10:40 tea break
10:40 – 11:20 Presentation by SU Yu, Anti-Monopoly and Anti-Unfair Competition Enforcement Bureau, SAIC
11:20 – 12:30 Q&A

12:30-14:00

Lunch

14:00-17:00

Session II: Hub and spoke agreements
Overview:

• Atypical cartels: how do hub and spoke agreements differ from cartels?
• Test for establishing hub and spoke agreement
• Should they be investigated as a by object / per se agreement?
• Do they require special consideration by competition enforcers?

14:00 – 15:00 Presentation by Georgina Lake, Assistant Project Director, UK CMA
15:00 – 15:20 tea break
15:20 – 16:00 Commentary by Director ZHAO Guobin, Anti-Monopoly and Anti-Unfair Competition Enforcement Bureau, SAIC
16:00 – 16:50 Q&A

16:50- 17:00

Closing Remarks

Registration

Moderator: Ms Hilary JENNINGS, Special Adviser on Competition Policy, EUCTP II

09:00-09:15

Opening remarks
Ms. HAN Chunlin, Deputy Director General,Anti-monopoly Bureau, Ministry of Commerce, P.R. China
Torben Toft, Principal Administrator, Directorate-General for Competition, European Commission

09:15-12:00
(Tea break will be decided by moderator depending on progress of the discussion)

Session I: Declaration of concentration of business operators
Overview:

• Measures on Notification of Concentration of undertakings

Experience with drafting and implementing procedural regulations to clarify the filing requirements: e.g. form of concentration of operators, scope of the calculation of business turnover, declaration documents, content of filing, etc.
Presentation and commentary by:

• Representative from MOFCOM
• Simon Vande Walle, DG COMP, European Commission
• Ibrahim Bah, former Head of Mergers Irish Competition and Authority

Discussion and Q&A

12:00-13:30

Lunch

13:30-16:20
(Tea break will be decided by moderator depending on progress of the discussion)

Session II: Use of procedural regulations in merger review
Overview:

• Measures on Procedures for Review of Concentrations of Undertakings

Experience with drafting and implementing procedural regulations to clarify administration of the merger review process including the role of the oral hearing in merger investigations: including timing and scope of discussions and value to agency and parties
Presentation and commentary by:

• Representative from MOFCOM
• Simon Vande Walle, DG COMP, European Commission
• Ibrahim Bah, former Head of Mergers Irish Competition and Authority

Discussion and Q&A

16:20- 17:20
(Tea break will be decided by moderator depending on progress of the discussion)

Session III: Transparency in merger investigations
Overview:

• Transparency on progress, process and substantial issues of the investigation vis-à-vis the parties concerned
• Inquiries by third parties
• Guidelines on public information disclosure

Presentation and commentary by:

• Simon Vande Walle, DG COMP, European Commission
• Ibrahim Bah, former Head of Mergers Irish Competition and Authority
• Representative from MOFCOM

Discussion and Q&A

17:20- 17:30

Closing Remarks

09:00 – 09:15

Welcome and opening remarks

09:15 – 11:50
(Tea break will be decided by moderator depending on progress of the discussion)

Roundtable discussion - Suggested topics:

• Introducing the draft IPR guideline by AMEAs
• Balance between encouraging innovation and eliminating IPR abuses: aims and objectives
• Coverage of the guideline, including: IPR-related monopoly agreements, abuse of dominance, mergers and acquisitions
• Impact of guidelines for enforcers and the business community: providing clarity and increasing certainty
• Integrating enforcement experience into guidelines

Participants and commentators:

• MOFCOM
• Ms WU Dongmei, Deputy Director, Price Supervision and Anti-Monopoly Bureau, National Development and Reform Commission, P.R. China
• Ms YANG Jie, Director, Anti-monopoly Bureau, Ministry of Commerce, P.R. China
• Mr Tobias MAASS, DG Competition, European Commission
• Mr Torben TOFT, DG Competition, European Commission
• Ms Hilary Jennings, Special Adviser on Competition Policy, EUCTP II

11:50 – 12:00

Closing remarks