2012 Content
Introducing the Antitrust and Competition Law Compliance Forum
November 12 - The Antitrust and Competition Law Compliance Forum announces its new web site, at http://www.compliance-network.com As noted on the site, this Forum is a discussion group focused on antitrust and competition law compliance programs.
“We are a non-profit network of individuals dedicated to the global advancement of highly effective anti-cartel compliance programs, as a means to prevent and detect cartel behavior. Our members, from various backgrounds and geographic locations, have come together to form an online resource hub for this area of study.”
Our mission includes the role of government in promoting effective anti-cartel programs. On the site we provide a broad range of resources that address how governments take steps to promote programs, and also how some governments have undercut such programs.
Ted Banks, Donna Boehme and Joe are organizers of this Forum.
Banks and Murphy call for change in approach to compliance programs to promote competition law globally
August 30 - Ted Banks and Joe recently published an article titled: “The International Law of Antitrust Compliance,” 40 Denver Journal of International Law & Policy 368 (2012), also available in “Perspectives on International Law in an Era of Change” (Nanda & Mundt, eds.). This article looks at the development of antitrust compliance programs, and calls for a change in the negative policies of the Antitrust Division of the US Department of Justice and the European Commission, which undercut the development of more effective company programs. The article concludes:
“If the governments of the world expect to treat competition law as a basic tenet of international law, governing, as it does, the conduct of local and multinational corporations, then they must also recognize the need to accord competition law compliance programs their proper role in determining enforcement priorities and penalties.”
Article: "The FTC and antitrust compliance programs"
Published in the July/August issue of Compliance and Ethics Professional; Read below