Practitioners say that this year, Agnete Gersing, who became the head of Denmark's Competition Authority in 2006, has begun to make her mark on the agency, including a raft of new measures to improve the country's merger control regime. Gersing, a former deputy secretary in the prime minister's office, says her aim is to improve the quality of the authority's work in the long term, although lawyers say this can mean that the authority focuses on cases it can win rather than investigating new and controversial areas.