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Czech Republic, Mergers, National competition authorities (NCAs), New Competition Tool, Sector inquiries

New competition tool and call-in power for mergers in Czechia?

Jan Kupčík (Schoenherr)/January 26, 2024January 25, 2024 /Leave a comment

The Czech Competition Authority (CCA) recently announced that it prepared a proposal to update the Czech Competition Act (the “Act”). While at present the proposal is just a set of ideas, it indicates how Czech competition enforcement may evolve in the years to come. Crucially, the CCA suggests deploying a “new competition tool” that will…

Abuse of dominance, Czech Republic, Damages, European Court of Justice, National court, Private actions, Private enforcement

AG’s Opinion in Heureka – On The Temporal Application of EU Damages Directive and Why Does it (Not) Matter

Jiří Kindl, Martin Holásek (Skils)/October 11, 2023October 11, 2023 /Leave a comment

Summary of Facts On 21 September 2023 the Advocate General Juliane Kokott presented her opinion in the Case C-605/21, Heureka Group a.s. v. Google LLC. The opinion addresses a request for a preliminary ruling from the Prague Municipal Court, which is hearing Heureka’s follow-on action against Google based on the Commission’s Decision C(2017) 4444 final…

Czech Republic, Enforcement, Enlargement, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Memorandum of Understanding, Moldova, Poland, Romania, Rule of Law, Slovakia, Ukraine

Europeanization, Regional Cooperation and the Challenges of Legal Transplants in Competition Law

Kati Cseres (University of Amsterdam) and Nataliia Mazaraki (State University of Trade and Economics and Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition)/June 12, 2023June 8, 2023 /Leave a comment

In April 2023, a Memorandum was signed between the competition authorities of eight Member States (Poland, Czechia, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Romania and Slovakia) and the competition authorities of the newest EU candidate countries Moldova and Ukraine for regional cooperation in the field of competition policy. The main objective of this initiative was to promote…

Abuse of dominance, Czech Republic, Supply chain

Regulation of Significant Market Power in Czech Food Supply Chain in 2023 and Beyond

Jan Kupčík (Schoenherr)/March 21, 2023March 20, 2023 /Leave a comment

Introduction Long before the Directive (EU) 2019/633 on unfair trading practices in business-to-business relationships in the agricultural and food supply chain (the “Directive”), the Czech Republic had passed an Act on significant market power in the sale of agricultural and food products and its abuse (the “Act”). At the beginning of its effectiveness in 2010,…

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The Prohibition on Dawn Raids in the Czech Republic has Ended

Arthur Braun (bpv Braun Partners )/April 21, 2015 /Leave a comment

Last autumn, the Czech Antitrust Office had announced that it halted its dawn raids. The decision came from – what many felt – was a surprise decision of the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg (ECHR) dated 2 October 2014 (DELTA PEKARNY a.s.). The Court held that the Czech Republic had violated Art. 8…

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No More Dawn Raids in the Czech Republic

Arthur Braun (bpv Braun Partners )/November 18, 2014 /Leave a comment

For a few weeks now, the Czech Antitrust Office has stopped its dawn raids. The reason for this stems from the surprising decision of the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg (ECHR) dated 2 October 2014 (DELTA PEKARNY a.s., complaint number 97/11). In this case, the Czech Republic was held to have violated Art….