The fact that NIS, Serbian oil company in majority ownership of Russian Gazprom, has been enjoying a preferential “mining fee” regime thanks to the Serbia-Russia inter-governmental agreement (IGA) concluded in 2008, has been much discussed in the press. The IGA in question was the legal basis for the acquisition by Gazprom of 51% of issued […]
The Agency for Protection of Competition of Montenegro (“Agency“) has just published its 2016 Report, providing us with a detailed account of its activities in the previous year. The report is especially interesting for its pronounced criticism of the current competition law enforcement system in Montenegro, as well as for its announcement of a new competition […]
World Trademark Review (WTR) included Bogdan Ivanišević, BDK Advokati’s head of IP practice, among the leading trademark practitioners in Serbia in the 2017 edition of WTR 1000 – The World’s Leading Trademark Professionals. WTR quotes a source lauding Ivanišević as “reliable and skilful“, and “always well informed and up to date with the latest IP […]
On 13 March 2017, the Commission for the Protection of Competition of the Republic of Serbia (“Commission“) fined Victoriaoil and Vital, two out of four players on the market of oil products in Serbia, a total of approx. EUR 258,000, for entering into an anticompetitive horizontal agreement concerning refined consumable sunflower oil. The decision is remarkable for […]
Tijana Kojović, Managing Partner of BDK Advokati and head of the firm’s competition law practice, has co-authored with colleague Dragan Gajin the first English-language monograph on Serbian competition law. The monograph has been published as part of the Wolters Kluwer series ‘International Encyclopaedia for Competition Law’.
The Montenegrin Agency for Protection of Competition announced on 22 March 2017 that it had carried out a dawn raid at the premises of a transport company in Cetinje. The Agency did not specify in its announcement which competition infringement is being investigated in this case, but it confirmed that “the party to the proceedings […]
Marko Popović, associate in BDK Advokati’s IP and data protection practice, gave a lecture “Street photography through the lens of copyright and right to privacy”, as part of the international festival Belgrade Photo Month, on 19 April 2017. Marko spoke about legal challenges arising from snapping photos in public places. The audience, mainly comprised of […]
Legal 500 BDK Advokati has kept its place among Tier 1 firms in Commercial, Corporate and M&A, Competition and Real Estate (Serbia). We are also Tier 1 firm in Dispute Resolution, a practice that Legal 500 edition for Serbia ranks for the first time this year. The firm is also ranked in all other practices […]
On 10 January 2017 the European Commission issued its proposal of ePrivacy Regulation (“ePrivacy Regulation”), laying down rules for the protection of privacy and personal data within the context of electronic communications services. These are services provided via electronic communications networks and used to obtain internet access, to have interpersonal communications or to convey signals for the […]
On 21 December 2016, the Court of Justice of the European Union (“CJEU”) issued another remarkable ruling on data retention (Joined Cases C-203/15 (Tele2 Sverige AB v. Post- och telestyrelsen) and C-698/15 (Secretary of State for the Home Department v. Watson et al.)). Another, because data retention had already been a big topic in 2014, when […]
