The coming years will see further regional efforts in building competition related policy capabilities and best practices within the ASEAN community. The AEC is the natural progression for the ASEAN nations to create a cohesive ASEAN market, and to work towards the transformation of ASEAN into a single market that is highly competitive and fully integrated with the global community by 2015. Competition law and policy, being one of the important priorities in the implementation of the AEC Blueprint, will see the remaining ASEAN nations strive towards meeting the goals of the 2015 goal post. Companies active in the ASEAN region would do well to consider the dynamic competition law environment within and among the ASEAN nations, and ensure that their business practices are compliant with the respective
different national competition and sectoral laws.