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The 15th East Asia Top Level Officials' Meeting on Competition Policy and the 12th East Asia Conference on Competition Law and Policy

The 15th East Asia Top Level Officials' Meeting on Competition Policy and the 12th East Asia Conference on Competition Law and Policy

July 8, 2019
Japan Fair Trade Commission

The Japan Fair Trade Commission (JFTC), together with the Authority for Fair Competition and Consumer Protection (AFCCP), and the Asian Development Bank Institute (ADBI), will co-host the 15th East Asia Top Level Officials’ Meeting on Competition Policy and the 12th East Asia Conference on Competition Law and Policy in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia.
The East Asia Top Level Officials’ Meeting on Competition Policy has been held aiming at strengthening the cooperative relationship among competitionauthorities through candid exchange of views and information with attendance of
the top-level officials from those authorities. Seventeen authorities in the region in total will participate in the Meeting this year.
The East Asia Conference on Competition Law and Policy is a conference open to public for the main purpose of developing common understanding on importance of competition law and policy in the East Asia region through presentation and discussion among participants, in addition to authorities above, from academia, business, etc.

1. Date:
(1)The 15th East Asia Top Level Officials’ Meeting on Competition Policy
   Tuesday, July 9, 2019
(2)The 12th East Asia Conference on Competition Law and Policy
   Wednesday, July 10, 2019
2. Location:
   Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia.
3. Agenda:
  (1) The 15th East Asia Top Level Officials’ Meeting on Competition Policy
      (a) Recent Developments and Trends in National Competition Law and Policy
      (b) Actual Cases and Challenges of Cross-border Enforcement and Cooperation
      (c) Role, impact, and importance of Competition Policy in Developing Countries
      (d) Experience, Evaluation, and Coordination of Technical Assistance and Related International Activities

(2) The 12th East Asia Conference on Competition Law and Policy
     (a) Coherence of competition policy with other sector policies
     (b) The experience of protecting small-medium entities from unfair business practices through competition policy

East Asia Top Level Officials’ Meetings and East Asia Conferences in the past

Time Location Meeting Conference
March 2004 Malaysia (Kuala Lumpur) - 1st Conference
May 2005 Indonesia (Bogor) 1st Meeting 2nd Conference
June 2006 Thailand (Bangkok) 2nd Meeting 3rd Conference
May 2007 Vietnam (Hanoi) 3rd Meeting 4th Conference
April 2008 Japan (Kyoto) 4th Meeting -
June 2009 Mongolia (Ulaanbaatar) 5th Meeting 5th Conference
September 2010 Korea (Seoul) 6th Meeting -
September 2011 Singapore (Singapore) 7th Meeting 6th Conference
May 2012 Malaysia (Kuala Lumpur) 8th Meeting 7th Conference
August 2013 PhilippinesManila 9th Meeting 8th Conference
October 2014 Japan (Tokyo)  10th Meeting -
August 2015 Vietnam (Ho Chi Minh) 11th Meeting 9th Conference
September 2016 Korea (Seoul) 12th Meeting -
September 2017 Indonesia (Bali) 13th Meeting 10th Conference
August 2018 Australia(Sydney) 14th Meeting 11th Conference


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

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