Europe

 

United Kingdom

 

Office of Fair Trading (“OFT”) consults on competition compliance guidance: the UK OFT is consulting on two guidance documents that aim to help businesses and company directors comply with competition law. One of the documents has been developed for businesses and their advisers and the other is specifically for executive and non-executive directors. The guidance for businesses and their advisers includes a separate quick guide intended to meet the specific needs of small to medium sized enterprises. “How Your Business Can Achieve Compliance” sets out the OFT's recommended risk-based, four-step process for creating a culture of compliance within a business. The guidance sets out in more detail the practical compliance measures that businesses might be able to take. In parallel, the OFT is consulting on its draft guidance, "Company Directors and Competition Law". This is intended to explain the level of understanding of competition law that company directors are expected to have and steps they should be taking to detect and prevent breaches of the law. The draft guidance for company directors follows the recent publication of the OFT's revised guidance on Director Disqualification Orders in competition law cases, which sets out how it intends to use the sanction to deter anti-competitive activity.

http://www.oft.gov.uk/news-and-updates/press/2010/109-10

Drivers of Compliance and Non-Compliance with Competition Law

 

 

 

• The deterrent effect of competition enforcement by the OFT, November 2007 (PDF)

• An assessment of discretionary penalties regimes (final report), October 2009 (PDF)

 

 

 

Switzerland

• Motion Schweiger (PDF)

 

 

 

 

Worldwide

 

Australia

• Australian Competition & Consumer Commission: Trade practices compliance program template

 

 

 

Canada

• Competition Bureau/Corporate Compliance Programs (PDF)