As part of a collaboration with the United Kingdom’s Competition and Market Authority (CMA), the Commission held capacity-building workshops for its enforcement staff. The CMA’s experts, in two different sessions on “Generating Case Leads” and “Planning Cartel Investigations” trained the Commission’s staff on different enforcement techniques and methodologies. The CMA team comprising Mr. Alex Schofield, Principal Policy Advisor, Ms. Eva Nickel, Assistant Director, Cartels, and Gary Bracken, Assistant Director, Investigation, gave presentations in these sessions. In the first session, Ms. Eva Nickel focused on the UK’s cartel regime and leniency program, stages of a CMA leniency application in practice, and ex-officio investigations and campaigns. In INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS 5 the second session, Mr. Gary Bracken briefed the participants on planning investigations, issues in delivering effective enforcement outcomes, and effective methods of conducting inspections and interviews. The Commission acknowledged the CMA’s efforts in enhancing collaboration and building cooperation between the two agencies.
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