Based on the Decision of the Council of the Commission for Protection of Competition, an inquiry on competition related conditions on aftermarkets has been conducted. The inquiry encompassed aftersales services, guarantees, turnover and use of spare parts for motor vehicles and top selling home appliances – refrigerators and washing machines.

Apart from comprehensive conditions inquiry, specific conclusions are established in addition to the list of recommendations aimed at improving legitimate and fair market operations of all undertakings, as well as facilitating consumers and their organizations in perceiving products running costs.
The added intent of this inquiry, and in particular of its conclusions and recommendations, is to point the competent state institutions to the conditions on inquired markets, whilst to facilitate the proactive operating of the Commission aimed at deterring undertakings from competition infringement related acting.


The results of conducted researches and associated established conclusions, enabled adopting a number of positions that might serve the Commission for Protection of Competition and other competent authorities of the Republic of Serbia, as well as consumer associations, in planning, adopting and implementing measures and actions from their field of competence.

One of provided recommendations is to initiate a research on motor vehicle related prices and average running and servicing costs, as well as to publish and promote them in order to facilitate motor vehicle buyers’ consideration of total costs taken when purchasing motor vehicles and received product related value-to-price. The estimate of the research team is that such inquiry would contribute to the more realistic buyers’ comprehension of the scope of costs they endure when buying and servicing and repairing motor vehicles, which would contribute the intensifying competition on both basic products market and aftermarkets.


The results of aforesaid inquiry will be used in the course of preparing the Draft Regulation on conditions for group exemption of agreements in the motor vehicle sector, transporting the EU Commission Regulation no. 461/2010 into our legislative system.
The project is conducted in cooperation with the Public Policy Secretariat of the Republic of Serbia with financial and technical support from the PERFORM Project of the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation. As per Project’s ToR prepared by the Commission as contracting authority of the inquiry, the research was conducted by the Institute of Economic Sciences, as the Project research partner.

All undertakings and other expert community are hereby invited to submit their comments as per the Report, no later than December 31, 2016, to email address: office.kzk@kzk.gov.rs, referencing: Comment on the aftermarkets sector inquiry.

President of the Commission for Protection of Competition, Miloje Obradović, PhD, held an opening speech at the jubilee, tenth in a row, “Focus on Competition” conference traditionally organized by the Karanović & Nikolić Law Office and Friedrich Naumann Foundation for Freedom from Germany.

Dr Obradović pointed out, among other things, that full implementation of the current Law on Protection of Competition in previous period has confirmed that there is a room for normative improvements. This is of a particular significance keeping in mind the enactment of the new Law on Administrative Procedure whose full implementation is foreseen for the middle of next year, and which will hold the position of a system, i.e. fundamental law.

The Commission President emphasized that the favored solution while awaiting the implementation of the new Law on Administrative Procedure is to enhance judges’ education, the goal of which being the improvement of judicial competition infringement processing capacities. He also reminded of the fact stated in the European Commission Report on Serbia’s progress related to the underlined importance and necessity to strengthen judicial capacities to handle complex competition infringement cases.
This year’s “Focus on Competition” conference presentations and discussions were focused on the competition legislative area, Austrian competition watchdog’s practice and related competition legislative area, in addition to the EU legislation related influence on candidate countries in the area of competition legislation.

One of the panelists also was Siniša Milošević, PhD, Head of Department for Economic Inquiries in the Commission for Protection of Competition, who addressed the attendees by presenting economic inquiry practices executed in the Commission’s operations and their related importance on more efficient work of the institution.

Following the invitation of the Commission President, Miloje Obradović, PhD, Mr. Andrej Matvoz, acting Director of the Slovenian Competition Protection Agency, visited the Commission for Protection of Competition.

This was an opportunity for exchange of experiences in the field of competition policy and legal framework implementation, as well as for improvement of future cooperation, the good foundation being already existing Agreement on Cooperation between those two institutions.

President Obradović introduced the guest from Slovenia on Commission’s activities in the field of competition policy implementation, further to those performed within the EU accession process efforts made by Serbia.
In the course of conversation, further cooperation phases have been agreed, enabling the competition policy implementation in this part of Europe to be more efficient, aside of bringing the Serbian national competition authority closer to the European standards in the field of competition regulation and policy, which represent an important segment of the negotiating process for accession to full membership in the European Union.

The Anti-Corruption Agency, Commission for Protection of Competition and Republic Commission for Protection of Rights in Public Procurement Procedures have signed the Agreement on cooperation. The Agreement is signed by Tatjana Babić, the Agency Director, Miloje Obradović, PhD, the Commission President, and Hana Hukić, the Republic Commission President.


The Agreement is signed on the sidelines of a workshop on public procurements in the light of issues regarding the fight against corruption and protection of competition, held from 8-9, November in Aranđelovac, organized by the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe.

