The Application and Research Center for Competition and Regulation (ARCCR) as a research partner of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) has been remotely represented by the vice directors of Dr. Erman Eroğlu and Dr. Fatih Buğra Erdem in the “Twentieth Session of the Intergovernmental Group of Experts on Competition Law and Policy” and the “Thirteenth Meeting of the UNCTAD Research Partnership Platform”, held on 20 July 2022 at Room XVII of the Palais des Nations. 

This year’s Research Partnership Platform meeting consisted of the relationship between consumer protection and sustainability policies under the United Nations Agenda 2030 on Sustainable Development. Also, in the annual meeting this year, speakers addressed the topic of consumer protection and sustainability as well as emerging issues related to New Brandeis movement/Ordo-liberalism in competition enforcement.