Information on the Office for the Protection of Competition
The Office for the Protection of Competition is the central authority of state administration responsible for creating conditions that favour and protect competition, supervision over public procurement and consultation and monitoring in relation to the provision of State aid.
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2025-07-07 / Annual Report 2024 in English The Office for the Protection of Competition has published the English version of its 2024 Annual Report.The Office operates in the areas of competition protection, oversight of public procurement, control of significant market power, supervision of access to transport infrastructure, and in the field of coordination...
2025-07-02 / Office Fines Major Cartel in Railway Construction Sector More Than CZK 150 million By its first-instance decision, the Office for the Protection of Competition has imposed fines totalling CZK 157,693,000 on six undertakings for a series of cartel agreements related to public contracts for the repair, modification, or modernization of signalling and safety facilities at specific railway stations...
2025-06-12 / EUROMEDIA and PEMIC Concentration Approval Subject to Commitments, Acquirer is Obliged to Divest the Wholesale Distribution of Printed Books The Office for the Protection of Competition (hereinafter referred to as “the Office”) has approved the concentration of undertaking EUROMEDIA GROUP, a.s., PEMIC BOOKS a.s. and BOOKNET s.r.o. subject to the condition that part of the undertaking will be sold. The decision to approve the concentration, subject...
2025-06-10 / The Office Launches Sector Inquiry in the Area of Publicly Accessible Charging Stations for Electric Vehicles The Office for the Protection of Competition (hereinafter referred to as "the Office") has launched a sector inquiry into the area of publicly accessible charging stations. Specifically, it is examining the conditions of wholesale electricity supply and the conditions for the operation of publicly accessible...
2025-05-16 / Annual State Aid Conference in Brno – 11–12 June 2025 The State Aid Conference, organised in Brno by the Office for the Protection of Competition, will take place this year on 11 and 12 June 2025. Registration is already open
2025-04-25 / New competition tools: the way to more efficient competition law enforcement Opening remarks of the Chairman of the Office for the Protection of Competition Petr Mlsna delivered at the Interanational Chamber of Commerce Czech the Antitrust Conference in Prague on 24 April 2025
2025-04-24 / Appeal by EDF over Nuclear Tender was Dismissed The Chairman of the Office for the Protection of Competition (hereinafter referred to as "the Office"), Petr Mlsna, dismissed the appeal of Électricité de France against the first-instance decision in the case of the public contract of the contracting authority Elektrárna Dukovany II, a. s., for the construction...
2025-04-22 / MIDs Competition Authorities: Strengthening Competitiveness and Competition in the EU Single Market The Czech Office for the Protection of Competition, together with the competition authorities of Belgium, Ireland, the Netherlands, Portugal and Austria, has issued a joint statement warning against the relaxation of merger control rules, particularly with regard to mergers of large undertakings in the electronic...
