Naslov
Control of mergers in grocery retail market in Croatia

Autori
Pecotić Kaufman, Jasminka

Vrsta, podvrsta i kategorija rada
Radovi u zbornicima skupova, cjeloviti rad (in extenso), znanstveni

Izvornik
Trgovina kao pokretač razvoja srednje i jugoistočne Europe / Distributive trade as SEE and CEE development driver Zbornik međunarodnog znanstvenog skupa, Ekonomski fakultet Zagreb, 16.11.2011. / Proceedings of the International scientific conference, Faculty of Economics and Business Zagreb, Croatia, 16th November 2011 / Knego, Nikola ; Renko, Sanda ; Knežević, Blaženka - Zagreb : Ekonomski fakultet Sveučilišta u Zagrebu, 2011

ISBN
978-953-6025-45-9

Skup
Trgovina kao pokretač razvoja srednje i jugoistočne Europe / Distributive trade as SEE and CEE development driver

Mjesto i datum
Zagreb, Hrvatska, 16.11.2011

Vrsta sudjelovanja
Predavanje

Vrsta recenzije
Domaća recenzija

Ključne riječi
grocery; retail; competition law; relevant market; merger control

Sažetak
Merger control in grocery retail market in Croatia has seen an unprecedented flurry of cases since 2004 with the largest competitor on the market spreading to various local markets where smaller competitors had their strongholds. Apart from horizontal mergers that had to be scrutinised in a number of local markets, a vertical integration took place which also asked for a close and careful inspection. In the merger control domain this wave of mergers has been perhaps the biggest challenge for the Croatian competition authority since its inception in 1997. In the face of the growing market concentration the authority saw fit to shift from initially providing green light to notified grocery retail mergers to subsequently addressing serious competition concerns by ordering a number of structural and behavioural remedies in specific cases. In this process the authority relied heavily on the merger practice of the European Commission in particular as regards defining relevant product and geographic markets. This paper aims to discuss criteria used to evaluate grocery retail mergers in Croatia from the comparative point of view, especially taking into account EU merger control rules and practice, in order to assess whether a competition level playing field has been created on the basis of application of EU rules by the national competition authority.

Izvorni jezik
Engleski

Znanstvena područja
Pravo

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