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Antimonopoly Office of the Slovak Republic Annual Report 2001
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Within the Negotiation position to the Chapter No. 6 - The Competition the Antimonopoly Office of the
Slovak Republic undertook not to require any exemptions, or transitional periods in connection with
transposition and implementation of competition acquis communautaire. In the course of 2001 the
Office has, regarding the additional questions of EC, continuously provided more detailed information
on updating of exclusive and sole rights provided to individual subjects, on abolishing the state
monopolies of commercial nature and on description of valid license system in the Slovak Republic. In
connection with this the indicative plan has been adopted in order to accept EU secondary legislation,
related to block exemptions of agreements restricting competition from legal prohibition and also
related to the simplified proceedings on assessment of some concentrations. On request of EC the
detailed structural review of decisions of the Office issued in the course of 2000 has been developed
and sent as a basis for assessing the implementation of the Act on Protection of Competition and
readiness of the Slovak Republic in this area. It was not possible to prelusively conclude chapter The
Competition in 2001 as it is necessary to adopt certain measures regarding the state aid issue.
WTO
Slovak Republic is a member of WTO from 1995. The Antimonopoly Office of the Slovak Republic
participates in the meetings of working group for interaction between trade and competition. This
working group has the goal to deal with the problems of individual member countries arising from
reciprocal interaction and relation between trade and competition.
OECD
Competition Committee in OECD is an essential international forum for regular exchange of opinions
and positions on important aspects of competition protection and support policy. Competition
Committee connects main representants of world institutions in competition area, co-ordinates creation
of analytic studies and recommendations, helps individual member countries to strengthen their
competition policy and it is an important resource of convenient knowledge. Committee comprises from
several working groups. The Antimonopoly Office of the Slovak Republic can present its own
experiences from its operation in scope of these groups and can participate in creation of principles of
competition protection from the global point of view.
ICN
International Competition Network has been established in October 2001 in New York. Its purpose is to
coordinate and improve the enforcement of rules of the competition to the benefit of consumers
worldwide.
ICN will concentrate on improvement of worldwide cooperation in the competition area and on
advocacy of competition principles. Slovak Republic through the Antimonopoly Office of the Slovak
Republic became a member of ICN at the end of 2001.
FOREIGN PROJECTS
NERA
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