New Zealand is a signatory to the Agreement Establishing the ASEAN-Australia New Zealand Free Trade Area (AANZFTA) entered into between the Association of South East Asian Nations (ASEAN), Australia and New Zealand. Under this Agreement we develop our relationship with ASEAN member states, and have made commitments to facilitate co-operation regarding competition law and policy through, for instance, exchanging experience, publicly available information and officials for training purposes The ACCC and NZCC’s relationship is based on several legislative, inter-governmental and inter-agency agreements as outlined in our response to question 4.1. These arrangements have been formed against the background of the Australia New Zealand Closer Economic Relations Trade Agreement and have enabled both agencies to form a particularly close working relationship. The cumulative effect of these has been the convergence in our competition law regimes which are supported by a range of formal and informal arrangements.  NZCC and the ACCC have worked together to establish relationships with a number of jurisdictions and are increasingly engaging with other agencies in the Asia-Pacific region. Since 2014, the NZCC and ACCC have engaged ASEAN competition agencies through the Competition Law Implementation Programme (CLIP). CLIP was set up under the AANZFTA and has proved a valuable mechanism through which we provide investigatory assistance and capacity building guidance to develop other agencies’ expertise and improve regional cooperation. Although CLIP does not provide a forum through which we provide information within an investigatory context, it acts as a forum through which we provide assistance so that developing can enforce their own laws. The relationships we forge within this context will help build trust among these developing agencies through which regional co-operation can emerge in future.