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...