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Drexl, Josef --- "Economic Integration and Competition Law in Developing Countries" [2012] ELECD 896; in Drexl, Josef; Bakhoum, Mor; Fox, M. Eleanor; Gal, S. Michal; Gerber, J. David (eds), "Competition Policy and Regional Integration in Developing Countries" (Edward Elgar Publishing, 2012)

Book Title: Competition Policy and Regional Integration in Developing Countries

Editor(s): Drexl, Josef; Bakhoum, Mor; Fox, M. Eleanor; Gal, S. Michal; Gerber, J. David

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing

ISBN (hard cover): 9781781004302

Section: Chapter 11

Section Title: Economic Integration and Competition Law in Developing Countries

Author(s): Drexl, Josef

Number of pages: 22

Extract:

11. Economic integration and
competition law in developing
countries
Josef Drexl

1. INTRODUCTION
Developing countries may have a variety of reasons for introducing compet-
ition law in the framework of regional integration systems. Sometimes
regional competition law simply comes as part of a more comprehensive
package on economic integration. In this regard, the very successful Euro-
pean competition law model seems to work as the most convincing argument
for agreeing on a regional competition policy. Hence, developing countries
seem to `cut and paste' the European integration model by liberalizing trade
within the region and protecting such trade against cross-border restraints of
competition. The EU itself tends actively to export its model, such as in the
framework of the recent Economic Partnership Agreement with the CARI-
FORUM States (EU-CARIFORUM EPA).1 This agreement obliges the
Caribbean states to have a CARICOM Competition Commission,2 which
was consequently established in Paramaribo, the capital city of Suriname.3


1
Economic Partnership Agreement between the CARIFORUM States, of the
one part, and the European Community and its Member States, of the other part,
[2003] OJ L 289/I, p. 3. See also Stewart, T., `Regional Integration in the Caribbean:
The Role of Competition Policy', in this volume, Ch. 8. For an evaluation of this
policy, see also Bakhoum, M. (2010), `Commerce International, Politique de
Concurrence et Accords de Partenariat Economique: Réflexions sur les Enjeux et
Perspectives d'un Triptyque', Revue Africaine sur le Commerce et le Développe-
ment, (2), 3, ...