From the 30 March to 1 of April 2016, the Centre held a workshop in Hanoi, Vietnam dedicated to building capacity for cartel enforcement. This was an event co-hosted with the Vietnam Competition Authority (VCA) and co-sponsored by CLIP.
The event opened with introductory speeches by Director
General Dae-Won Hong of the Korea Policy Centre, Mr. Tran Anh
Son (Deputy Director General of the VCA) and Mr. Frédéric Jenny
(Chairman of the OECD Competition Committee and keynote
speaker). Mr. Ruben Maximiano of the OECD then provided a
road map of the three day workshop introducing the topic at a
general level and putting it into the context of the toolbox at the
disposal of competition agencies.
Also there was a hypothetical case where the large
assembly was divided into smaller groups of between 8 and 10
persons to discuss and try and solve a bid rigging case involving
the possible operation of a cartel across regions. This lead to
a lively participation by all the groups, and each was given the
opportunity to share with the plenary an aspect of the case.
The last two sessions of the day before the cultural tour of the
beautiful Hanoi were the case study brought by Ms. JingJin
of the NDRC (China) on a very recent bid rigging case in the
shipping sector. Finally, the meeting chair Mr. Ruben Maximiano
of the OECD closed the day’s session by sharing the work that
the OECD has done on the international cooperation in the
context of cartel cases and investigations.
The next sessions were
case studies offered by a number of participants: Ms. Rosanna
Sarita an instructor at the KPPU who shared a case on the use of
indirect evidence in the fuel surcharge markets, by Ms. Quianting
Chen an officer at SAIC on a case of co-insurance, Ms. Serene
Seet (Assistant Director at the CCS) with a close look at the Ball
Bearing cartel, Ms. Sophia Khan of the Competition Commission
of Pakistan and Mr. Jay Kishor Mishra Additional Director General
of the Competition Commission of India presenting a number of
recent cartel cases.
