Limitation periods represent a legal safeguard for a person who has once broken the law in order not to be put at risk of sanctions and other legal liabilities for an indefinite amount of time. By contrast, public interest can sometimes require that a person who has committed a serious breach of...

Since the time when the first competition rules were adopted after the Velvet Revolution in early 1990s, Slovak competition law has undergone several changes. Three acts on economic competition were subsequently adopted (in 1991, 1994, 2001), each of them several times amended. Although Slovakia...

On-the-spot investigations (inspections, dawn raids) are now an indispensable tool in the portfolio of a competition authority's investigative powers. They constitute a very efficient method of seizing documents and accumulating information of an undertaking regarding its alleged anticompetitive...

In 2006, the Antimonopoly Office of the Slovak Republic (hereafter, AMO) decided its first bid-rigging case concerning a cartel between six construction companies. According to the cartel decision, the six construction companies infringed the Act on the Protection of Competition as well as...