Internationally, the competition policy division is responsible for relations with the European Commission on competition matters.
Effective competition policy, however, sets rules, and then lets the market get on with it.
Members are yet to agree on trade in services, competition policy and public procurement.
In effect, part of domestic competition policy has been subsumed into world trade rules.
At present, however, none of the plethora of multilateral institutions has competition policy within its remit.
There are as yet no coherent rules to deal with either foreign direct investment or competition policy.
In addition to services and agriculture, there are manufacturing tariffs, the treatment of foreign investors and competition policy.
Competition policy was already on the trade agenda in 1948, when the multilateral trading system was set up.
They are repositories of antitrust knowledge who use their unique positions to modernize competition policy in responsible ways.
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Early postwar Britain was notable for cartelisation, nationalisation, weak competition policy, and protectionism.
The EU wants rules on investment, competition policy, government purchases and customs clearance.
The European Commission's regulators have customarily taken a far more activist approach to competition policy than their American counterparts.
Unfortunately, it will take longer to put this right than it will to change competition policy and planning regulations.
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The European Union wants the World Trade Organisation to look at competition policy.
It oversees, among other things, external trade policy, the policing of internal free trade, competition policy and much environmental policy.
The Germans and French object, for instance, to recent decisions by the commission to enforce competition policy and block subsidies.
Now 25 years old, it plays a major role in protecting the economic welfare of consumers and in enforcing UK competition policy.
These, unlike investment rules and competition policy, are of intense interest to a public worried about dolphins, rain forests, and maltreated workers.
The OFT, run by director general John Bridgeman, is a non-ministerial, independent government department which is divided into competition policy and consumer affairs.
Some even contemplate a treaty to include procedures for settling disputes in effect, extending Europe's single market to embrace America, including common competition policy.
Different countries will preside over the nine negotiating groups (covering matters such as investment, services, competition policy and subsidies, as well as market access).
Undeniably, concerns about competition policy increasingly cross borders (see article).
U. that German aid would not be contingent on Opel keeping a certain number of jobs in Germany, lest Germany run afoul of European competition policy.
Mr Howard also signalled there would be further weakening of workers rights, a review of competition policy and liberalisation of media ownership, but offered scant details.
It would be better to deal with competition policy multilaterally.
In a statement, Antoine Colombani, the Commission spokesman on competition policy, said it had completed its preliminary assessment a few weeks ago and had told Google of its concerns.
Banks do not have many qualified loan officers, lawyers have little experience of commercial disputes, and the National Assembly is having to grapple with the wholly unfamiliar notion of competition policy.
It would be best to broaden the new round to areas such as industrial tariffs, investment and competition policy, to allow more scope for the trade-offs on which a final deal depends.
And they may pioneer new ideas which can later be taken up multilaterally: the Australia-New Zealand free-trade agreement, for example, deals with competition policy, which the World Trade Organisation has not yet touched.
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