The paper provides a comparative overview of the BRICS competition regimes with a special focus on the institutional design of the national competition authorities in these countries. It analyses the institutional design of the competition law authorities in the BRICS countries by looking at their autonomy, resources (financial and human), enforcement powers, technical capacity and workload. The paper represents an academic contribution to the mutual learning and experience sharing in the field of competition law currently pursued by the competition authorities of the BRICS countries with the aim to strengthen their institutional and procedural competition enforcement frameworks.