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Australia: ACCC hosts East Asian competition agencies conference

By  |  August 29, 2018

Heads of competition agencies from East Asian countries, including the ASEAN countries, are meeting in Sydney today for the two-day 2018 East Asia Top Level Officials’ Meeting on Competition Policy (EATOP) and the East Asia Conference on Competition Law and Policy (EAC).

Hosted in Australia for the first time, EATOP brings together heads of competition agencies to discuss competition law developments within the region and to strengthen relationships between competition law agencies.

Attending from the ACCC will include senior staff and Commissioners, including ACCC Chair Rod Sims.

“It is a great privilege to welcome my competition law agency counterparts from across East Asia to Australia for this important meeting,” ACCC Chair Rod Sims said.

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