This represents the expression of readiness for cooperation aimed at the protection of public interest, reduction of corruption-related risks and strengthening of institutional integrities.
The workshop analyzed issues related to the protection of rights in public procurement procedures, determination of conflict of interests with reference to the conflict of interests in public procurements, public procurements and competition policy, and setting of a joint cooperation areas in the context of the Public Procurement Law, Law on the Anti-Corruption Agency and Law on Protection of Competition. (Photo:OSCE/Milan Obradović)

Improvement of cooperation between competition authorities of Montenegro, Serbia, Macedonia and Bosnia and Herzegovina was the key topic discussed by the said institution representatives at the TAIEX Regional Workshop held in Podgorica, in addition to the participation of a large number of experts who shared their experiences with event participants.

The workshop attendees on behalf of the Commission for Protection of Competition were Ms. Gordana Bulatović, Chief of Staff of the President of the CPC, Ms. Ivana Macanković, Advisor at the Department for Investigation of Concentration, and Ms. Olivera Bergam, Adviser at the Department for Competition Infringement.

The TAIEX Regional Workshop was organized as a part of European Commission project for strengthening Western Balkan countries’ institutional capacities. The co-organizer of the Workshop was the Agency for Protection of Competition of Montenegro.

The event was opened by the Director of the Agency for Protection of Competition of Montenegro, Mr. Miodrag Vujović, who noted that connection and interdependence of our markets clearly point to the necessity of a harmonized approach to competition policy, foremost for the investors’ sense of protection from acts that might jeopardize equality of all undertakings.

Experts presenting the EU member countries experiences in similar situations, contributed to the overall success of this Workshop, and foremost: Austrian experiences on German-speaking markets (Natalie Harsdorf Enderndorf, Austrian Federal Competition Authority), Lithuanian experiences in Baltic countries (Daumantas Grikinis, Competition Council of the Republic of Lithuania), Slovak experiences in the Slovak-Czech region (Michaela Nosa, Antimonopoly Office of the Slovak Republic), and Slovenian experiences in the Western Balkan region (Marko Stoilvoski, Slovenian Competition Protection Agency). Petra Krenz from EC Directorate-General for Competition spoke on advantages gained from functioning of the European Network for Competition. She suggested regional competition authorities to consider forming a regional center for competition, whose goal would be more efficient operating of each institution individually, but also creating interactions between expert services from Western Balkan regional competition authorities, which would improve the quality and efficiency in securing equal conditions in all markets covered by those bodies.

The President of the Commission for Protection of Competition, Miloje Obradović, PhD, met with the delegation of the Embassy of Japan, headed by the First Secretary at the Embassy, Mr. Kanno Yoshifumi.

President Obradović introduced collocutors with current issues related to competition policy, and Commission’s activities within the EU accession process.

Also, the topic of conversation was placed on the analysis of the state of competition and competition-related protection measures in Japan and Serbia, possibilities of bilateral cooperation and joint activities through operating in international organizations dealing with the competition law and policy, as well as the support of further projects of Japan in which the Commission for Protection of Competition takes active involvement.

The President of the Commission expressed gratitude to the Japanese officials for support and assistance to Commission’s operating provided so far, implemented via projects for strengthening capacities of the Commission for Protection of Competition.

The Secretary General of the Commission for Protection of Competition, Dragan Penezić, PhD, and Ms. Nina Vasić, Adviser at the Department for International and Domestic Cooperation of the Commission for Protection of Competition, also attended the meeting.

Siniša Milošević, PhD, Chief Economist of the Commission for Protection of Competition, held a lecture for students of the Faculty of Economics in Belgrade. During the lecture, Dr Milošević introduced students with the Commission for Protection of Competition’s mandate, as well as the legal framework based on which the competition protection policy in Serbia is conducted.

During the lecture, Dr Milošević presented students with several international cases of detecting competition infringement and introduced them with the basis of competition protection policy.

President of the Commission for Protection of Competition, Miloje Obradović, PhD, and Head of the Department for Economic Analysis, Siniša Milošević, PhD, attended the American Chamber of Commerce formal celebration of 15 years of operations in Serbia.

The event gathered representatives of member companies, state institutions, corps diplomatique, the media and other significant partners who have by attending supported the continuous work of the AmCham in promoting competition, transparency and free entrepreneurship as doing business key values.

The Commission for Protection of Competition supports operations of all business associations in Serbia and encourages their education-related efforts and operations that contribute creating equal business conditions on the market of our country.

President of the Commission for Protection of Competition, Miloje Obradović, PhD, met with newly appointed Head of Economic Affairs Section of the USA Embassy to Serbia, Ms. Carolina Hidea, and her team.

President Obradović introduced collocutors to current issues from the filed of competition policy and Commission’s activities related to EU accession process.

The topic of conversation also included options for further strengthening of expert and educational support via competition policy related projects, organization of seminars, visiting lecturers, conferences, joint study programs on competition policy, etc.

Present at the meeting were Dragan Penezić, PhD, Secretary General of the Commission for Protetion of Competition, and Ms. Nina Vasić, Adviser at the Department for International and National Cooperation of the Commission for Protection of Competition.