President of the Czech Republic, Mr. Klaus, inaugurated a new Chairman of the Office
“The Office for the
Protection of Competition has already established itself on our political and
economic scene and it is advisable that the Office was not afraid of exerting
its power and on the other hand so that it did not try to act as a Demiurge
which knows exactly how the structure of our market should look like and wants
to dictate or delineate our market relationships”, said the President of the Czech Republic and
expressed his wishes of many successes in accomplishing this difficult task to
the new Office´s Chairman. The acceding Chairman of the Office thanked the
President for the expressed trust and emphasized that he would especially pay
attention to the prevention of prohibited practices. “We will strive rather to
encourage the market players to eliminate possible insufficiencies in the way
that is given to us by the law, instead of punishing them. Fines are an
important part of our work, however, we must be convinced that we face a
malignant and intentional behaviour of undertakings”, said the new Chairman of
the Czech Competition Office. The new Chairman stressed that he would aim all
its effort at preserving the good name of the Office.
Press and Information Department of the Office
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