Representatives of the Commission for Protection of Competition – Marina Joksimović, Senior Advisor in the Department for Competition Infringement, Miroslava Đošić, Senior Advisor in the Department for Legal Affairs and Jelena Grahovac, Senior Advisor in the Department for Economic Inquiries, concluded the two day official visit to the Austrian Federal Competition Authority (Die Bundeswettbewerbsbehörde, BWB).

The visit is organized based on the arrangement for cooperation of previous bilateral meeting held between the Commission President, Miloje Obradović, PhD, and Director General of the Austrian Federal Competition Authority, Theodor Thanner, PhD, with the goal of implementing training courses in the field of conducting dawn raids.
During the visit, series of meetings were organized with the Austrian Federal Competition Authority representatives, exchanging experiences in the domain of conducting dawn raids as one of the most important “tools” for gathering evidence in the cartel detecting cases.

In addition to discussing legal issues from the field of conducting investigations, the focus was placed on experiences arising from the leniency program related implementation, forensic tools used in the fieldwork and when presenting evidence for the courts, as well as current topics from the sector inquiries implementation area in which Austrian and Serbian competition authorities are currently involved.

The visit is evaluated as an exceptional form of bilateral cooperation between institutions and very useful for targeted improvement of professional skills of employees working in the Commission for Protection of Competition of the Republic of Serbia.
The Serbian Commission delegation was met by the Director General, Deputy Head and representatives from investigation, forensic and economy sectors.