Back to office report: ICN Annual Conference

The ICN Annual Conference was held from 6 – 9 May 2025, in Edinburgh Scotland, hosted by the Competition and Markets Authority. The Conference focused on not only the emerging issues of regulating digital markets and the food and agriculture markets, but also looked at ‘back-to-basics’. The sessions discussed the role of competition policy in driving productivity, innovation and growth, theories of harm in merger review, public procurement and competition and new antitrust regulations, among others.