Common use of Technical Cooperation and Capacity Building Clause in Contracts

Technical Cooperation and Capacity Building. The Parties agree that it is in their common interest to work together, multilaterally or bilaterally, on technical cooperation activities to build necessary capacities to strengthen competition policy development and competition law enforcement, taking into account the availability of resources of the Parties. Technical cooperation activities may include: sharing of relevant experiences and non-confidential information on the development and implementation of competition law and policy; the exchange of consultants and experts on competition law and policy; the exchange of officials of competition authorities for training purposes; participation of officials of competition authorities in advocacy programmes; and other activities as agreed by the Parties.