Press releases - Competition

2006-10-02 / Acquisition of printing houses by company Verlagsgruppe Passau, subject to conditions The Office for the Protection of Competition has approved the concentration of German media group Verlagsgruppe and Czech printing houses NTISK and NOVOTISK subject to conditions

2006-09-26 / Court confirmed 205m CZK fine for telecommunication company The Regional Court in Brno today rejected the complaint filed by Telefónica O2 Czech Republic, a.s. (former ČESKÝ TELECOM) against a fine of 205 million CZK imposed by the Office for the Protection of Competition for abuse of dominant position in the end of the year 2005

2006-09-22 / Agrofert can take control of Agrotec, Agri CS The Office for the Protection of Competition has approved the concentration of Agrofert Holding and agricultural machinery sellers AGRI CS a.s. and CARLOS, spol. s r.o. (owner of company Agrotec

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 / 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

2006-09-21 / Acquisition of TV Nova approved The Office for the Protection of Competition approved the acquisition of TV Nova group companies by the foreign media group CME

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 / 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...