ASEAN Member States (AMSs) have, in the ASEAN Economic Community (AEC) Blueprint, committed to endeavor to introduce nation-wide competition policy and law (CPL) by 2015. At present, only Indonesia, Singapore, Thailand and Viet Nam have economy-wide competition laws and competition authorities. Malaysia has adopted a competition law which is expected to be in force in January 2012. Other AMSs have relied on sector-level policies and regulations to achieve competition policy objectives.

To achieve those objectives, ASEAN will hold The ASEAN Competition Conference (ACC) in Bali, Indonesia. One of the main objective of the ACCs is to achieve regional acceptance on the importance of competition policy from various stakeholders, e.g., government officials, members of parliament, businesses, politicians, academics, etc.

For further information, check the link General Information below to know how far the conference will take hold.

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