building programmes: UNCTAD hasachievedthefollowing resultsincountriesinvolveditstechnicalassistance and capacity- RESULTSIMPACTS AND ATGLANCE A implementing competitionandconsumerprotectionlegislation. UNCTAD providessupporttorelevantinstitutionsandstakeholdersbuildinstitutionalhumancapacityin a cultureofcompetitionandconsumerprotectionraiseawareness amongconsumersandbusinesses. developed inclosecooperationwiththebeneficiariesandemploys amulti-stakeholderapproachtofoster UNCTAD technical assistance and capacity-building in the fields of competition and consumer protection is countries andwitheconomiesintransitionthroughthefollowing: UNCTAD contributestothestrengtheningofcompetitionand consumer protectionregimesindeveloping PROGRAMME WORK? DOES THE HOW Union). Economic andMonetary Community,Monetary Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa, Eurasian EconomicUnion, West African (for example, the Association ofSoutheast Asian Nations, CaribbeanCommunity, Central African Economicand world, asdidseveralregionaleconomicorganizationswithdevelopedanddevelopingcountriesmembers frameworks, including several developing countries and countries with economies in transition across the alignment withinternationalbestpractices. Until2018, almost140 memberStatesadoptedcompetition competition andconsumerprotectionpolicieslegislation, aswellregionalframeworks, toensure UNCTAD assistsdevelopingcountriesandwitheconomies intransitionadoptingorrevising of consumerprotectionlegislationbydevelopingcountriesandwitheconomiesintransition. adopted in 1985 and revised in 1999 and 2015, which have strongly influenced the drafting and the modernization competition law and policy. UNCTAD is also the guardian of the United Nations guidelines for consumerprotection, for internationalcooperationandexchangeofbestpractices, whilerecognizingthedevelopmentdimensionof competition policythatprovidesrecommendationsforthecontrolofanticompetitivepracticesandaframework the ControlofRestrictiveBusinessPractices, adoptedin1980, theonlyinternationallyagreedinstrumenton since the1980s. UNCTAD isthecustodianofSetMultilaterally Agreed EquitablePrinciplesandRulesfor UNCTAD hasexpertiseincompetition andconsumerprotectionpolicieshasbeenworkingintheseareas in contextofthedigitaleconomy. need tohavetheirrightsprotectedandeasyaccesseffectivedisputeresolutionredress, especially ensuring consumerswiderchoice, lowerpricesandgood-qualityproducts. Onthedemandside, consumers business environmentandprovideopportunitiesforstart-upssmallmedium-sizedenterprises, while global economy, with highly concentrated markets, competition policy is even more relevant to create an enabling important instrumentsforachievingeconomicgrowthandinclusivesustainabledevelopment. Inthecurrent totradeandindustrialpoliciesare Competition andconsumerprotectionpoliciesarecomplementary GLOBAL CONTEXT IMPROVING MARKETEFFICIENCY AND CONSUMER WELFARE PROTECTION POLICIES AND FRAMEWORKS CONSUMER COMPETITION AND

Enhanced competition andconsumerprotectionculture throughadvocacyandawareness-raising seminars. developing countries. and thejudiciary. Government andofficialsofsectoralregulators, representativesofbusinessandconsumerorganizations harmonized withregionalframeworks. Improved institutional structureandorganization tostrengtheneffectiveandefficient lawenforcement. Strengthened humancapacities incompetitionandconsumerprotectionlawenforcement. Improved competitionandconsumer protectionlegislationtoaddresscurrentchallenges. Establishing linksbetweenagenciesthroughstudyvisitsfrom expertsfrombothdevelopedand Developing curriculumsforuniversities, todelivercoursesoncompetitionandconsumerprotection. Building humancapacitiesthroughtrainingprogrammesaimedatcompetitionandconsumerauthorities, Setting upinstitutionalframeworksforeffectivelawenforcementandefficientfunctioning. Drafting competitionandconsumerprotectionlegislationadaptedtoaddressingcurrentchallenges Developing andimprovingpolicy, legislativeandinstitutionalframeworks.

Fostering economic efficiency, improving governance Fostering economic efficiency, improving governance Competition andconsumerprotectionpoliciesframeworks(upto2019) Protection Lawand Policy, heldsince2016. the Intergovernmental GroupofExpertsonConsumer on CompetitionLawandPolicy, heldsince1998, and meetings oftheIntergovernmental GroupofExperts agencies isfurtherreinforced throughannual member States. The UNCTAD networkwith these competition andconsumerprotection agenciesin cooperation and working relationships with programmes, UNCTAD hasdevelopedgood its technicalassistanceandcapacity-building As aresultoftheeffectiveimplementation for sustainableconsumerproducts. against foodlossandtheChilean “My GreenCode” initiatives suchasthe Argentinian onlinecourses servants, leadingtonewsustainable consumption American countrieswasdeliveredto1,500civil education andbusinessguidancefor17Latin and advertising. The UNCTAD courseonconsumer covering criticalissueswithrespecttolabelling effective consumerinformationandeducation, provides concreteexamplesofhowtoimplement The UNCTAD 2018. also approvedbythecountry’s ParliamentinJune the DemocraticRepublicofCongo, whichwas development ofadraftregulationoncompetitionfor During thesameperiod, UNCTAD workedonthe consumer protectionrulesinaharmonizedway. that obligesmemberStatestoadoptinternal regulation inthefieldofcompetitionandadirective March 2019, theCouncilofMinistersCentral Community adoptedanew African EconomicandMonetary framework forconsumerprotectionfromJuly2017to2019. successful,The work provedvery giventhatin In Central Africa, UNCTAD workedonthereformofcompetitionregulationandcreationalegislative March 2017, andthelawwasfinallyadoptedon30October2019. the country. UNCTAD begantheworkofraisingawarenessandpreparingmergercontrolbillforPeruin control formorethan20yearsandithadencounteredfirmoppositionfromanimportanteconomicsectorof role intherecentadoptionofmergercontrollawbyGovernmentPeru. Peruhaddiscussedthemerger implement competitionandconsumerprotectionlawpolicy. Forexample, UNCTAD hasplayedanimportant UNCTAD hasarecordofaccomplishmentsinassistingdevelopingcountriesbuildingcapacitiestoadoptand Manual on Consumer Protection Manual onConsumerProtection United Nations funds United Nations Office forProjectServices, United Nations One of Southeast Asian Nations, EuropeanUnion, Luxembourg, Sweden, Switzerland, Association DONORS/FUNDING SOURCE (2014 Directly: 8, 9, 10, 12, 17 Sustainable DevelopmentGoalsaddressed: Website: unctad.org/competition Persons trained: 632 (2018) (Eurasian EconomicCommission) 44 countriesand1regionalcommission assisted:Countries orregionalorganizations Ethiopia, UnitedRepublicof Tanzania, Zimbabwe projects–Belarus,National Bhutan, Cabo Verde, Community, EurasianEconomicCommunity; Central African EconomicandMonetary Latin America, MiddleEastandNorth Africa, Activities (2017–2019): Regionalprogrammes – Start date: 2003 Scope: allregions PROGRAMME FACTS ANDFIGURES

– 2019)