Laos has had competition law in some form since 2004, when Decree 15/PMO (4/2/2004) on Trade Competition was promulgated. However, the Decree has not been implemented to date, and this is unlikely to change in the immediate future given that there appear to be plans to have a more comprehensive competition regime passed by the National Assembly Conference in 2015.

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