Press releases - Competition
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...
2007-09-11 / 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.
2007-05-31 / Annual Report 2006 The Office for the Protection of Competition issued Annual Report for the year 2006
2007-04-30 / Record fine for engineering companies Chaiman of the Czech office for the Protection of Competion (UOHS) Martin Pecina has reduced in his second instance decision the record fine imposed on 16 international engineering companies. The verdict has taken effect and the companies can turn to the Regional Court in Brno
2007-04-20 / Office confirmed CZK 55 million fine for building savings companies Mr. Martin Pecina, Chairman of the Office for the Protection of Competition (UOHS), has confirmed a CZK 55 million fine imposed on six building savings societies for an illegal exchange of information
2007-03-20 / Historical sanction for Cartel agreement Office for the Protection of Competition (ÚOHS) by its decision from 9th February 2007, which has not come into force yet, imposed the highest fine in its history. Sanction in an amount nearly 1 billion CZK (979,221 mil.CZK – 37 million €) applies to the biggest producers of gas-insulated switching mechanism...
2007-03-13 / RWE Transgas fined 240 million CZK Chairman of the Czech Competition Authority (Úřad pro ochranu hospodářské soutěže - ÚOHS) Martin Pecina has imposed a fine of CZK 240,000,000 on RWE Transgas, the dominant gas supplier for an abuse of dominant position. First-instance decision of ÚOHS from August last year has been confirmed in main points
