Note: Single-source report; awaiting corroboration.
The OECD's 2025 Competition Trends report shows that competition authorities saw an average 4.7% real-term increase in budgets and a 3.1% rise in staffing across 69 jurisdictions during 2023. These changes indicate stronger resources for competition enforcement.
The report also noted fewer cartel decisions in 2023, but leniency applications continued to rise, reaching their highest level since 2016. Investigations into abuse of dominance increased, reversing a decline from 2022. Merger intervention rates rose, mainly due to more approvals with remedies, despite fewer overall decisions.
The OECD highlighted digitalisation's impact, emphasizing that evolving digital markets pose significant challenges for competition authorities, requiring them to adapt enforcement strategies to address complex new dynamics.