Slovak national regime of the protection against anticompetitive interventions by public authorities
Slovak national regime of the protection against anticompetitive interventions by public authorities

Author(s): Lukáš Lapšanský
Subject(s): Law, Constitution, Jurisprudence, Law on Economics, EU-Legislation, Commercial Law, Administrative Law
Published by: Societatea de Stiinte Juridice si Administrative
Keywords: Act on the Protection of Competition; anticompetitive interventions by public authorities; the Antimonopoly Office of the Slovak Republic;
Summary/Abstract: The Slovak Act on the Protection of Competition prohibits the public authorities from restricting competition by providing evident support giving advantage to certain entrepreneurs, or in any other manner. This national regime of protection against anticompetitive interventions by public authorities evolves alongside the European one. The issue of a normative administrative act, the issue of an individual administrative act (or failure to issue such act, where it should have been issued), adoption of decision by a representative body or conclusion of a contract were identified as vectors of unlawful intervention into competition. The creation of a situation of inequality of income, costs or obligations of undertakings (or tolerating such situation), the creation of barriers to the participation in the market or giving advantage to certain undertakings in their competitive or supplier/customer relations were declared as having anticompetitive effect.

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