Communication

The aim of the protection of market competition is primarily to create benefits for consumers and equal conditions for all entrepreneurs on the market, who, acting in accordance with the existing rules and competing on the market with the quality, price and innovation of their products and services, contribute to the overall development of the economy.

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ERA seminar for judiciary – Fundamentals of EU competition law

The Academy of European Law (ERA) organized a seminar on the basics of EU competition law for judges and State attorneys from all over Croatia on 11 October 2021 in Zagreb. The participants came from commercial and municipal courts, county and municipal State attorney’s offices.

In the course of the seminar, Mirta Kapural, PhD, the president of the Competition Council held a paper on “Agreements, decisions and concerted practices”. The paper defined prohibited agreements between undertakings and presented the categories of prohibited agreements in the sense of competition law. Article 101 of the Treaty on the functioning of the European Union was explained, followed by the relevant cases handled by the European Commission. The central part of the paper covered vertical agreements and block exemptions, explained using the examples from the relevant national and EU practice. The closing part dealt with prohibited horizontal agreements (cartels). An interesting discussion with the participants spread to the role of the courts and the State attorney’s office in the enforcement of competition rules in practice and their cooperation with the national competition authority.