a tripartite report - Unctad
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162 VOLUNTARY PEER REVIEW OF CLP: A TRIPARTITE REPORT ON THE UNITED REPUBLIC OF TANZANIA – ZAMBIA – ZIMBABWE<br />
UNCTAD provides capacity-building and technical<br />
assistance on competition law and policy in developing<br />
and least developed countries, as well as<br />
countries in transition in accordance with requests<br />
received, the needs of the countries concerned<br />
and resources available. This includes both national<br />
and regional assistance in drafting competition<br />
laws and policy guidelines as well as capacity-building<br />
in the implementation of competition<br />
policy with a long-term perspective in line with the<br />
Table 11: Technical Assistance Given Under UNCTAD Programme<br />
Year Technical Assistance<br />
1999<br />
2002<br />
United Nations Set of Multilaterally Agreed Equitable<br />
Principles and Rules for the Control of Restrictive<br />
Business Practices and the requests made by<br />
the Fourth United Nations Conference to Review<br />
All Aspects of the Set. 175<br />
The technical assistance that the Zambian competition<br />
authority has received under the UNCTAD<br />
programme over the years is tabulated in Table 11<br />
below<br />
UNCTAD/COMESA Regional Seminar on Competition Law and Policy held in Lusaka during the period 2 to 4 June 1999. Other participant<br />
countries were Kenya, Malawi, Swaziland, Comoros, DR Congo, Djibouti, Egypt, Eritrea, Sudan, Uganda, and Zimbabwe<br />
UNCTAD Regional Seminar on Competition Law and Policy held in Livingstone during the period 1 to 3 December 2002.<br />
The seminar attracted participants from both the SADC and COMESA regional trading blocs.<br />
2004 UNCTAD Investigative Techniques Course and Adjudicators Seminar held in Livingstone during the period 5 to 13 October 2004.<br />
2008<br />
UNCTAD Regional Competition Seminar held in Siavonga during the period 26 to 29 May 2008. The other participant countries were<br />
Botswana, Swaziland, Malawi, Mozambique, Kenya, the United Republic of Tanzania and Zimbabwe.<br />
2010 Awareness Seminar on Competition Law and Policy conducted in Lusaka during the period 13 to 14 May 2010.<br />
2010 Sectoral study of the petroleum sector in Zambia.<br />
2010 UNCTAD Regional Course on Investigation in Dar-es-Salaam, Tannzania, during the period 29 November to 2 December 2010.<br />
Source: ZCC Annual Reports<br />
The European Development Fund (EDF)’s technical<br />
assistance to the Commission under the 9th EDF,<br />
which was aimed at enhancing capacity building,<br />
has been extensive, and has covered the following<br />
activities since 2005: (i) capacity building of staff<br />
through training (including courses at Kings College<br />
in the United Kingdom on European Commission<br />
competition law); (ii) creation of effective<br />
regulatory framework through empowerment of<br />
consumers and traders; (iii) national workshop<br />
for local consumer advisers; (iv) public awareness<br />
programmes through private and public media; (v)<br />
hosting of public hearings on the repealing of the<br />
Competition and Fair Trading Act and replacing it<br />
with the Competition and Consumer Protection<br />
Act; (vi) hosting of an investigations workshop on<br />
cartel enforcement and prosecution; (vii) hosting<br />
of consumer protection and awareness workshops,<br />
and undertaking of consumer sensitization cam-<br />
paigns; (viii) publication of competition literature on<br />
ment,<br />
such as computers, printers, scanners, a photocopying<br />
machine, and a motor vehicle; and (x)<br />
study tour for new members of the Board of Commissioners<br />
to South Africa and Washington D.C.<br />
<br />
Bank Public Sector Capacity Building Project (PSCAP)<br />
in the form of human resource development, advocacy<br />
and public awareness, and procurement of<br />
-<br />
<br />
and policy that was held in Livingstone in November<br />
2002 was funded under the Project.<br />
The Commission has received two research grants<br />
from the International Development Research<br />
Centre (IDRC), which are designed to enhance ca-