{"id":267500,"date":"2020-09-03T00:18:59","date_gmt":"2020-09-03T04:18:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=267500"},"modified":"2020-09-03T00:18:59","modified_gmt":"2020-09-03T04:18:59","slug":"competition-bureau-strengthens-relationship-with-five-foreign-counterparts-to-enhance-cross-border-enforcement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2020\/09\/03\/competition-bureau-strengthens-relationship-with-five-foreign-counterparts-to-enhance-cross-border-enforcement\/","title":{"rendered":"Competition Bureau strengthens relationship with five foreign counterparts to enhance cross-border enforcement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/competitionbureaucanada\/photos\/a.474668569326214\/3051740538285658\/?__cft__[0]=AZV6zkPzeHjG0wppK4L31DmSu_GOF5C7CQpqX3XWQR6IDWsWHIFO6fTJzCIUhffEm-1Ia43CSQhptrgJapnQeaXazwluvX9vs_w7i4hsv3btsrSlSbasqOF8qZYle1C1Lf9xiAcSUd8dq4iquqUZtazkiPm-upT5M0gaVqPfc9lggw&#038;__tn__=%2CO%2CP-R<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"row\">\n<div class=\"col-md-auto\">\n<p>Today, the Competition Bureau signed a new competition enforcement framework with the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.accc.gov.au\/\">Australian Competition and Consumer Commission<\/a>, the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/comcom.govt.nz\/\">New Zealand Commerce Commission<\/a>, the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/organisations\/competition-and-markets-authority\">United Kingdom Competition &amp; Markets Authority<\/a>, the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.justice.gov\/\">United States Department of Justice<\/a>\u00a0and the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ftc.gov\/\">United States Federal Trade Commission<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.competitionbureau.gc.ca\/eic\/site\/cb-bc.nsf\/eng\/04550.html\">Multilateral Mutual Assistance and Cooperation Framework for Competition Authorities<\/a>\u00a0(MMAC) will improve the Bureau\u2019s ability to cooperate with these five counterparts in an increasingly digital and global economy.<\/p>\n<p>The MMAC will enable its signatories to cooperate more effectively on investigations, share their experiences and work on joint projects, including inter-organizational training initiatives. The MMAC also includes a template that agencies can use to establish bilateral or multilateral cooperation instruments focused on investigative assistance, like sharing confidential information and cross-border evidence gathering.<\/p>\n<p>Building and maintaining strong partnerships improves the Bureau&#8217;s ability to deliver results for Canadians. By investing in its relationships with competition agencies and other law enforcement partners, the Bureau can strengthen its ability to protect Canada&#8217;s competitive marketplace, address cross-border anti-competitive activity, and promote convergence on competition policies internationally.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<h2>Quick facts<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>The MMAC complements the Bureau\u2019s existing\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.competitionbureau.gc.ca\/eic\/site\/cb-bc.nsf\/eng\/03763.html#tab2\">cooperation instruments in place with 16 jurisdictions<\/a>: Australia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, the European Union, Hong Kong, India, Japan, Mexico, New Zealand, the People\u2019s Republic of China, Peru, the Republic of Korea, Singapore, Taiwan and the United States.<\/li>\n<li>To enhance cross-border enforcement and promote sound competition policies internationally, the Bureau also participates in other fora, such as the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.internationalcompetitionnetwork.org\/\">International Competition Network<\/a>\u00a0and the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.oecd.org\/competition\/\">Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development\u2019s Competition Committee<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/competitionbureaucanada\/photos\/a.474668569326214\/3051740538285658\/?__cft__[0]=AZV6zkPzeHjG0wppK4L31DmSu_GOF5C7CQpqX3XWQR6IDWsWHIFO6fTJzCIUhffEm-1Ia43CSQhptrgJapnQeaXazwluvX9vs_w7i4hsv3btsrSlSbasqOF8qZYle1C1Lf9xiAcSUd8dq4iquqUZtazkiPm-upT5M0gaVqPfc9lggw&#038;__tn__=%2CO%2CP-R &nbsp; Today, the Competition Bureau signed a new competition enforcement framework with the\u00a0Australian Competition and Consumer Commission, the\u00a0New Zealand &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":267501,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-267500","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news-ca","category-news","mauthors-competition-bureau-canada","mauthors-government-of-canada"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267500","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=267500"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267500\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":267502,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267500\/revisions\/267502"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/267501"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=267500"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=267500"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=267500"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}