Eastern Europe Competition Authorities

[Updated June 2008]

Competition Authorities

Documents & Consumer Information on Telecom & ICT issues

Other institutions

Albania Competition Department National Competition Policy – Chapter IV on Competition Policy and Cross-sector Deregulation (pdf; page 26)
Belarus Department of Antimonopoly and

Price Policy – Ministry of Economy

Bosnia and Herzegovina Council of Competition An opinion expressed about fulfillment of the conditions of competition in the relevant market of telecommunication services in Bosnia and Herzegovina 2006 (pdf)
Bulgaria Commission for Protection of Competition Communications Regulation Commission
Croatia Croatian Competition Agency

Regulation on Block Exemption Granted to Certain Categories of Technology Transfer Agreements (pdf)

Telecommunication Council
Czech Republic Office for the Protection of the Competition Press Releases:

- 2004 Telecom repeatedly infringed the law

- 2004 Mobile operators restricted competition

Estonia Estonian Competition Authority Electronic Communications Act (it is not the latest version )

Methodology for cost accounting and cost allocation by telecommunications network operator

Hungary Hungarian Competition Office
Latvia Competition Council
Lithuania Competition Council
Republic of Macedonia (Former Yugoslav)

Commission for Protection of Competition Memorandum of cooperation in the field of protection of competition on the market of electronic communications 2007 (pdf) Agency for Electronic Communications
Moldova National Agency for the Protection of Competition
Poland Office for Competition and Consumer Protection Consumer on the Internet: Spam

Polish Telecommunication Sector and the activity of the Anti-monopoly Authority, Warsaw 2003 (pdf)

Office of Electronic Communications

Econsumer

Romania

Romanian Competition Council
Serbia and Montenegro Commission for Protection of Competition

Internal Trade and Competition

Strategy of Electronic Communications Sector in Montenegro (pdf)
Slovakia

Antimonopoly Office of the Slovak Republic Abuse of a dominant position in the telecommunication sector – Published in WuW – Wettbewerb und Wirtschaft / National Competition Report – 4. Quarter 2005
Slovenia

Competition Protection Office of Slovenia
Ukraine Antimonopoly Committee

Additional Resources:

The International Competition Network (ICN)

Telecommunication overview from the European Commission

EFTA Surveillance Authority

Competition section from the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) website

Programa COMPAL de UNCTAD

The International Competition Network (ICN)

Committee on Competition Law and Policy (OECD / COMP)

European legislation on ICT

EU competition policy and the consumer

Competition policy in World Trade Organization (WTO)

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