ICC Antitrust Compliance Toolkit (2024)
ICC Antitrust Compliance Toolkit (2024)
The Toolkit is now available on the ICC website and can be downloaded free of charge.
Published with the endorsement of Olivier Guersent, Director General for Competition at the European Commission, the Toolkit was updated to reflect changes that have taken place over the last decade in antitrust compliance programmes, the developing views of antitrust enforcement agencies, as well as recent developments in areas of antitrust risk.
Broken down into ten chapters, the Toolkit provides the core principles to build a robust antitrust compliance programme. It includes insights and tips on how to conduct risk assessment, some guidance on the use of Artificial Intelligence as a detection tool in internal compliance investigations, and what red flags to look out for.
The core elements to a credible corporate compliance programme featured in the ICC Toolkit are:
- Compliance embedded as company culture and policy
- Compliance organization and resources
- Risk identification and assessment
- Antitrust compliance know-how
- Antitrust concerns-handling systems
- Handling of internal investigations
- Disciplinary action
- Antitrust due diligence
- Compliance incentives
- Monitoring and continuous improvement
We strongly invite you to read the new Toolkit which has been streamlined to make it more concise and user-friendly to the users, be they in-house legal teams, compliance officers, external counsel, business leaders, and policymakers. Please feel free to share it with your colleagues and contacts, and/or anyone seeking to reinforce their antitrust compliance programme and policy.
We would like to thank the Co-Chairs of the ICC Task Force on Antitrust Compliance Policy Harmonization: Charlotte Breuvart, Dan Roskis, and Gordon Christian, for driving this collective work. We would also like to recognize the diligence and expert contributions of the other international authors, without whom this update would not have been possible.
Finally, ICC is happy to dedicate the Second Edition of the ICC Antitrust Compliance Toolkit to Anne Riley whose work and legacy continue to endure throughout these pages.