Consistent and meaningful performance measures allow to assess the impact of the activities of competition authorities. This is useful to show the benefits of competition interventions for consumers, to enhance the credibility of the agency and to justify the use of the resources. The measurement of the activity of authorities also increases transparency and accountability, especially when authorities publish their priorities or work plan in advance. A growing number of competition authorities assess the impact of their interventions and report details of their activity. Competition authorities reports include a range of measures such as the number of interventions, the fines imposed or an assessment of the expected benefits for consumers arising from merger control activity and decisions on antitrust infringements.
Competition authorities can leverage the assessment of consumer benefits arising from competition interventions, as part of a wider communication strategy about the authority’s role and its contribution to the economy and the society to increase its awareness of and compliance with competition law.
In June 2023, the OECD held a roundtable on the assessment and communication of benefits of competition interventions to see how competition authorities measure the impact of their activity and how they communicate both the benefits of competition interventions and the benefits of competition more generally.
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