August 20/2003
Japan Fair Trade Commission
1 Outline
(1) Period: 25 August - 28 September 2003
(2) Participants:
13 persons from Bangladesh, Brazil, Indonesia, Kazakhstan, Malaysia, Panama, Palestine,Philippines, Thailand, Uzbekistan and Viet Nam
(3) Organizers: The JFTC, Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA)
(4) Place: JICA Osaka International Center, Osaka
2 Backgrounds
There are moves toward strengthening or introducing competition laws among developing countries and transitional countries. They have a keen interest in the competition laws and its implementation in Japan and desire to learn from our experiences.
In response to their needs, the JFTC has been granting a technical training course to the staff of foreign competition authorities since FY 1994 cooperating with JICA's training scheme.
3 Purpose and Effect of the Training Course
We hope that the Training Course will be a chance of getting knowledge of the Antimonopoly Act and its implementation and be useful for effective implementation and development of the competition laws of each country.
*Every announcement is tentative translation. Please refer to the original text written in Japanese.
