The Commission for Protection of Competition has conducted a dawn raid on business premises of companies SCLift2018 and Mikrolift in Babušnica.

The dawn raid was undertaken as part of antitrust investigations launched ex officio against said parties on concerns that the parties have been involved in bid rigging during a public procurement of lift repair services for the General Hospital Pirot. This act could represent a form of restrictive agreement under Article 10 of the Law on Protection of Competition.

The unannounced inspection of business premises, business files, evidence, documents and belongings was conducted with the assistance of the Police Force officers on reasonable grounds to believe that there is a risk of removal or alteration of evidence.

All persons in possession of the facts, documents or other relevant information that could contribute to the accurate fact-finding in this proceeding are invited to submit said evidence to the following address: Commission for Protection of Competition, 25/IV Savska St., Belgrade.

The Commission for Protection of Competition hereby publishes the Notice of the Commitment Proposal, pursuant to Article 58 of the Law on Protection of Competition, which company EPS Distribucija d.o.o. Beograd is voluntarily willing to undertake in order to remove potential infringements of competition, with a call to all interested parties to submit written objections, positions and opinions on the proposed commitments.

The Commission for Protection of Competition has opened a special telephone hotline and email address for all parties in possession of information and other available facts of alleged instances of infringement of competition occurring on individual markets in the Republic of Serbia.

Information on all details concerning the possibility and means of submission of initiatives for the opening of antitrust investigations can be obtained via email address inicijativa@kzk.gov.rs or by calling our helpdesk at 011 38 11 958
.
Given that the Commission, pursuant to Article 35 of the Law on Protection of Competition, may also open an antitrust investigation procedure based on the received initiatives, we are hereby inviting and encouraging all parties in possession of information or facts of the existence of any kind of breach of competition, to contact the Commission and submit an initiative for the opening of antitrust proceedings before the Commission. The initiatives will be reviewed and handled by the Commission officials. The complainants will be informed of the outcome of the related initiative immediately following its handling. In all cases where antitrust proceedings based on submitted initiatives are launched by the Commission, the complainants are also entitled to be informed about the course of the investigation procedure.

IT IS IMPORTANT TO KNOW that the complainants do not have the status of a party in ex officio proceedings initiated on their initiative, but that their identity, as well as information considered to be a trade secret or other business sensitive data, may be protected pursuant to Article 45 of the Law on Protection of Competition.