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Antimonopoly Office of the Slovak Republic Annual Report 2001
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The project organized by National Economics Research Associates (NERA) in partnership with the
Antimonopoly Office of the Slovak Republic has been approved in November 2000. British Know How
Fund has participated on financial aspect of realization of this project. Purpose of the project was to
provide counselling and expert’s advisory in technical competition questions and issues, dealing with
the competition, institutional developing support and limited number of study stays.
MATRA
The pre-accession project MATRA, realizing by Dutch institution Senter International in the name of
Dutch Ministry of Economy and Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs has been approved in September
2001. Purpose of the project is to increase practical knowledge in the area of competition legislation, to
assure unified interpretation and implementation of competition law within the Office and to develop
communication strategy to help the Office clearly define its position as a competition authority in its
relation to expert and laic public.
APS – PHARE
In the year 2001 the Office cooperated with APS consortium in PHARE project “Legal Advice on
Approximation of legislation focused on the short-term and medium-term priorities of the Accession
Partnership”. EC have started this project with purpose to fulfil its obligations to provide technical help
for the Slovak Republic in approximation process. Task of APS consortium was to provide technical
help to Slovak state authorities in approximation, to control compatibility of Slovak drafts of acts with
EC law with interest to fulfil National Programme for acquis communautaire acceptance and Accession
Partnership, to assure materials and data, to supervise the preparation of correspondence tables and
to provide legal documentation. APS consortium has assigned legal counselling for the Antimonopoly
Office of the Slovak Republic in the year 2001, mainly in order to prepare the draft of law adjusting the
so-called block exemptions.
TRANSPARENCY OF THE ACTIVITY OF THE OFFICE
The Office uses many possibilities to increase transparency of the Office’s activity and to improve
informing of public.
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