CCA is the national regulator for the implementation of the Digital Markets Act
The Regulation on the implementation of the Regulation (EU) 2022/1925 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 14 September 2022 on contestable and fair markets in the digital…
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ArchiveCCA clears joint control over Solvis by Slovenian investment fund Advance Capital Partners and Stjepan Talan
21.06.2024
The Slovenian Advance Capital Partners (ACP) announced in mid-May that it has entered into a strategic partnership agreement with Stjepan Talan and Solvis. Under this agreement, a special investment fund…
OECD Competition Committee meeting in Paris
12.06.2024
At the meeting of the OECD Competition Committee held in Paris from 10 – 14 June 2024 the Croatian Competition Agency (CCA) was represented by the vice-president of the Competition…
CCA carries out surprise inspection of land surveyors
06.06.2024
In line with its powers under the Croatian Competition Act and after obtaining the injunction of the High Administrative Court of the Republic of Croatia the Croatian Competition Agency (CCA)…
Croatian Competition Agency and State Attorney’s Office sign cooperation agreement
10.06.2024
On 10 June 2024 Mirta Kapural, PhD, president of the Competition Council, and Ivan Turudić, Chief State Attorney of the Republic of Croatia, signed a cooperation agreement aimed at enhancing…
Amendments to the Act on the prohibition of unfair trading practices in the business-to-business food supply chain – seminar in the Croatian Chamber of the Economy
27.05.2024
The revised Act on the prohibition of unfair trading practices in the business-to-business food supply chain (UTPs Act) came into force in March this year. Members of the Croatian Chamber…
“Meet to Compete Competition Law and Policy Conference – Tools for the New Rules” “held in Opatija, 9-10 May 2024
10.05.2024
The International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) Croatia and the Croatian Chamber of the Economy, supported by the Croatian Competition Agency and the Croatian Employers’ Association, organized the “Meet to Compete…
Initiative
Report any form of distortion of market competition. Any legal or natural person who has a legal or economic interest in it, as well as a professional or economic interest association, a chamber of entrepreneurs, a consumer association, the Government of the Republic of Croatia, state bodies administrations and bodies of local and regional self-government units.
Cartel
A cartel is the most serious form of distortion of market competition. Discovering cartels and punishing the participants is one of the most important tasks of the Agency. However, given that prohibited agreements - cartels are usually secret agreements between entrepreneurs, their detection is an extremely difficult and complex task. For this reason, information about suspected cartel existence in certain markets is one of the key tools for sanctioning cartel participants.
Reporting bid-rigging in public procurement procedures
Competition rules also apply to public procurement procedures but only to undertakings that act as bidders in these procedures.
Public Procurement
See allPrevention of conflicts of interest and corruption in the field of public procurement
Pursuant to Article 80, Paragraph 2 of the Public Procurement Act (Official Gazette, No. 120/16), there are no economic entities with which the Croatian Competition Agency, as a public contracting authority, may not enter into public procurement contracts.