Enforcing the Competition Law in Namibia A Toolkit - cuts ccier

y the Korean Fair Trade Commission (KFTC) in 2003 found that the benefit(consumer welfare increases and income transfers) outweighed the costs(KFTC’s budget) of competition law enforcement in 2000 and 2001 by 34times 2 .A study carried out on the Australian economy estimated the expected benefitsfrom a package of competition-promoting and deregulatory reforms (includingimprovements in the competition rules) would create annual gains in realgross domestic product (GDP) of about 5.5 percent, or AU$23bn (US$20bn),of which consumers would gain by almost AU$9bn (US$7.96bn) – in additionto increases in real wages, employment and government revenue 3 .In terms of acknowledgement, we must thank the DFID and NORAD, whohave supported this publication, and Rahabeam Shilimela, Dr S Chakravarthy,Pradeep S Mehta, John Preston, David Ong’olo and Alice Pham to havecommented extensively on the draft and helped us to develop this toolkit.Finally, in conclusion, let us reiterate that a competition regime and itsimplementation is dynamic. Hence, this toolkit should be considered as such,rather than a final word. Readers are invited to share their views atc-cier@cuts.org.Pradeep S MehtaSecretary General1 See Caceres, A (2000), “Indecopi’s first seven years” in Beatriz Boza, ed., The Role ofthe State in Competition and IP Policy in Latin America: towards an academic audit ofIndecopi, Lima.2 Chapter on Korea by Joseph Seon Hur in Competition Regimes in the World — A CivilSociety Report, Pradeep S Mehta (Ed), CUTS and INCSOC, 20063 http://www.unctad.org/en/docs//c2em_d10.en.pdfEnforcing the Competition Law in Namibia: A Toolkitiii