TAG-College and KAS Organize ?National Strategy Towards a Modern Competition Law for Jordan? Workshop

Five presentations will be delivered covering various topics such as; competition laws ? a theoretical approach; competition and the concept of the social market economy; Intellectual Property Rights and the business environment

AMMAN --- June 17, 2009 --- Under the Patronage of HE Amer Al-Hadidi, Jordan?s Minister of Industry and Trade, the Talal Abu-Ghazaleh College of Business/ German Jordanian University and Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung (KAS) Amman are organizing a workshop entitled National Strategy Towards a Modern Competition Law for Jordan on June 22, 2009 at Talal Abu-Ghazaleh Business Forum (TAG-Forum).

Five presentations will be delivered covering various topics such as; competition laws ? a theoretical approach; competition and the concept of the social market economy; Intellectual Property Rights and the business environment; the Jordanian experience with competition laws and the 2002 competition law-achievements, challenges and lessons learned.

Attorneys from Germany, United Arab Emirates, Jordan and Lebanon will take part in the event.

Konrad Adenauer Foundation (KAS)
Committed to advancing and maintaining democracy, freedom, and justice in the world, the Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung (KAS) with its headquarters in Berlin has continuously worked in the various fields of social, economic, educational, cultural, environmental, and security politics in an effort to strengthening political stability, economic prosperity, regional integration, and mutual understanding since 1955. In Jordan, KAS has been active through its Amman Office for more than 25 years aiming at sustainable social, political, and economic development.

Talal Abu-Ghazaleh College of Business (TAG-College)
Talal Abu-Ghazaleh College of Business (TAG-College) Was established in 2006 to offer high quality business programs. It is the first college of its kind to represent a partnership between the private and the public sectors in the Arab world. This unique partnership brings the business expertise of Talal Abu-Ghazaleh Organization (TAG-Org) to the academic world of the German Jordanian University (GJU).

TAG-College offers MBA degrees in one of the following concentrations: International Accounting, Management, Quality Management, Human Resources Management, Banking and Finance, Marketing and Islamic Business Finance.