Competition Newsletter: December 2021

Antitrust

Serbian NCA publishes guidelines on competition compliance programs

The Serbian NCA has published its guidelines on competition compliance programs. The NCA noted that competition infringements are often a result of a lack of understanding or knowledge of undertakings, and the guidelines are to assist undertaking in adopting their individual compliance programs.

Merger control in Serbia: What are the trends?

What have been the merger control trends in Serbia in the last three years?

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State aid

Subsidies to producer of parts for car industry cleared

Serbia's state aid authority, the Commission for State Aid Control, has cleared state support to Serbian company United Alloy-Tech Europe doo, for a planned plant for producing parts for the car industry. The recipient, who is part of Minth Group, is set to receive approx. EUR 6.4 million from the Serbian state.

Montenegrin Competition Act amended

The Montenegrin parliament has amended the country's main piece of competition legislation - the Law on Protection of Competition of 2012. The amendments relate to the organization of the country's competition authority, the Agency for Protection of Competition, including the procedure for appointing the head of the authority.

Merger control

Five new merger decisions

. During December, the Montenegrin NCA published five new merger decisions:

• TB Digital Services GmbH (Germany) - Loom Technologies GmbH (Germany)
• KONZUM plus d.o.o. (Croatia) - MIRACOLO TRGOVINA d.o.o. (Croatia)
• Mutares SE & Co. KGaA (Germany) - Toshiba Transmission and Distribution Europe S.p.A. (Italy)
• Erste Bank a.d. (Montenegro) - S-Leasing d.o.o. (Serbia)
• Helios d.o.o. (Slovenia) - Gudmark Group d.o.o. (Serbia) [assets]

Merger control

A concentration on the market for computer programming cleared

The Bosnian NCA has cleared a transaction whereby Asecco SEE d.o.o. (Bosnia and Herzegovina) is acquiring control over another Bosnian company, BS Telecom Solution d.o.o. The relevant market was for computer programming in Bosnia and Herzegovina.

Merger control

Six new merger notifications

During December, the North Macedonian NCA announced the receipt of six new merger notifications:

• Infinum d.o.o. (Croatia) - ZP Development d.o.o. (North Macedonia)
• MK Land SPV d.o.o. (Serbia) - DOO Mirotin Vrbas (Serbia)
• Bulgarian Telecommunications Company EAD (Bulgaria) - Telnet OOD (Bulgaria)
• Slovenia Broadband Sarl (Luxembourg) - Telelink Business Services Group AD (Bulgaria)
• Link Mobility Group AS (Norway) - Matelab Srl (Italy)
• DuPont De Nemours Inc. (USA) - Rogers Corporation (USA)