President of the Commission for Protection of Competition Dr. Miloje Obradović received a visit today from President of the Competition Council of Bosnia and Herzegovina Ivo Jerkić.

Topics of discussions related to the exchange of experiences from the area of regulatory framework and implementation of competition policy, in addition to the advancement of further cooperation between two institutions through the means of exchanges of experts, study visits, organization of joint seminars and workshops, as well as by drafting joint economic and legal analyses.

Also, the two parties discussed the initiative for establishing the Western Balkans Competition Forum and its importance for further advancement of regional cooperation between competition authorities. Collocutors agreed on the Forum’s advancement of cooperation between national authorities of the Western Balkan countries, which will considerably facilitate their future operations, convergence of practices and procedures, but also enable improvement of institutional and regulatory competition policy frameworks in the region.

The meeting was also attended by members of the BiH Competition Council – Arijana Regoda Dražić and Nebojša Popić, as well as members of the Commission’s Council – Mirjana Vukašinović, Čedomir Radojčić, Marko Obradović and Dr. Veljko Milutinović.

The Commission for Protection of Competition of the Republic of Serbia and the Competition Council of Bosnia and Herzegovina have signed the Memorandum of Mutual Understanding and Cooperation in the field of competition policy and law in 2009.