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The Competition Council of Latvia is a subordinate institution to the Ministry of Economics. The purpose is to ensure the 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.
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Once a year, the institution prepare a annual report on its performance in the previous year. The public reports provide summary information on the institution's goals and work results, as well as the planned priorities for the next year.
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Principle "Consult at first"
Principle "Consult at first" aims to improve cooperation between authorities and entrepreneurs by promoting compliance with national requirements and clear operating conditions.
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This section summarizes the information provided by the institution to citizens and businesses in person or electronically.
Reporting a violation
Examination of a submission regarding violations of the Competition Law
Submission of a notified agreement of market participants
Submission of the Law on the Prohibiation of Unfair Retail Practices supervision
The examination of the submission regarding violations of the Advertising Law
The decision on the market participant mergers
Public information on competition issues in the field of protection and surveillance
Consultation and examination of submissions regarding competition law issues
Opinion on the involvement of a public person in commercial activities
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Directions of Action of the Competition Council.
Prohibited Agreements
A prohibited agreement is one of the severest violations of competition law, and the Competition Council has declared the detection of such agreements its operational priority.
Exclusion from a procurement procedure
Conditions for exclusion of candidate or tenderer from the procurement procedure.
Leniency programme
Abuse of Dominant Position
Dominant position is an economic position in a relevant market of a market participant if such participant has the capacity to significantly hinder, restrict or distort competition in any relevant market for a sufficient period of time by acting with full or partial independence from competitors, clients, suppliers or consumers.
Merger Control
Within the meaning of the Competition Law, a merger is considered to be not only consolidation and takeovers among companies but, under specific circumstances, also transactions that result in the acquisition of influence in another undertaking, or even only the assets of a company or the right of their use.
Short-form merger notification
Entrepreneurs may submit an short-form merger report to the Competition Council, which shall include significantly less information than the full report.
Unfair Retail trade
The purpose of the new Unfair Retail Trade Practices Prohibition Law is to restrict the use of the buying power of retailers against suppliers in order to balance the interests of suppliers and retailers in retail trade.
Retail trade of food products
Retail trade of non-food
Violations of the Advertising Law
The Competition Council monitors the compliance of advertising with the requirements of regulatory enactments if the specific interests of an individual market participant are not harmed, but the violation in the field of advertising causes, or may cause, substantial harm to competition as a whole.
Substantial harm to competition
Competition distortions created by public administrative bodies
The Competition Council information on competition distortions created by public administrative bodies - state and local government institutions, as well as capital companies owned by them.
Public adminstrative body participation in capital companies
Information about cases when public administrative bodies are allowed to engage in entrepreneurship
Promotion of Competition culture
Promotion of Competition culture is part of the Competition Council of Latvia activities to prevent the possibility of violations, offering a diverse range of competition culture promotion.
For consumers
Information on competition, harm caused by infringements of competition law, possibility to report of infringements.
For pupils and students
Stop-motion video contest for secondary school pupils "In competition - Better More" (2018)
Campaign "The most absurd obstacle to competition"
An annual campaign organized by the Competition Council, which promotes fair business and reveals obstacles in both regulatory enactments and public procurement.
Seminars
Information on the possibilities of the Competition Council to organize seminars for entrepreneurs and their associations, public administration bodies, lawyers and other interest groups on competition law and its practical application.
European Competition Day
Market surveillance
Market surveillance is an in-depth analysis of the competitive situation in a particular market using both publicly available information and company data.
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The CC establishes issues in the procedure for application of contractual penalties between retailers and suppliers during the COVID-19
The Competition Council (CC), when performing market study, established that there is a significant issue existing in the retail sector during the COVID-19 emergency situation in the activities of…
13.01.2021.
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The CC: Opening of express stores do not cause significant impact on the retail market structure
06.01.2021.
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The CC establishes the risk of infringement of the neutrality in competition in the field of waste collection services
04.01.2021.
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Juris Gaiķis starts to perform the office duties of the Chairman of the Competition Council
15.09.2020.
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A judgment of the Supreme Court confirms the conclusion of the Competition Council on competition restriction on the cremation market of Riga
07.08.2020.
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The CC develops a self-assessment tool, aimed at facilitating assessment of participation of public administrative bodies in a capital company
05.07.2020.
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