Towards WTO Competition Rules Key Issues and Comments on the WTO Report 1998 on Trade and Competition


The progressive elimination of formal, government-imposed trade barriers under the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) and–since 1955–the World Trade Organization (WTO) brought competition policy onto the agenda of the WTO. In November 1998, a WTO working group presented a comprehensive report on the ‘Interaction between Trade and Competition Policy’ (the Jenny Report). In July 1999, a group of internationally recognized competition law experts, together with high-ranking officials from the WTO, Geneva, the European Commission, and the German Bundeskartelamt met in a seminar at Zurich University with the aim of commenting on the Jenny Report, of identifying key issues for international competition rules and of presenting proposa

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