On May 29, 2017, the Commission for Protection of Competition has instituted proceedings for investigating competition infringement ex officio against Frozen Food Industry “Frikom” LLC Belgrade, on the grounds of determining the existence of abuse of dominance on the ice cream distribution and sale markets. On the following day, May 30, 2017, authorized officials of the Commission have carried out a dawn raid in the premises of “Frikom” company.

Namely, by implementing legal competences concerning the use of an instrument that is found to be extremely efficient in detecting various forms of competition infringements, authorized officials of the Commission have carried out a dawn raid in “Frikom” LLC, and on the occasion performed an inspection of business premises, i.e. data, documents and belongings in two locations in Belgrade, whereby the party concerned and proprietor of premises and belongings have been informed on the matter only when the dawn raid was taking place.

Dawn raid is an instrument available to the Commission for Protection of Competition, pursuant to Articles 52 through 55 of the Law on Protection of Competition with the objective of detecting and preventing acts or actions of undertakings that as their purpose or effect have or may have a significant restriction, distortion, or prevention of competition.

Considering that the proceedings is only recently instituted, and that dawn raid is just one of the manners in which the Commission can collect necessary evidence, all persons in possession of data, documentation or other relevant information that might contribute to the fact-finding in this proceedings are called upon to submit the said to the Commission for Protection of Competition to the address: 25 Savska St., Belgrade.