August 18/2004
Japan Fair Trade Commission
1 Outline
(1) Period: 23 August - 23 September 2004
(2) Participants
15 persons from Brazil, China, India,Indonesia, Kazakhstan, Malaysia, Peru, Philippines(3), Serbia and Montenegro, Tajikistan, Turkey, Ukraine and Viet Nam
(3) Organizers
Fair Trade Commission of Japan (JFTC),
Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA)
(4) Place
JICA Osaka International Center, Osaka
JFTC, Tokyo
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.
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.
