The aim of this conference is to address four key areas in EC Anti-cartel enforcement:

• Detection: How companies should go about detecting their own problem areas to improve preventive compliance or to be first in with their amnesty application.
• Multiple applications: How to deal with the sometimes conflicting demands of worldwide amnesty/leniency procedures.
• Plea-bargaining:What may be coming if the European Commission follows through on ideas for “direct settlement” of cartel procedures with agreed fines, radically changing current procedures.
• Fines: New directions in fining policy, as both the European Commission and national competition authorities revise their fining guidelines.

We have invited a distinguished group of competition agency officials from around the world, together with academics and in-house and external private practitioners.

We hope that, as in previous years, we may balance focus on the core policies involved with insight into practice, creating an interesting day which will be highly relevant for companies and their advisers.