Algeria

General Information

• About Algeria and the EU in general, see the EU External Action website Algeria’s page
• The European Commission Delegation in Alger has its own website
• See the newest Statement of 20 June 2011 on the meeting of the Association Council FR
• Réponse de l’UE au printemps arabe: nouveau train de mesures d’aide en faveur de l’Afrique du Nord et du Moyen-Orient
• Nouveau soutien européen pour la jeunesse en Algérie
• EU réponse au “printemps arabe”

Legislation

• Algeria is one of the Mediterranean countries with a rather long tradition of competition law and enforcement : as a general introduction to competition law and policy in Algeria, see the 2011_08_28_Algeria_Summary, by Rainer Bierwagen.
• The competition legislation can be found at the Algerian Commerce Ministry website, which provides among other texts one of the most important text regarding competition law: the 19 July 2003 ordonnance n°03.03

Implementation

• The legislation is implemented at administrative level by the Ministry of Commerce and the independent Conseil de la Concurrence. However, the Conseil cannot act given that its members have no confirmed mandate.
• See also some important organisation charts like Organigramme de la Direction Générale de la Régulation et de l’Organisation des Activités and Direction Générale du Contrôle Économique de la Répression des Fraudes
• The courts’ judgments are only available in Arabic, with no website available yet.
• Algeria has a regulator for electricity and gaz; Commission de Régulation de l’Electricité et du Gaz (CREG)

Programmes

• The Support Programme for the implementation of the Algerian European Association Agreement can be followed on the p3a website
• Competition law and enforcement training sessions were held in 2009 and 2010.  In 2011, German, French and Italian authorities joined forces for a new project.  See P3A 1 and 2.  For some of the documents presented during FACICO Support Programme Training sessions see:

1. Deutsche Telekom, Pricing Strategy for local access to the fixed telephony network (2003)
2. Exemptions et exemptions par catégorie
3. Wanadoo, Abuse of a Dominant Position in the form of predatory pricing in ADSL based Internet Access Services for the general public (2010)
4. Cas pratiques de contrôle de concentration (2010)
5. Organisation, protection, sécurité des consommateurs (2010)
6. Photo participants seminaire FACICO Alger 28 juin 2010

News and other useful information

• For other useful information on Algeria, check Chems-eddine Hafiz blog on Law in Arabic Countries and Maghreb