Aims
The main aim of the Competition Council is to ensure possibility to every market participant to perform his economic activities in free and fair competition environment as well as to promote competition development in all sectors of national economy for the benefit of all society.
Tasks
- to supervise, how prohibition of abuse of dominant position and prohibited agreements, provided by the Competition Law, other regulatory enactments and international agreements, has been followed
- to supervise, how the Advertising Law has been followed in cases when relevant damage to the competition can be done
- to review notifications submitted on agreements of market participants and adopt decisions regarding these agreements
- to restrict market concentration, to adopt decisions regarding mergers of market participants
- to co-operate with corresponding institutions abroad accordingly to the competences of institution
- accordingly to the competences of institution elaborate and under the defined procedure submit draft regulatory enactments to the Ministry of Economics
- to inform society about activities of the Competition Council and its decisions as well as to publish these decisions in mass media
- to prepare and to submit opinions on draft regulatory enactments examined by the Cabinet of Ministers, where issues of competition protection, maintenance or development are touched directly or indirectly
- to submit written proposals or opinions (if necessary) on observation of competition protection, maintenance or development principles in cases of public or municipal undertakings (business entities) privatisation, re-organisation and de-monopolisation
Strategy
In August 2006 the Cabinet of Ministers has adopted The Operational Strategy of the Competition Council 2007-2009. This document provides objectives and priorities for the Competition Council for period 2007-2009 in the frame of three main directions of activities.
- The First direction of activities, Defence of Competition, contains following main middle term priorities: improvements of analysis and supervisory methods for developing the approach based on effect versus form, improvements of investigation methods, strengthening of the proactive role of Competition Council in detection of more serious infringements of the Competition Law.
- The Second direction of activities, Promotion of Competition, contains such main middle term priorities as: improvement of market analysis methods, competition advocacy activities, as well as improvement of the system how Competition Council gives its opinion regarding the draft legislative acts.
- The Third direction of activities relates to the strengthening of work with the EU institutions and international competition institutions. Strategy also foresees strengthening of administrative capacity of Competition Council as well as strengthening the independence of authority, by providing necessary amendments in existing legislation.
