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Antimonopoly Office of the Slovak Republic Annual Report 2001
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Within the privatisation process, the Office emitted its opinions on privatisation of individual state
undertakings. Through its standpoints the Office warned of possible anti-competition effects that the
privatisation could have given rise to. The Office also monitored and commented on the privatisation
methods whenever they were found discriminatory or created unequal conditions for different parties
interested in the privatisation. In 2001 the Office issued 21 standpoints on privatisation projects, mainly
in the area of building, water industry, transport and agriculture.
Standpoints on dumping, protection against the excessive import and subsidized import
Assessing dumping the Ministry of Finance of the Slovak Republic asks the Office for an opinion on
competition restriction pursuant to the Act on Protection Against Dumping in Import of Goods. Ministry
of Economy asks for a standpoint of a similar nature in order to assess the excessive import pursuant
to the Act on Protective Measures in Import and in order to assess the subsidized import pursuant to
the Act on Subsidies and on Compensatory Measures. As the trade policy and competition are
mutually connected, the adoption or non-adoption of the mentioned measures in the area of
antidumping, protection against excessive import and in subsidized import may restrict competition.
The role of the Office is to warn of these anticompetitive impacts in its standpoints.
Working commissions
Employees of the Office are members of various working commissions, funds, councils constituted by
other state administrative bodies. The Office has its representants for example in the price
commission of Ministry of Economy of the Slovak Republic, dealing with fixing the regulated gas price,
in a state fund of market regulation, in the council for consumer’s policy at the Ministry of Economy of
the Slovak Republic, in the permanent working commission for price regulation of products in the area
of healthcare. Their role is the competition rules and principles advocacy in the given area and for the
given issues.
INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION
EU and process of integration
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