The Competition Authority and the National Authority for Probity, Prevention, ‎and the Fight Against Corruption (INPPLC) signed, on Thursday in Rabat, a ‎cooperation agreement aimed at strengthening institutional coordination and ‎complementarity between the two institutions.‎ 

The agreement seeks to enhance transparency, integrity, the regulation of ‎economic practices, and good governance, in line with the constitutional and ‎legal mandates of both authorities. It reflects their shared commitment to ‎preventing and combating unfair practices affecting economic relations, ‎market integrity, and sound economic and administrative management, in the ‎public interest.‎

 Under the terms of the agreement, the two institutions will, in particular:‎ 

• ‎Strengthen the prevention and repression of anti-competitive practices and ‎corruption through a coordinated and complementary approach;‎ 

• ‎Develop joint training, capacity-building, and expertise-exchange initiatives in ‎the fields of competition control, corruption prevention, business ethics, and ‎governance;‎ 

• ‎Organise awareness-raising activities, conferences, seminars, and workshops ‎on issues of common interest;‎ 

• ‎Enhance the exchange of information and data relating to commercial ‎practices and risk situations likely to undermine competition or market ‎integrity.‎ 

The agreement also provides for the establishment of a joint implementation ‎and monitoring mechanism to ensure close coordination in the preparation, ‎implementation, and evaluation of joint action plans, with a view to ensuring ‎the effective implementation of its provisions.‎ 

This cooperation marks an important step towards strengthening institutional ‎complementarity and contributing to a more transparent and competitive ‎national economy, grounded in the principles of integrity, accountability, and ‎trust in market regulation mechanisms.‎