CPI ICN Column edited by Maria Coppola (U.S. Federal Trade Commission)
Competition and Industrial Policy Considerations – the ICN Steering Group’s Town Hall Conference Series – By Andreas Mundt (Bundeskartellamt)1
On 8 March 2016 the ICN Steering Group (SG) continued the second of its Town Hall series calls dealing with the interaction of competition policy and other government policies. In this teleconference the speakers addressed competition and industrial policy considerations.
Henk Don, Member of the Board of the Netherlands Authority for Consumers and Markets, Francis Kariuki, Director General of the Competition Authority of Kenya, and Randolph Tritell, Director of the US FTC’s Office of International Affairs, discussed practical experiences and cases, offering valuable insights. This call built on the first town hall teleconference on public interest considerations in merger cases. (See CPI article here.)
Germany – Competition as a market organising principle, but…
The approach followed in Germany basically is to let market forces work freely and minimize state intervention. Competition is considered a market organising principle and the Bundeskartellamt’s role is to protect competition. However, there are examples of state intervention, for instance the promotion of renewable energy, which had a significant impact on competition in the market for electricity production.
The Netherlands – A problem-solving approach
Henk Don pointed out that, ge
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