0800-0830 hrs

Registration and badge collection

0830-0920 hrs

Opening Session

• Pradeep S. Mehta, Secretary General, CUTS International  – Welcome Speech
• Frederic Jenny, Judge, Supreme Court, France
• Hans Peter Egler, Head, Trade and Clean Technology Cooperation, SECO, Switzerland
• Roger Nellist, Team Leader, Investment Climate and Business Development, DFID, UK
• Le Danh Vinh, Vice Minister of Trade of Vietnam in charge of competition issues – Inaugural Speech

0920-1030 hrs

Session One

Competition Scenario in Vietnam, Lao PDR and Cambodia

• Vietnam: Hoang Van Thanh, Central Institute for Economic Management (CIEM) – Vietnam (20mins)
• Cambodia: Nuth Monyrath, Economic Institute of Cambodia (EIC) (20mins)

Chair

Patrick Krauskopf, Vice Director, COMCO, Switzerland

Floor discussion (30mins)

1030-1045 hrs

TEA/COFFEE BREAK

1045-1230 hrs

Session Two

Competition Scenario in Bangladesh and Nepal

• Lao PDR: Leeber Leebouapao, National Economic Research Institute (NERI) – Lao PDR (20mins)
• Bangladesh: Iftekar Ahmed, Bangladesh Enterprise Institute (BEI) (20mins)
• Nepal: Neelu Thapa, South Asia Watch on Trade, Economics & Environment (SAWTEE) (20mins)

Chair

Dr. S. Chakravarthy, Senior Consultant on Competition Policy and Law, CUTS C-CIER Fellow

Floor discussion (45mins)

1230-1330 hrs

LUNCH

1330-1445 hrs

Session Three

Panel Discussion on the Project Synthesis Report

Presentation - Nitya Nanda, Policy Analyst, CUTS  (20mins)

Panellists (7Up2 Project Advisory Committee members):

-          John Preston, DFID, UK (5mins)

-          Le Dang Doanh, Advisor to the MPI, Vietnam (5mins)

-          Patrick Krauskopf, COMCO, Switzerland (5mins)

-          Kwame Owino, IEA, Kenya (5mins)

-          Malathy Knight John, IPS, Sri Lanka (5mins)

Moderator

Deunden Nikomborirak, TDRI, Thailand

Floor discussion (30mins)

1435-1445 hrs

Seminar Wrap-up

1445-1500 hrs

TEA/COFFEE BREAK

END OF SEMINAR è PROJECT REVIEW WORKSHOP AND PLAN OF ACTIONS FOR PHASE II

1500-1615hrs

Session One

Review of Phase I

- Achievements and shortcomings

- Lessons learnt and measures to overcome shortcomings

1615-1715 hrs

Session Two

Group Discussion on Country Plans of Actions for Phase II

Participants to be divided into 02 discussion groups

1715-1755 hrs

Presentations of Group Discussion Results

Time slot for each presentation is 20mins (max)

1800-1830 hrs

Closing session

Workshop Wrap-up

TRAINING WORKSHOP ON COMPETITION & REGULATION

0830-0930 hrs

Opening Session

• Pradeep S. Mehta, Secretary General, CUTS International  – Overview of the seminar and Introduction of CUTS’s work in the area of competition & regulation 
• Frederic Jenny, Judge, Supreme Court, France – Keynote speech on “The role of competition in the regulatory reform process of developing countries”
• William Kovacic, Professor, George Washington University School of Law, US – “Regional Cooperation and the Development of Competition Policy: What lies in the future for Asian developing economies?"

0930-1045 hrs

Session One

Opening the telecom sector to competition

-          Key regulatory issues in opening the telecom market to competition

Rohan Samarajiva, Executive Director, LIRNEasia and Malathy Knight-John, IPS, Sri Lanka

-          Handling competition issues in a liberalised telecom market

Dong-Pyo Hong, Advisor, Kim & Chang

Chair

Le Dang Doanh, Advisor to the MPI, Vietnam

Floor discussion (30mins)

1045-1100 hrs

TEA/COFFEE BREAK

1100-1215 hrs

Session Two

Encouraging competition in the electricity sector

-          Promoting a competitive electricity market

Shahid Hasan, TERI

-          Market power, consumer interests, regulation and competition in the electricity industry

 S. Sundar, Distinguished Fellow, TERI

Chair

Sok Hach, Director, Economic Institute of Cambodia

Floor discussion (30mins)

1215-1330 hrs

LUNCH

1330-1445 hrs

Session Three

Competition issues in the pharmaceutical and agricultural sectors

-          Regulating anti-competitive practices in the pharmaceutical sector: Whose job?

Erlinda Medalla, Senior Research Fellow, PIDS

-          Competition issues in the agricultural sector – A case study on the food chain of the Indonesian dairy sector

 Indah Sukmaningsih, Chair, YLKI

Chair

George Lipimile, Executive Director, Zambia Competition Commission

Floor discussion (30mins)

1445-1500 hrs

TEA/COFFEE BREAK

1500-1630

Panel Discussion

 Building a competition culture

-          An Integrated Perspective for Competition Policy and Law

Sitesh Bhojani, Barrister and Consultant on Competition Policy and Law

-          Competition authority as an advocate for competition

George Lipimile, Executive Director, Zambia Competition Commission

-          Competition audit of the economic policy making process

Lucian Cernat, Officer, Competition Policy Branch, UNCTAD

Chair

Hank Spier, Director, Spier Consulting

Floor discussion (30mins)

1630-1700 hrs

Closing session