The JFTC Holds the Training Course on Strengthening the Capacity in Enforcing the Competition Law under the Japan-ASEAN Integration Fund Program

January 10, 2017
Japan Fair Trade Commission

The Japan Fair Trade Commission (JFTC), in cooperation with the ASEAN Expert Group and Commission for the Supervisory of Business Competition (Indonesia), will hold the training course in Tokyo under the Japan-ASEAN Integration Fund (JAIF*) for ASEAN Member States (AMS) on handling the cross border cases of violation of competition law aiming to strengthen the capacity in enforcing their competition law**.

In addition, this training course will be carried out in cooperation with United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) and JFTC will invite Dr. Guillermo Valles Galmés, Director, Division on International Trade in Goods and Services, and Commodities and other official as lecturers.

*JAIF: The fund, based on donation from Japanese government, established in ASEAN Secretariat for supporting ASEAN in 2006.
**This training course is the first activity of JAIF project started on last September.
http://www.jftc.go.jp/en/pressreleases/yearly-2016/September/160930.html

1. Period: January 11 to January 13, 2017
2. Venue: JFTC headquarters (Tokyo)
3. Organizers: JFTC
4. Proponent: Commission for the Supervisory of Business Competition (Indonesia)
5. Participants: 23 officials from competition authorities in AMS, etc.
6. Contents: - Lectures and group discussions on the practice of investigation on the cross border cases of violation of competition law
- Construction of the framework on cooperation among the competition authorities

*Every announcement is tentative translation. Please refer to the original text written in Japanese.