2016 Amendment of the Czech Significant Market Power Act of 2009
The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F29142890%3A_____%2F16%3AN0000033" target="_blank" >RIV/29142890:_____/16:N0000033 - isvavai.cz</a>
Result on the web
<a href="https://www.yars.wz.uw.edu.pl/yars2016_9_14/227.pdf" target="_blank" >https://www.yars.wz.uw.edu.pl/yars2016_9_14/227.pdf</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.7172/1689-9024.YARS.2016.9.14.11" target="_blank" >10.7172/1689-9024.YARS.2016.9.14.11</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
2016 Amendment of the Czech Significant Market Power Act of 2009
Original language description
The Significant Market Power Act (SMPA) adopted in 2009 regulates the assessment of, and the prevention of, the abuse of market power in the sale of agricultural and food products. The Act generated many controversies from the outset, survived legislative proposals for its abolition, to be finally amended in 2016. However, this kind of legislation failed to solve most of the problems and even managed to create additional controversies. The new amendment formally simplified the actual wording of the SMPA by transposing its numerous earlier appendixes, which contained an exemplary list of prohibited forms of SMP abuse, to the actual text of the Act. It also improved transparency and clarity with respect to its earlier vague and ambiguous terminology. At the same time, the amendment seriously modified the scope and principal philosophy of the SMPA by removing the previously required “substantial detriment to economic competition” as the pre-condition of the applicability of the Act. However, since the enforcement of the SMPA falls into the scope of the activities of the Czech Office for Protection of Economic Competition (in Czech Úřad pro ochranu hospodářské soutěže, UOHS), the concerns and doubts of the business community continue to grow whether this form of regulation is appropriate after the modification of the concept.
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>x</sub> - Unclassified - Peer-reviewed scientific article (Jimp, Jsc and Jost)
CEP classification
AG - Legal sciences
OECD FORD branch
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Result continuities
Project
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Continuities
N - Vyzkumna aktivita podporovana z neverejnych zdroju
Others
Publication year
2016
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
YEARBOOK OF ANTITRUST AND REGULATORY STUDIES (YARS)
ISSN
1689-9024
e-ISSN
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Volume of the periodical
9
Issue of the periodical within the volume
14
Country of publishing house
PL - POLAND
Number of pages
19
Pages from-to
227-245
UT code for WoS article
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EID of the result in the Scopus database
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