By actively fostering and promoting efficient markets, the Committee for Competition Law and Policy plays a vitally important role in this process of microeconomic reform. Here is the list of member countries . Meetings are attending Committee members, observers and ad hoc invitees. Observers come from the competition authorities of Argentina, Brazil, Russia and the Slovak Republic and the staffs of the World Trade Organisation and the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development. Ad hoc invitees often join in Committee discussions, particularly concerning specific topics of competition analysis or sectoral regulation.
Meetings are on an invitation only basis.
The press has been invited to attend on occasion, such as the recent Conference on Trade and Competition. Business, labor and consumer organisations are invited on an ad hoc basis, according to the topic under discussion. All three types of organisations were well represented, for example, at the recent Conference on Trade and Competition. Labor and business have an ongoing consultative relationship with the OECD through the Trade Union Advisory Committee and the Business Industry Advisory Committee. The professional staff of the CLP division is composed of highly experienced lawyers and economists drawn from the competition authorities of OECD member countries.