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Restrictive Agreements

Recent regulatory focus on the retail sector

March 11, 2025 and , , ,
The price increases in both food and non-food products on the retail markets in the former Yugoslavia have triggered increased public pressure, including consumer boycotts, while the national authorities are...
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Price Fixing in Public Procurement: Montenegrin Competition Agency finds a restrictive agreement between travel agencies

February 24, 2025, , ,
On 13 February 2025, the Montenegrin Agency for Protection of Competition ruled that three travel agencies: Marco Polo Travel Agency, Inter Travel Club, and Zinza Group, all based in Podgorica,...
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Montenegrin Competition Agency finds a restrictive agreement between telecom operators

December 4, 2024, , ,
In the context of the Montenegro’s improved EU accession prospects, the country’s Agency for Protection of Competition (“Agency“) has stepped up its enforcement efforts. Most recently, in a decision adopted...
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The Serbian Commission for Protection of Competition unveils draft of the new Vertical Block Exemption Regulation

July 23, 2024, , ,
The Serbian Commission for Protection of Competition (“Commission“) has launched a short public consultation process on the drafts of four new block exemption regulations: (i) Regulation on categories of vertical...
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Dawn raid in the practice of Serbian Commission for Protection of Competition – Does the authority’s seize and sift approach go too far?

April 18, 2024, , ,
The decision of the Serbian Commission for Protection of Competition (“Commission“) fining two major coffee producers in Serbia, Atlantic Group and Strauss Adriatic, for concerted practice on the market for...
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Serbian Competition authority upholds its practice on resale price maintenance as a restriction by object: Serbian ceramic tile producer fined for setting minimum resale prices

April 11, 2024, , ,
The Serbian competition authority published its decision on resale price maintenance (RPM) by Polet-keramika, a company operating within the ceramic tile sector in Serbia. Polet-keramika was fined 0.4% of its...
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Montenegrin Agency for Protection of Competition fines the two largest petrol producers for concerting to fix retail prices of LPG

April 3, 2024, , ,
The Montenegrin Agency for Protection of Competition (“Agency”) published on 25 March 2024 a decision finding that the two largest petrol companies in Montenegro restricted competition on the retail market...
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Serbian Anti-Trust Commission fines two coffee producers and conditionally approves their merger

March 8, 2024, ,
On 29 February 2024, the Serbian competition authority published its decision dated 29 December 2023 imposing fines on Croatian Atlantic Group and its two Serbian subsidiaries (“Atlantic“), and Serbian coffee...
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Serbian competition authority continues its focus on RPM in e-commerce space

February 3, 2023, , , ,
The Serbian Commission for Protection of Competition continues its RPM chasing spree. It has opened on 1 February 2023 yet another investigation into an alleged RPM practice, this time against...
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The new VBER and how it affects the assessment of vertical agreements in candidate countries

July 13, 2022, , ,
The European Commission adopted in May 2022 a new Vertical Block Exemption Regulation (VBER) and new Vertical Guidelines (Guidelines), effective as of 1 June 2022 and valid until 31 May...
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