Press Releases

2006-09-21 / Mobile operators restricted competition Chairman of the Office for the Protection of Competition (hereinafter the Office), Mr. Josef Bednář, factually confirmed the Office’s first-stage decisions in the matter of administrative proceedings conducted with the undertakings Eurotel Praha, Český Mobil and T-Mobile Czech Republic.

2006-09-21 / Nearly 500 million CZK fine for building savings companies Office for the Protection of Competition of the Czech Republic completed the procedure concerning a cartel agreement in relation to increase of charges on the market of building savings

2006-09-21 / Fuels distribution - 313 million CZK fine Chairman of the Office for the Protection of Competition, in his second stage decision of 31 May 2004, confirmed the highest fine ever imposed by the Office in its history

2006-09-21 / ČEZ infringed competition law The Chairman of the Office for the Protection of Competition (the Office) Mr. Josef Bednář has by its second-instance decision imposed a fine amounting to 7.5 million CZK to the company ČEZ, a.s.

2006-09-21 / Cartel agreement Billa/Julius Meinl The Chairman of the Office for the Protection of Competition, Mr. Josef Bednář, has by its decision of 13 October 2003 imposed a total fine amounting to 51 million CZK on the companies BILLA (28 million CZK) and JULIUS MEINL (23 million CZK

2006-09-21 / Disapproval of a concentration on the sugar market The Chairman of the Office for the Protection of Competition (hereinafter “the Office”), Mr. Josef Bednář, approved by its decision of 25 August 2003, in the course of appellate procedure, the first-stage decision, which disapproved the concentration of German company Sūdzucker and French company Saint...

2006-09-21 / Company Česká rafinérská fined 6 million CZK The Chairman of the Office Mr. Josef Bednář imposed in its second-instance decision of 16 May 2003 a fine in amount of CZK six million to the company Česká rafinérská

2006-09-21 / Merger of ČEZ and regional distribution companies The Office for the Protection of Competition in its second-instance decision of 18 March 2003 approved subject to three conditions the concentration of the company ČEZ and three regional distributors of electricity.

2006-09-21 / Czech Medical Chamber fined 450.000 CZK The Chairman of the Office for the Protection of Competition Josef Bednář confirmed the fine amounting to 450,000 CZK imposed on the Czech Medical Chamber

2006-09-21 / Securities Centre abused dominant position The Office for the Protection of Competition imposed an effective fine amounting to 300,000 CZK on Securities Centre of the Czech Republic (hereinafter referred to as “the Centre”) for abuse of dominant position