ACA, as a beneficiary of an IPA II Twinning project entitled “Further Strengthening the Competition Authority’, aims to strengthen institutional capacities. The project is expected to start implementing during 2018.
ACA is a beneficiary of a technical project with EBRD “Technical Assistance to the Competition Authority – Capacity Building, Support for Legislation and Advocacy”, through supporting a specialized expertise to enable the law to be revised, in terms of concrete proposals, for additions and changes to it, organizing different trainings,
ACA cooperates with the OECD-GVH / RCC through participation in ongoing seminars that this center provides for Central, Eastern and South-Eastern European countries. On June 19-21 2018, the OECD-GVH / RCC in cooperation with ACA organized a workshop on “Merger Control”, attended by representatives from 27 homologous competition authorities from
ACA cooperates with OECD by using OECD best practices on methodologies during its daily work. ACA participates in OECD’s annual activities by presenting Albanian experience in conferences, forums and seminars. Also ACA reports on the OECD Report “Competitiveness in South East Europe: A Policy Outlook” for the Competition Policy chapter.
ACA is member of the International Competition Network, which is the largest network including almost all competition authorities in Europe and worldwide, since 2004. ACA during 2017 has taken a more active role at ICN, becoming part of different working groups, respectively: – Advocacy Working Group: It is an important
Press Release – The 17th Meeting of IGE on Competition Law and Policy, UNCTAD, Geneva The United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) held the 17th meeting of the Intergovernmental Group of Experts (IGE) on Competition Law and Policy, the group established for the implementation of the multilateral agreement