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Antimonopoly Office of the Slovak Republic Annual Report 2001
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The web site www.antimon.gov.sk provides the full wording of Act No. 136/2001 Coll. on Protection of
Competition and on Amendment of Act of the Slovak National Council No. 347/1990 Coll. on
Organisation of Ministries and Other Central State Administrative Bodies of the Slovak Republic as
amended and also the Notice No. 167 of the Antimonopoly Office of the Slovak Republic of March 21,
2002, which sets out details on calculation of turnover, the Notice No. 168 of the Antimonopoly Office
of the Slovak Republic of March 21, 2002, which sets out details on the conditions of notification of
concentration and also all valid decisions of the Office after January 1, 1999 in their complete wording,
furthermore all information on all initiated administrative proceedings of the Office, on first-instance
decisions, on appeals submitted against first instance decision, on second instance decisions and lot
of other current information on the Office and its activities.
Twice a month the Office publishes information on initiated administrative proceedings, on issued
decisions, on appeals submitted against decisions of the Office and some other information in daily
paper Hospodárske noviny in column “The Antimonopoly Office of the Slovak Republic informs”.
Purpose of this column is to inform the entrepreneurs on proceedings initiated in the Office and thus
allow them to express or introduce possible objections to the administrative proceedings, primarily in
the area of concentrations.
Pursuant to the article 24 of the Act No. 136/2001 Coll. is the Office obliged to publish valid decisions
of the Office, notifications of concentrations, warnings directed to the state administrative authorities
and municipalities, if they restrict competition in some way and information on initiated proceedings in
all other matters coming out from the Act.
The Office fulfils this obligation by publishing the mentioned information in Obchodný vestník, on web
site of the Office and by opening the valid decisions of the Office in the Office’s library.
The Act No. 211/2000 Coll. on Free Access to Information is in force from January 1, 2001. Pursuant
to this Act is each natural and legal person allowed to get information, which the relevant state
authority has at its disposal. This possibility has been used really actively, in the course of 2001 the
Office received 57 requests from the entrepreneurs, non-governmental organizations, civic
associations and citizens – primarily students of law and economics.
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