AP participated in a Stakeholder Consultation Workshop within the framework of the project “Competition Policy and Law in ASEAN” (CPL), a cooperation between ASEAN and the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ), working upon commission by the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) in Vientiane on August 30-31, 2012. The objective of the workshop was to raise the general awareness about competition issues. In addition, the workshop would elaborate on the roadmap and outline of the Ministry of Industry & Commerce (MoIC) of Lao PDR for the formulation of a competition law for the country, in order get feedback from relevant stakeholders to refine the draft competition law.