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CCA dismisses the notification of proposed media concentration Slovenia Broadband and Nova TV

The Croatian Competition Agency (CCA) dismissed the notification of the proposed concentration between the undertakings Slovenia Broadband and Nova TV due to lack of standing to act.

Namely, on 14 November 2017 the Electronic Media Agency blocked the merger between Slovenia Broadband and Nova TV whose implementation would create an “inadmissible” concentration within the meaning of the Electronic Media Act.

Within the meaning of competition rules – including the Regulation on notification and assessment of concentrations and the Standard notification form – the notification party in the media sector, to which separate electronic media rules apply, must submit to the CCA also the previously obtained clearance of the Electronic Media Agency ruling that the implementation of the concentration concerned would not lead to a concentration inadmissible in the sense of the Electronic Media Act.

Given that Slovenia Broadband could not obtain such a clearance from the Electronic Media Agency who rendered the concentration “inadmissible”, the CCA found that there were no grounds for the initiation of the compatibility assessment proceeding regarding the concentration in question within the meaning of competition rules and dismissed the notification of the concentration concerned.