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Whilst the arguments can be considered in the
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with in a mutually exclusive manner that will not
jeopardize the crucial competition mandate at CTC.
The beer industry example discussed above
should be considered as a wakeup call for the CTC
and the Ministry to re consider the merger, so that
moving forward; there is no policy objective incoherence
at the CTC.
The Zimbabwean case is peculiar in so far as statutory
coexistence with Tariffs is concerned. There is
no any other jurisdiction known for having such
a practice. However other jurisdictions also have
other functions, within the tripartite, Zambia has
consumer protection function which is widely
practiced elsewhere in the world including the
United States and Australia. The United Republic
of Tanzania has consumer protection and Anti
counterfeits which is provided for by a different
law and is placed at FCC by a Ministerial Order
through a government notice.
The experience of all these coexistences has not
ed
practice is having a stand alone competition
authority, for which Zimbabwe is close from its
attainment since the common partner consumer
protection is poised to have its own separate institution.
7.0 INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS
AND REGIONAL
COOPERATION
The CTC has cooperated with a number of other
competition organizations at bilateral and multi-
ciary
and provider. The Commission has received
technical assistance in the form of capacity building
and training from other competition authorities
such as the Anti-Trust Division of the United States
Department of Justice, the United States Federal
Trade Commission, the the United Kingdom Of-
and Consumer Commission, and the Competition
Commission South Africa. It has also given technical
assistance to other competition authorities in
the region, notably to the Competition and Fair
Trading Commission of Malawi, and the Namibian
Competition Commission.
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The Commission has also cooperated with other
competition authorities in the region, notably authorities
in Kenya, Namibia, South Africa and Zambia,
in exchange of information. The cooperation
with the Zambian competition authority has extended
to the handling and investigation of competition
cases.
International organizations that have given the
Commission capacity building and technical as-
have included the Commonwealth Secretariat, the
Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development
(OECD) and the United Nations Conference
for Trade and Development (UNCTAD).
The Commonwealth Secretariat assisted in the operationalization
of the Commission by providing
a technical advisor for a period of one and a half
workshop on competition policy and law. Cooperation
with UNCTAD has been the most profound. It
has not only involved capacity building and technical
assistance, but has also involved participation
at events such as the Intergovernmental Group of
Experts on Competition Law and Policy (IGE), at
which the Commission is a frequent contributor.
Technical assistance given to the Commission by
UNCTAD has included the following:
regional seminars on competition law and policy,
held in Lusaka, Zambia (1999), Livingstone,
Zambia (2000, 2002 and 2004), Mombasa, Kenya
(2001), Blantyre, Malawi (2004), Siavonga, Zambia
(2008), and Dar-es-Salaam, United Republic of
Tanzania (2010);
national workshop on competition law and policy,
held in Kariba, Zimbabwe (2002); and
establishment of the Commission’s website (2001).
The Commission is a member of the International
Competition Network (ICN), that seeks to facilitate
global cooperation between competition authorities,
and actively participates in the Network’s programmes.
At continental and regional level, CTC is a member
of both the African Competition Forum (ACF)
and the Southern and Eastern Africa Competition
Forum (SEACF). The Commission provided one of
the regional competition experts that formulated
and drafted the Common Market for Eastern and
Southern Africa (COMESA) regional competition
policy and law, and sits on the Board of Commis-
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