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...

The paper sets the reform of the Clean Vehicles Directive in the broader context of the European environmental policies and inclusion of these horizontal policies into public procurement rules. The analysis of the effectiveness of that directive is provided from the overall European point of...

The EU environmental policy is challenged by current international development (withdrawal of the US from the Paris climate accord, melting of the Arctic, changes in climate, extreme weather events), the sustainable development policy agenda and also by public pressure. The interest of the...

According to the new European Union’ Public procurement legislation (hereinafter 2014 PP Directives), the award of public contracts by or on behalf public authority has to comply with the principles of the Functioning of the European Union, and in particular the free movement of goods, freedom...

In the current globalised business world, a trade is often used as a tool to export Human Rights Protection concept (or the part of it) even to the countries, which do not recognise them. Comprehensive trade agreements between states or transnational corporations, which are relevant global...

The article deals with the relevant feature of the concept of undertaking in European competition law, particularly its definition as an economic unit and possible transplantation of this concept into bankruptcy law. The main features of this concept are related to parent liability and economic...

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...

The paper will analyse the position of local self-government (i.e. municipalities and self-governing regions) in the framework of enforcement of internal market, its impact and effectiveness. The analysis of the legal framework of Slovakia has shown, that there are three ways in which the...