ANALYSIS
Protection of Competition
More details about our activities in previous years are
available at: www.kzk.gov.mk.
I believe that market players are not sufficiently familiar
with the Law and its implementation. Mostly, in Macedonia illegal activities are related to price fixing in the
area of anti-competitive agreements and the abuse of a
dominant market position.
There are no specific sectors on which the Commission pays more or special attention, because the Law on
Protection of Competition applies to all forms of prevention, restriction or distortion of competition.
EM: Do you think that the Commission is helping the
business community to create a more competitive environment without creating unnecessary bureaucratic burden?
Churlinov: In my opinion, the Commission does not place an unnecessary bureaucratic burden on businesses, since we aim
to ensure free competition on the domestic market, stimulate economic efficiency and
consumer welfare. According to the Law, any
company can seek protection from anti-competitive activity by filing a misdemeanor procedure with the Commission.
1 and we developed and adopted several legal acts necessary for our work, organized capacity building trainings for Commission employees and other stakeholders
such as State institutions, courts, business people and
journalists.
Also in June 2014, we began another project funded by
the British Embassy in Macedonia that is closing at the
end of April 2015. Here we organized more concrete
trainings for Commission employees on the EU’s “leniency policy”, conducting investigations, collecting evidence as well as monitoring and evaluating of State aid.
We also delivered training to economic chambers to
ensure business people’s awareness of their rights and
responsibilities in this area.
EM: The Commission recently finalized a
twinning project with the British government; what were the main results from the
project?
Churlinov: In January 2014, the twinning
project was funded through IPA Component
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Mr. Marjan Minovski from Macedonia. Its predecessor company, MI-DA Motors, had already
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