St. Martin´s Conference 2023 about competition news, sports and mergers
This year, the participants of the conference can look forward to a regular summary of the developments at the Czech and Slovak competition authorities, which will be presented by Petr Mlsna, Chairman of the Office, Kamil Nejezchleb, Vice-Chair of the Office, and Juraj Beňa, Chairman of the Antimonopoly Office of the Slovak Republic. They will be joined by a representative of one of the Baltic States and, of course, a presentation of the latest activities of the European Commission's Directorate-General for Competition will also take place.
A special lecture on judicial perspective on competition issues will be presented by Karel Šimka, President of the Supreme Administrative Court. The sessions on the first day will be addressed to competition in the sports sector and merger review. Petra Košt'álová from the Office, Anna Głogowská from the Polish Competition Authority, attorney Jan Kupčík and academic Michal Petr from Palacký University in Olomouc will speak about sports issues. The session on mergers will be moderated by Martin Vitula from the Office and views on this globally relevant issue will be presented by Judit Buránszki from the Hungarian Competition Authority and attorneys Robert Neruda and Petr Zákoucký.
The second day of the conference will introduce a discussion on the first year of experience with the second extensive amendment to the Act on Significant Market Power. The session will include contributions of Petr Solský, Vice-Chairman of the Office, Jiří Brož and Pavel Dejl, attorneys at law, and Marijana Mutavdžić and Nikolina Radanović, representatives of the Croatian Competition Authority.
The conference will be concluded by traditional parallel workshops on current topics, this time including the amendment to the Act on Protection of Competition and practical issues related to services in the food supply chain.
2025-01-08 / Google Made Changes to one of its Services in Reaction to the Investigation of the Office Last year, the Office for the Protection of Competition investigated possible abuse of a dominant position by Google Czech Republic, s.r.o, its parent company Google International LLC and Google Ireland...
2024-11-19 / Pet Food Supplier VAFO Has to Pay CZK 120 million for Prohibited Resale Price Fixing The Office for the Protection of Competition (hereinafter referred to as “the Office”) imposed a fine of CZK 120,121,000 on the undertaking VAFO PRAHA (hereinafter referred to as "VAFO") for the...
2024-10-16 / The Office is Conducting a Dawn Raid at the Premises of the Undertaking Seznam.cz Following numerous media inquiries, we confirm that the Office for the Protection of Competition (hereinafter referred to as “the Office“) is conducting an unannounced inspection of Seznam.cz
2024-10-01 / Merger of PPF Group and Nordic Telecom May Take Place Subject to Commitments The Office for the Protection of Competition has cleared the merger by its final decision, as a result of which PPF TMT Holdco 2 B.V. may acquire, through O2 Czech Republic a.s., sole control over Nordic...
2024-09-16 / The 2024 St. Martin's Conference Program Will Offer a new Competition Tool and Private Enforcement The Office for the Protection of Competition (hereinafter referred to as "the Office") is preparing the 17th annual St. Martin Conference on trends, news and hot topics in the field of competition. The...
2024-07-11 / English Version of Annual Report 2023 published The Office for the Protection of Competition presents the English version of its annual report for the year 2023, summarising the results of its activities in all areas of its competence, i.e., in the...
2024-06-19 / Office for the Protection of Competition Cooperates with European Public Prosecutor's Office Today in Luxembourg, Mr Petr Mlsna, the Chairman of the Office for the Protection of Competition, signed an agreement with the European chief prosecutor, Ms Laura Codruţa Kövesi, on cooperation between...
2024-05-09 / The Office Revealed and Punished Another Cartel Agreement between Construction Companies The Office for the Protection of Competition imposed fines totalling CZK 7,442,000 on the construction companies B.H.S. BOHEMIA, a.s., SEŽEV facility s.r.o., COMMODUM, spol. s r.o. and Hroší stavby...
