National Commission for Markets and Competition of the Kingdom of Spain:

Memorandum of Understanding signed on January 28, 2019 in Madrid. It aims to develop exchanges in the areas of regulatory engineering and jurisprudence in competition policies and law; and to exchange best practices related to investigation and inquiry methods, as well as procedures for conducting sector studies. It also aims to promote cooperative relations between economic governance authorities and national regulatory bodies.

Competition Authority of Portugal:

A meeting focused on strengthening bilateral cooperation took place in Lisbon on April 10, 2019. It focused on examining the areas of cooperation between the two national economic governance institutions. It was also agreed, during this meeting, to establish a conventional framework allowing the exchange and sharing of best practices between the two institutions in competition policies and law, as well as in strengthening the capacities of instructors, reporters, and investigators from both institutions.

World Bank Group:

Following an exchange process and meetings between World Bank Group experts and Council teams, the proposed cooperation program would revolve around the following components:

• Development of the institutional framework to support the effective implementation of competition policy
• Strengthening antitrust framework to address anticompetitive practices and limit the negative effects of concentrations
• Promotion of competition in sectoral policies.

UNCTAD:

A partnership request was negotiated in December 2018 during the UNCTAD/MENA workshop. Its formatting is currently in progress.

Memorandum of Understanding with Chile:

This Memorandum aims to establish a general framework for bilateral cooperation between the two National Authorities through the exchange of information on legislative, regulatory developments, as well as jurisprudence in competition law and policy, sharing of best practices and experiences in investigations of competition rule violations, sector studies, and the preparation of annual activity reports and experiences between the two National Competition Authorities and sectoral regulatory authorities of both countries.

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The institutional twinning project between the Competition Council of the Kingdom of Morocco and a counterpart institution of a Member State of the European Union was approved by the European Union Delegation in Rabat at the end of December 2020 and then forwarded to the European Commission in Brussels. After a 5-month project review phase, the Commission issued a tender in June 2021, to which a consortium composed of three competition authorities from the following Member States responded:

– Greek Competition Authority (project leader)

– Poland (Junior Project Leader)

– Italy (Junior Project Leader)

This offer was submitted to a technical committee composed of representatives from the Competition Council, the European Union Delegation in Rabat, and the Directorate of the Treasury and External Finance (Ministry of Economy and Finance) as the contracting authority for the project. After evaluation, the Council gave a favorable opinion. The twinning contract was signed in December 2021 under the title: “Strengthening the institutional capacities of the Competition Council” and with reference number MA 18 ENI FI 01.

The Objectives of this twinning.

• Strengthening the institutional capacities of the Council;
• Sharing best practices in the fight against anticompetitive behaviors;
• Harmonization and convergence of legislation between Morocco and the European Union in competition law and economics.

The consortium proposes the following 4 components to meet the Council’s objectives:

• Component 1: support for the Council’s legal monitoring;
• Component 2: Updating the Council’s methodological tools in line with the shared acquis and best practices;
• Component 3: Strengthening the capacities of trainers and executives of the Council following its new legislative attributions;
• Component 4: Support for the promotion of a “competition culture”

Project financing:

• Actions fully funded by the European Union;
• Total budget allocated for the 4 components: 900,000 euros;
• Budget breakdown by component;
• Disbursement by stage;
• Authorizing Officer: Resident Adviser of the Twinning.

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Following a process of exchange and meetings between experts from the World Bank Group, the Competition Council signed a service agreement with the International Finance Corporation (World Bank Group) in January 2020 for a duration of 3 years. This partnership covers the following three components:

• Strengthening the antitrust framework to combat anticompetitive practices and limit the negative effects of economic concentrations;
• Promoting competition in sectoral policies to enhance competitive dynamics in key sectors of the economy;
• Developing an institutional ecosystem to support the effective implementation of competition policy.

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