1 / 11

UNCTAD's Role in Competition, IP, and Digital Economy Challenges

Explore UNCTAD's work on competition law, intellectual property, and digital economy challenges, including international cooperation, policy goals, and reports on competition and IP issues. Learn about the organization's mandate, emerging business models, and the importance of joint international efforts in facing global challenges.

ahassell
Download Presentation

UNCTAD's Role in Competition, IP, and Digital Economy Challenges

An Image/Link below is provided (as is) to download presentation Download Policy: Content on the Website is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use and may not be sold / licensed / shared on other websites without getting consent from its author. Content is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use only. Download presentation by click this link. While downloading, if for some reason you are not able to download a presentation, the publisher may have deleted the file from their server. During download, if you can't get a presentation, the file might be deleted by the publisher.

E N D

Presentation Transcript

  1. COMPETITION POLICY AND IP Teresa Moreira Head of Competition and Consumer Policies Branch teresa.moreira@unctad.org

  2. UNCTAD mandate - Competition law and policy 2016 - 70 years of work on Competition law and policy within the UN. The UN Set of Principles on Competition (1980): • Rules for the control of anticompetitive practices, • The development dimension of competition law and policy, • Framework for international cooperation and exchange of best practices

  3. Competition Law and Policy goals

  4. Intellectual Property

  5. Competition and Intellectual Property

  6. Competition policy and Intellectual Property

  7. UNCTAD’s work on Competition policy and IP Several background reports on this issue: - A preliminary report on how competition policy addresses the exercise of intellectual property rights (March 1999, doc. TD/B/COM.2/CLP/10) - Competition policy and the exercise of intellectual property rights (August 2000, doc. TD/RBP/CONF.5/6) - Competition policy and the exercise of intellectual property rights, revised report (May 2001, doc. TD/B/COM.2/CLP/22) - Competition policy and the exercise of intellectual property rights (May 2008, doc. TD/B/COM.2/CLP/68) - Examining the interface between the objectives of competition policy and intellectual property (August 2016, doc. TD/B/C.I/CLP/36)

  8. UNCTAD’soverall mandate - international cooperation

  9. Digital Economy Challenges • Emerging and disruptive business models - increased innovation • Internet platforms and social media rising roles • Appropriateness of existing legislation and regulatory frameworks? • Competition authorities need to keep up with the technological evolution – different market assessment, market studies, new investigative tools and set of enforcement measures

  10. International Cooperation and UNCTAD’srole • Global challenges entailed by trade liberalization, the rapid development of ICTs, the rise of the digital economy and the emergence of new key players in the markets - platforms and the social networks. • The need and opportunity of joint work at the international level to identify the most important issues and to assist developing countries improving their capacities to face these challenges. • UNCTAD’s new mandate on Consumer protection law and policy - allowing for a improved interaction with Competition policy.

More Related