In Ordem dos Técnicos Oficiais de Contas v Autoridade da Concorrência(judgment of 28 February 2013), the Court of Justice of the European Union weighed in on the issue whether a regulatory activity of a statutory professional association was an economic activity subject to assessment under competition law or an exercise of public authority outside the reach […]
The new Law on Deadlines for the Settlement of Monetary Obligations in Commercial Transactions becomes applicable on March 31, 2013. It significantly restricts the autonomy of undertakings to freely regulate their commercial relationships. BDK Senior Associate Ana Jankov describes how the law will affect domestic commercial contracts between companies as well as between companies on […]
V Belgrade arbitration conference, organized by the University of Belgrade, Faculty of Law, featured two panels, on due process and efficiency, chaired by Prof. Klaus Peter Berger, and the other on the taking of evidence in international commercial arbitration, chaired by Prof. Loukas Mistelis. BDK partner Tijana Kojović spoke on the topic of Witness Preparation […]
The 2013 edition of prestigious Chambers Global ranks BDK Advokati/Attorneys at Law in Band 1 of Serbian law firms. BDK Montenegrin practice has also received excellent reviews. Tijana Kojović maintains her ranking in Band 1 of Serbian lawyers, while Dragoljub Cibulić has debuted on the ladder following stellar client feedback for his Montenegrin work. Chambers […]
On 7th February 2013, the Serbian Ministry of Finance and Economy and the Serbian Investment and Export Promotion Agency published a discussion paper on reforms aimed at furthering the development of the IT sector in Serbia (“Discussion Paper”). The proposed reforms are rather comprehensive and include startup grants, support to business incubators for IT companies, tax incentives, reduction […]
This post examines whether and to what extent competition rules in Serbia and Bosnia and Herzegovina apply to public authorities when they prescribe regulations that affect or may affect competition in a particular market. In the EU, regulatory activity is beyond the realm of competition law. The relevant competition law provisions of the Treaty on the […]
On 20 February 2013, in Caventa AG v. OHIM, the Fifth Chamber of the General Court of the European Union upheld the decision of OHIM’s Board of Appeal to deny registration as a Community mark of the sign B BERG. The applicant, Caventa AG (Switzerland) initially sought registration of the mark for clothing, footwear, and headgear, […]
The two highest judicial institutions in Europe – European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) and Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) – recently issued judgments concerning the relationship between intellectual property and human rights. Jurisprudence of the two courts on this issue is relatively scarce, so the two recent additions are worth examining […]
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I already wrote in this blog about the January 2012 decision of the Serbian Commission for Protection of Competition blocking Sunoko’s takeover of Hellenic Sugar and the subsequent judgment of the Administrative Court quashing the Commission’s decision on procedural grounds. The Commission prohibited the proposed concentration that would have increased Sunoko’s market share from 50% to approximately 80%. Even though […]
