Press releases - Competition

2018-08-20 / Annual Report 2017 The Office for the Protection of Competition published its Annual Report 2017

2017-08-14 / St. Martin´s Conference 2017 Traditionally, the Office for the Protection of Competition organizes the 11th Annual St. Martin´s Conference which will take place at the premises of the Office on 15 and 16 November

2017-06-28 / Annual Report 2016 published The Office for the Protection of Competition published its Annual Report 2016

2016-09-30 / St. Martin´s Conference 2016 The Office for the Protection of Competition organizes again the traditional St. Martin´s Conference on the recent trends and developments of the competition law. This year conference is going to be held in the premises of the Office on 9 and 10 November 2016

2016-05-26 / 25 Years Protecting Competition On 26th May 2016 the Office for the Protection of Competition organized a conference to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the competition law in the Czech Republic and the Office´s establishment on 1st June 1991

2016-05-06 / More fines imposed for prohibited agreements of construction companies On the 4 May 2016, the Office for the Protection of Competition adopted its first instance decision regarding the so-called small construction cartel. In the decision, the Office imposed fines amounting to CZK 278 million on 12 undertakings for 11 infringements of the competition law

2016-02-08 / Decision on cartel of construction companies confirmed, sanctiones were lowered On 8 February 2016 the Chairman of the Office for the Protection of Competition (the Office) Mr. Petr Rafaj issued a decision on the appeal against the first instance decision in case of so called construction cartel. The merits of the first instance ruling were confirmed. However, the Chairman of the Office...

2015-11-12 / St. Martin's Conference 2015 was concluded with a debate on significant market power The second day of the conference on current trends and innovations in the competition law launched three parallel workshops

2015-11-11 / Competition experts met again at the St. Martin´s Conference 2015 The ninth of the regular St. Martin´s Conference on trends and developments in competition law was launched today at the Brno headquarters of the Office for the Protection of Competition. More than 150 experts in competition law from the Czech Republic and abroad were welcomed by Vice-chairman of the Office...

2015-11-06 / Bid rigging construction cartel fined CZK 2.036 billion On the 6th November 2015, the Office for the Protection of Competition adopted the first instance decision regarding bid-rigging cartel agreement in the construction sector. The fines imposed on the cartel members amount to CZK 2.036 billion. As there is a high probability that the parties to the proceeding...