Prime Minister Manmohan Singh will inaugurate 3rd BRICS International Competition Conference (ICC) here on Thursday.
The two-day conference is being organised by Competition Commission of India (CCI) on behalf of BRICS countries in pursuance of the Beijing Consensus, New Delhi Declaration and Action Plan adopted at Fourth BRICS Leaders Summit in New Delhi on March 29, 2012.
The theme of the conference will be "Competition Enforcement in BRICS Countries: Issues and Challenges".
The conference is organized biennially by one of the BRICS competition authorities on behalf of the all the BRICS competition authorities.
The first BRICS Competition Conference was organized in Kazan, Russia in September, 2009. The second BRICS ICC was organised in Beijing, China during 20-22 September, 2011.
The objective of the 3rd BRICS ICC is to discuss various issues and challenges in competition enforcement in BRICS countries and take the agenda of cooperation among the BRICS competition authorities forward from the earlier two conferences.
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