Santo Domingo – The Dominican Republic’s National Commission for the Defense of Competition, widely known as ProCompetencia, is set to host its landmark 4th annual Competition Week 2026 from November 2 to 6 at Santo Domingo’s Crowne Plaza Hotel, assembling a cross-sector global cohort of stakeholders to reimagine fair market policy amid unprecedented global geopolitical upheaval. The five-day flagship gathering will convene heads of competition regulatory bodies across the Americas and beyond, representatives of multilateral governance organizations, leading economic scholars, senior public sector policymakers, and private industry leaders to unpack cascading new pressures facing fair market frameworks in an era of shifting trade blocs and fragmented supply chains. The official opening on Monday, November 2 will be headlined by a comprehensive public accountability address from María Elena Vásquez Taveras, President of ProCompetencia’s Board of Directors, who will deliver a full retrospective of the agency’s 2021–2026 administrative term, outlining key milestones, enforcement outcomes, and unmet priorities from her five-year tenure. A centerpiece of the week’s programming is the 2nd International Congress on Competition, anchored by the timely theme “Competition in Times of Geopolitical Transformations.” The congress will facilitate deep-dive sessions analyzing how rising global trade fragmentation, persistent post-pandemic supply chain disruptions, and evolving cross-border trade policy frameworks are reshaping competitive dynamics across Latin America, alongside targeted working groups to strengthen cross-border coordination between regional competition authorities to counter anti-competitive practices that transcend national borders. Additional high-profile scheduled activities include the official launch of the 2026 Competition Yearbook, a comprehensive annual compendium of regional market trend data and enforcement case studies, as well as a multi-stakeholder consultative forum on the proposed Organic Law on Antitrust and Economic Competition. The landmark draft legislation would introduce formal mandatory merger review protocols for the first time in the Dominican Republic, ramp up cartel prosecution capacity via a structured leniency program that offers reduced penalties for cooperating whistleblowers, expand ProCompetencia’s investigative authority to pursue hidden collusive activity, and restructure the agency’s institutional governance model to insulate its decision-making from political interference and bolster operational independence. The packed agenda also features the awards ceremony for the 10th annual Writing X Competition 2026, which honors outstanding student and early-career research on competition policy, the 3rd International Forum on Gender and Competition that explores structural barriers to fair market participation for women-led enterprises, and the 13th Annual Meeting of the Latin America and Caribbean Competition Cooperation Working Group, a longstanding regional coordination platform. Competition Week will draw to a close with the 20th edition of the Central American Competition Forum, themed “Informality, Growth, and Competition.” The closing summit will examine the corrosive links between widespread informal economic activity, collusive bid-rigging in public procurement processes, and suppressed inclusive economic growth across the Central American isthmus, and will culminate in the public presentation of the first-ever Central American Competition Yearbook and the formal adoption of the landmark Santo Domingo Declaration, a shared regional commitment to harmonize fair market enforcement standards. Full extended coverage of the event and related local economic policy updates is available via DominicanScope.