Press Releases

2006-09-21 / Concentration Dalkia Morava /ZTO The Office for the Protection of Competition (hereinafter “the Office”) approved concentration of companies Dalkia Morava and Zásobování teplem Ostrava (ZTO) in its decision of 16 December 2002.

2006-09-21 / State aid for Nová Huť has a green light The Chairman of the Office for the Protection of Competition approved by his decision coming into force on 18 December 2002 an exemption from the prohibition of state aid in favour of company Nová Huť, a.s

2006-09-21 / Withdrawal of state aid granted to Nová Huť On 24 June 2002, the Office for the Protection of Competition decided on withdrawal of state aid, which had been provided with Nová Huť, a.s.

2006-09-21 / APCs tender not to be reviewed by the Office Mr Martin Pecina, Chairman of the Office for the Protection of Competition, rejected by his second-stage decision of 7th June 2006 an appeal of the company Patria Vehicles Oy against first-stage decision of the Office dealing with the company´s objections against the Ministry of Defence tender for supply of...

2006-09-21 / Fine 70.000 CZK for Statutory City of Brno confirmed The Office for the Protection of Competition imposed a fine amounting to 480,284 CZK on the Statutory City of Brno for breach of the Act on Public Procurement

2006-09-21 / The Office has started to assess UPC/Karneval merger The Office for the Protection of Competition received the proposal for concentration of companies UPC, Karneval Media and Forcable on the 13th of September 2006

2006-09-21 / President vetoed an amendment of the competition law An amendment of the Act on the Protection of Economic Competition was vetoed by President Václav Klaus on the 7th June after the Chamber of Deputies had overturned the Senate´s rejection of the bill

2006-09-21 / Merger of mineral waters producers approved Office for the Protection of Competition (ÚOHS) approved in its first instance decision merger between mineral water producers Karlovarské minerální vody (KMV) and Poděbradka with conditions providing to keep the current trademarks for another five years and preserve price differences between products.

2006-09-21 / Český Telecom abused its dominant position on the ADSL market The Chairman of the Office for the Protection of Competition Martin Pecina imposed by his second-instance decision a fine ammounting to 80 million CZK upon the company Český Telecom for abuse of dominant position on the market for mediation of access to the Internet services and for transmission of data by...

2006-09-21 / ÚOHS fines Chamber of Pharmacists Chairman of the Office for Protection of Competition (ÚOHS) Martin Pecina confirmed a Kč 300,000 fine for the Czech Chamber of Pharmacists