This presentation comprises key figures included in the publication OECD COmpetition Trends 2020 released on 26 February 2020 during the OECD Competition Open Day in Paris. The full publication can be found at oe.cd/comp-trends.

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OECD
COMPETITION
TRENDS 2020
Discover new and unique data on agencies’
resources, cartel detection, sanctions, abuse
of dominance and merger reviews.
STATISTICAL
HIGHLIGHTS

2. Figure 1.1. Coverage of the
OECD COMPStats database

3. Figure 1.5. Selected data of CompStats
competition agencies, 2018
Budget
Total: EUR 859 million
Average: EUR 20 million
Abuse and Cartel: 647
Mergers: 8 459
Total: 7 428
Average: 153
Staff Decisions

4. Figure 1.8. Fine-to-budget ratio in cartel and abuse cases
by jurisdiction and by region, 2015-2018
0
5
10
15
20
25
30
All jurisdictions OECD Non-OECD Americas Asia-Pacific Europe Other
Number of times fines
exceed budget
2015 2016 2017 2018
101 300

5. Figure 2.7. Average duration of an
international cartel investigation, 1985-2018
0
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
1985 1988 1991 1994 1997 2000 2003 2006 2009 2012 2015 2018
Number of years
Year of discovery

6. Figure 2.9. Number of international cartel agreements
initiated by region, 1990-2009
0
10
20
30
40
50
60
70
1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009
Europe Africa Asia Global Americas

7. Figure 2.13. Average duration of
international hard core cartels, 1981-2013

8. Figure 2.15. Average duration of
international hard core cartels, 1981-2013
0
5
10
15
20
25
Start year
Number of years
OVERALL AVERAGE
6.67 years

9. Figure 2.18. Evolution of international
cartels over time, 1975-2010
0
5
10
15
20
25
30
35
40
1975 1980 1985 1990 1995 2000 2005 2010
Number of cartels
Start year of the infringement
No bid rigging Bid rigging

10. Figure 2.16. Average duration of international
cartels in years, by region, 1989-2018

11. Figure 2.19. Percentage of bid rigging
cartels by region, 1989-2018

12. Figure 2.20. Distribution of abuse
of dominance decisions, 2015-2018
6
2110
2
4
5 No decisions
Less or equal 5Between 5 and 10
Between 10 and 20
Between 20 and 50
More than 50

13. Figure 2.27. Overview of mandatory and voluntary
merger notification regimes in CompStats jurisdictions
44
2
2
2
1 2 1 1
Mandatory and pre-merger
Mandatory and post-merger
Mandatory and pre- or post-merger
Voluntary and pre-merger
Voluntary and pre- or post-merger
Mandatory or voluntary but pre-merger
Mandatory or voluntary and either pre- or post-merger
No merger regime

14. Figure 2.29. Selected criteria for
establishing merger notification thresholds
52
15
9
5
0
10
20
30
40
50
60
Turnover Assets Market share Transaction value
Number of jurisdictions using the parameter

15. Figure 2.30. Number of merger decisions and
notifications in selected regions, 2015-2018 (per 1000)
2.201 2.318
2.644 2.741
1.467 1.396
1.36
1.461
3.282
3.499
3.605
3.828
0.317
0.4
0.449
0.429
7.62
7.874
8.172
8.726
0
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
2015 2016 2017 2018
Americas Asia-Pacific Europe Other Number of notifications

16. Figure 2.35. Use of
phase-two remedies, 2015-2018
0%
5%
10%
15%
20%
25%
30%
35%
40%
45%
0
10
20
30
40
50
60
70
80
90
100
2015 2016 2017 2018 2015 2016 2017 2018 2015 2016 2017 2018 2015 2016 2017 2018 2015 2016 2017 2018 2015 2016 2017 2018 2015 2016 2017 2018
All jurisdictions OECD Non-OECD Americas Asia-Pacific Europe Other
Absolute number of remedies As percentage of total decisions

17. Figure 3.1. Number of cartel cases for
which prison sentences were imposed, 2015-2018
49187 12
2015 2016 2017 2018

18. Figure 3.10. Average fine imposed for
international cartels (EUR million)

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