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Arbitrability of Anti-competitive Agreements in the Law of the European Union
Pavelka, Tomáš ; Svoboda, Pavel (referee) ; Šmejkal, Václav (referee)
In the past, an Irish barrister and arbitrator James Bridgeman remarked that the arbitration of competition law is a meeting of two black arts. This perception has not changed since and yet, the adjudication of anti-competitive agreements in arbitration is an everyday event of real life. This thesis, after a brief summary of history of arbitrability of competition law, picks specific issues closely tied to current practical problems that arbitrators must face. First, whether arbitrators should consider themselves as being under obligation to raise competition issues of their own motion (ex officio) during arbitration proceedings, secondly, whether national courts of the EU Member States must automatically set arbitral awards in breach of competition rules aside and thirdly, whether arbitrators are in a good position to address complex antitrust questions properly and whether they can receive some help from the official competition authorities entrusted with primary enforcement of antitrust law. Mainly EU law will be covered here albeit with few brief excursions into particular problems of national law of the Czech Republic, to which this thesis endorses relevant solutions.
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Protection of economic competition - agreements intervening in competition
Mráček, Michael ; Horáček, Vít (advisor) ; Horáček, Tomáš (referee)
The objective of this thesis is to evaluate and describe Czech legislation regarding agreements intervening in the economic competition, namely with the focus on their actual form, specifics, characteristics and basic essentials, and to evaluate their correctness and business impacts, taking into account legislation and case law of the European Union. The purpose of the research is primarily to outline the basic elements of forms of prohibited agreements, highlight deficiencies of legislation related to them, and to argue findings arising from the literature and case law. The thesis is based on both Czech and European literature and judicature. The thesis is divided into six chapters which are complemented by the Introduction and the Conclusion. The First Chapter compares legislation of the Czech Republic and the European Union, while the attention is devoted in particular to the influence of European legislation and judicature on the development of Czech law and decision-making practice. It also focuses on certain differences and possibilities of their removal and overcoming. The Second Chapter forms the core of the thesis and also describes the core law governing the cartels when it closely examines every single part of the state of facts of prohibited agreements. This part provides a...
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Chinese Antimonopoly Law in the Light of Competition Law of the European Union : Comparative Perspective
Dufková, Barbara ; Šmejkal, Václav (advisor) ; Tomášek, Michal (referee)
Chinese Antimonopoly Law in the Light of Competition Law of the European Union: Comparative Perspective. The subject of the thesis is the comparative analysis of Chinese antimonopoly law and competition law of the EU. The thesis aims to identify the traces of the competition law of the EU in Chinese antimonopoly law as well as analyze transplanted legal concepts, in order to determine, whether these concepts are endowed with the same normative reach. The first part of the thesis provides brief introduction into the history of antimonopoly law in PRC. Following chapters analyze relevant parts of AML and implementing regulation, which are after short description of the corresponding arrangement in European law compared with the latter. General principles and definitions, which are applicable in all pillars of competition law, are dealt with in the first place. Further the analysis of the agreements restricting competition, abuse of dominance, as well as mergers of undertakings follows. With regard to the importance of effective application of antimonopoly law in practice, a short chapter is also devoted to the role of courts in implementation of antimonopoly law in PRC. The closing part sums up the pillars of competition law, which have been built on the model of the competition law of the EU and...
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Arbitrability of Anti-competitive Agreements in the Law of the European Union
Pavelka, Tomáš ; Svoboda, Pavel (referee) ; Šmejkal, Václav (referee)
In the past, an Irish barrister and arbitrator James Bridgeman remarked that the arbitration of competition law is a meeting of two black arts. This perception has not changed since and yet, the adjudication of anti-competitive agreements in arbitration is an everyday event of real life. This thesis, after a brief summary of history of arbitrability of competition law, picks specific issues closely tied to current practical problems that arbitrators must face. First, whether arbitrators should consider themselves as being under obligation to raise competition issues of their own motion (ex officio) during arbitration proceedings, secondly, whether national courts of the EU Member States must automatically set arbitral awards in breach of competition rules aside and thirdly, whether arbitrators are in a good position to address complex antitrust questions properly and whether they can receive some help from the official competition authorities entrusted with primary enforcement of antitrust law. Mainly EU law will be covered here albeit with few brief excursions into particular problems of national law of the Czech Republic, to which this thesis endorses relevant solutions.
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Arbitrability of anti-competitive agreements in the law of the European Union
Pavelka, Tomáš ; Svoboda, Pavel (advisor) ; Šmejkal, Václav (referee)
In the past, an Irish barrister and arbitrator James Bridgeman remarked that the arbitration of competition law is a meeting of two black arts. This perception has not changed since and yet, the adjudication of anti-competitive agreements in arbitration is an everyday event of real life. This thesis, after a brief summary of history of arbitrability of competition law, picks specific issues closely tied to current practical problems that arbitrators must face. First, whether arbitrators should consider themselves as being under obligation to raise competition issues of their own motion (ex officio) during arbitration proceedings, secondly, whether national courts of the EU Member States must automatically set arbitral awards in breach of competition rules aside and thirdly, whether arbitrators are in a good position to address complex antitrust questions properly and whether they can receive some help from the official competition authorities entrusted with primary enforcement of antitrust law. Mainly EU law will be covered here albeit with few brief excursions into particular problems of national law of the Czech Republic, to which this thesis endorses relevant solutions.
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Protection of business competition - agreements interfering with competition
Krabec, Martin ; Horáček, Vít (advisor) ; Čech, Petr (referee)
Protection of business competition - agreements interfering with competition Agreements interfering with competition are a significant threat to proper functioning of the competition. Leniency programmes are a powerful tool for the purpose of detection and termination of cartels. This thesis focuses mainly on the regulation contained in the Czech national law. The Community law can not be ignored though as the national law is closely connected therewith. The first part of this thesis contains mainly a basic definition of agreements interfering with competition, their division according to their content as well as division to horizontal and vertical agreements which is important to assess agreements with an insignificant impact on the competition. When assessing the influence of an agreement it is also necessary to take legal and block exemptions into account. The most important cartel assessed by the Office for the Protection of Competition so far is an agreement on the gas insulated switchgear market. For this agreement having a form of bid rigging the Office imposed the highest fine in its history. But this case also demonstrates a frequent problem of significant delays in the court proceedings, which are often initiated by legal actions of undertakings against decisions of the Office for the...
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Competition Law in Russian Federation
Levý, Jan ; Boháček, Martin (advisor) ; Vozáb, Jakub (referee)
The thesis deals with competition law (law on unlawful restriction of competition as well as unfair competition) in Russian Federation, it particularly compares Russian and Czech law. Its content is first a brief introduction to Russian competition law, sources of law etc. Next chapters are devoted to basic concepts of this branch of law. Law about abuse of dominant position, cartels, control of mergers, and unfair competition has been analysed. The last chapter deals with the supervision in the disucussed area.
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Comparison of English and Australian cartel law
Šach, Petr ; Boháček, Martin (advisor) ; Vozáb, Jakub (referee)
Diplomová práce se zaměřuje na kartelové právo formou srovnání australské a české úpravy. Přibližuje základní principy australského kartelového práva, obsahuje výklad nejdůležitějsích pojmů - relevantní trh, tržní síla a soutěžitel - dle australské i české úpravy. Pojednává o institucionálním rámci kartelového práva z pohledu obou úprav a přibližuje rozdíly regulace dohod narušujících soutěž, zneužití dominantního postavení a spojování soutěžitelů.
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