Evidence Needed to Enable a Dawn Raid

Kód výsledku v IS VaVaI

<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F61989592%3A15220%2F25%3A73636129" target="_blank" >RIV/61989592:15220/25:73636129 - isvavai.cz</a>

Výsledek na webu

<a href="https://core.lexxion.eu/article/CORE/2025/4/10" target="_blank" >https://core.lexxion.eu/article/CORE/2025/4/10</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.21552/core/2025/4/10" target="_blank" >10.21552/core/2025/4/10</a>

Jazyk výsledku

angličtina

Název v původním jazyce

Evidence Needed to Enable a Dawn Raid

Popis výsledku v původním jazyce

Czech Competition Authority (CCA) gained powers to conduct on-site searches, in principle identical with those of the European Commission, already in 2004. For many years, the CCA&apos;s powers have not been successfully challenged. The first judicial decision finding that the CCA breached the fundamental rights of the parties under investigation came after 10 years of application in 2014. After all the competent Czech courts, including the Regional Court in Brno (RCB), Supreme Administrative Court (SAC) and the Constitutional Court (CC) approved the CCA’s inspection, the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) found an infringement. The CCA thus lost its invincibility, but even though the frequency and intensity of judicial review of dawn raids grew, the CCA has been rather successful and even managed to persuade the courts that it possesses powers that were hitherto disputed.By the end of 2025, the CCA nonetheless experienced a serious defeat. The Constitutional Court decided on the illegality of an inspection conducted in 2019, arguing that the evidence gathered by the CCA before the search was insufficient to authorize it. The CC’s decision thus provides an important clarification as to the burden of proof the CCA bears with regard to inspections on business premises.

Název v anglickém jazyce

Evidence Needed to Enable a Dawn Raid

Popis výsledku anglicky

Czech Competition Authority (CCA) gained powers to conduct on-site searches, in principle identical with those of the European Commission, already in 2004. For many years, the CCA&apos;s powers have not been successfully challenged. The first judicial decision finding that the CCA breached the fundamental rights of the parties under investigation came after 10 years of application in 2014. After all the competent Czech courts, including the Regional Court in Brno (RCB), Supreme Administrative Court (SAC) and the Constitutional Court (CC) approved the CCA’s inspection, the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) found an infringement. The CCA thus lost its invincibility, but even though the frequency and intensity of judicial review of dawn raids grew, the CCA has been rather successful and even managed to persuade the courts that it possesses powers that were hitherto disputed.By the end of 2025, the CCA nonetheless experienced a serious defeat. The Constitutional Court decided on the illegality of an inspection conducted in 2019, arguing that the evidence gathered by the CCA before the search was insufficient to authorize it. The CC’s decision thus provides an important clarification as to the burden of proof the CCA bears with regard to inspections on business premises.

Druh

J_SC - Článek v periodiku v databázi SCOPUS

CEP obor

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OECD FORD obor

50501 - Law

Projekt

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Návaznosti

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Rok uplatnění

2025

Kód důvěrnosti údajů

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Název periodika

CoRe

ISSN

2510-3148

e-ISSN

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Svazek periodika

2025

Číslo periodika v rámci svazku

4

Stát vydavatele periodika

DE - Spolková republika Německo

Počet stran výsledku

3

Strana od-do

363-365

Kód UT WoS článku

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EID výsledku v databázi Scopus

2-s2.0-105030198528