This 2-day Capacity Building Training provides CSOs with a basic but solid understanding of the main legal and economic principles of EU competition law, its enforcement system and institutional setting. At the end of the training they will be able to position their interests and design their possible course of actions in this legal framework.

By completing the training, CSOs will be capable of voicing their interests towards competition and other regulatory authorities, policy and law makers. They will be capable of effectively designing a course of action for enforcing their interests, considering the strategic benefits of participation in the decision making process if national law allows, or filing complaints to competition and regulatory authorities or before courts.  They will leave the training with contacts for individuals and organisations who may be able to help them and access to networks for knowledge sharing with other CSOs.

They will not only retain knowledge about the substantive and procedural competition rules but also specific skills and tools and other resources on how to use these to articulate their interests and to do their work competently and to a greater capacity to protect the interests they represent and to realize their strategic objectives.

In an interactive training setting and by exchanging and discussing case problems and solutions from the participants, the Training will broaden CSOs’ portfolio of cases and strengthen their advocacy work when facing and addressing governments, national parliaments as well as international organisations.