In CLDP's continuing work in support of technical training for the staff of the newly formed Egyptian Competition Authority (ECA), four ECA staff members were sponsored to attend a workshop dedicated to Merger Notification and Procedures in Brno, Czech Republic on March 18-19, 2008.

Three officials from the Egyptian Competition Authority participated in the Antitrust Law Conference in Washington DC from March 25-28, 2008.

Following on several training programs and workshops for the newly organized Egyptian Competition Authority (ECA), CLDP sponsored the participation of legal and economic staff from the ECA to attend a workshop on Antitrust and Economics to be held from May 13-16, 2008 in Washington, DC.

On Tuesday, June 3, 2008, representatives from government and private sectors of Egypt and the U.S. met to witness the signing of the Memorandum of Understanding between the Egyptian Organization for Standardization and the American National Standards Institute.

Competition officials and staff from several regional countries attended this North African Regional Competition Conference in Tunis, Tunisia on June 30, 2008, to present and discuss the issues, best practices and commonalities of their competition law advancement.

Since 2006, CLDP, in cooperation with the Federal Trade Commission and the Justice Department, has provided technical assistance to the Egyptian Competition Authority (ECA) to help implement the new competition law and foster a competition culture in Egypt.

Through the support and recommendation of the Commercial Law Development Program, the Senior Economist of the Egyptian Competition Authority (ECA) was accepted as a Federal Trade Commission (FTC) International Fellow worked in Washington DC from mid September 2008 until mid December 2008 in the FTC...

Egyptian Officials from the Egyptian Competition Authority participated in the Fordham Annual Conference on International Antitrust Law and Policy in New York City.

CLDP sponsored the travel of USTR's Marideth Sandler to Tunisia and Egypt, October 24-November 4, 2008.

Three officials from the Egyptian Competition Authority participated in the International Cartel Network workshop on Cracking Cartels - Recent International Developments on October 27, 2008.