Competitive Neutrality Toolkit
Promoting a Level Playing Field
The Competitive Neutrality Toolkit provides a set of good practices, based on examples from international experience, to support public officials in identifying and reducing distortions to competition due to state intervention. It supports the implementation of the principles set out in the OECD Recommendation on Competitive Neutrality to promote a level playing field, and covers the Recommendation’s main themes: competition law and enforcement, regulatory environment, public procurement, state support, and public service obligations.
Also available in: French
Executive summary
The OECD Recommendation on Competitive Neutrality [OECD/LEGAL/0462], hereafter the “Recommendation”, defines competitive neutrality as “a principle according to which all Enterprises are provided a level playing field with respect to a state’s (including central, regional, federal, provincial, county, or municipal levels of the state) ownership, regulation or activity in the market”. It recommends that government intervention, for instance through regulation or state support, not distort competition in markets, i.e. that it not tilt the playing field in favour of certain market participants.
Also available in: French
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