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The Third Annual Conference of the International Competition Network (ICN) was held in Seoul, Korea, on April 21-22, 2004. An ICN panel on Improving the Effectiveness of Competition Advocacy was presented the day before the Annual Conference during the Seoul Competition Forum 2004. The Conference was opened by Dr. Chul-kyu Kang, Chairman, Korea Fair Trade Commission and host of the Conference, and Dr. Fernando Sánchez Ugarte, Chair of the ICN Steering Group and President of the Mexican Federal Competition Commission. One hundred and sixty one representatives, representing 55 antitrust agencies from 49 jurisdictions, and 96 non-governmental experts (referred to as non-governmental advisors or NGAs), 11 observers, and special guests met in Seoul to continue their valuable work on merger review and capacity building and the implementation of competition policy, to discuss antitrust enforcement in regulated sectors, to assess the implementation of previously-adopted Recommendations of the ICN, to agree upon the establishment of a new working group on cartels, and to discuss proposals for future work.