Press Releases
2008-07-30 / Administrative proceeding with the company Kofola settled The Office for the Protection of Competition terminated on 25 July 2008 the administrative proceeding with companies from the Czech section of the Kofola group.
2008-07-16 / Czech Railways fined CZK 270 million for abuse of dominant position on the market for rail freight transport The Office for the Protection of Competition has imposed a fine of CZK 270 million on the company České dráhy, a.s. (the Czech Railways Company) for abuse of dominant position on the market for rail freight transport of large volume substrates. By its behaviour, the company violated the Czech and the EC competition...
2008-06-09 / Record fine for contracting authority confirmed The Chairman of the Office for the Protection of Competition Martin Pecina confirmed a five million CZK fine imposed in September 2007 on state enterprise in liquidation Moravské naftové doly (Moravian Oil Wells, hereinafter "MND
2008-04-16 / Annual Report 2007 The Office for the Protection of Competition publishes its Annual Report for the year 2007.The publication is available here B.External Relations Department
2007-11-15 / Decision on cartel of pharmaceutical distributors confirmed Chairman of the Office for the Protection of Competition Martin Pecina confirmed by his second-instance decision a fine amounting to 113.064 million CZK imposed on four largest pharmaceutical distributors in the Czech Republic
2007-11-08 / The Office will file a cassation complaint The Office for the Protection of Competition is going to file later this week a cassation complaint to the Supreme Administrative Court against the ruling of Regional Court in Brno in the RWE Transgas case. The Office decided in the past that the company RWE Transgas abused its dominant position in the natural...
2007-09-24 / The highest fine imposed on MND Czech Office for the Protection of Competition has imposed in it´s first instance decision a fine worth Kc5m on state owned oil mining company Moravske naftove doly (MND) statni podnik for errors in tenders to remove environmental damage.
2007-09-11 / Office approves dairies merger The Office for the Protection of Competition has cleared the proposed acquisition of Czech dairies Moravskoslezske mlekarny a.s. and Mlekarna Klatovy a.s. by B.S.A. INTERNATIONAL of Belgium.
2007-08-09 / Breweries merger approved by the Office The Office for the Protection of Competition has approved merger of Austrian company BRAU-UNION Aktiengesellschaft, member of Dutch group Heineken, and Czech brewery Kralovsky pivovar Krusovice.
2007-07-24 / Producers committed cartel conduct in effort to influence the prices of chickens Fine for the poultry-producers comes to 14 million CZK.