Úřad pro ochranu hospodářské soutěže a jeho pravomoc

Abstract

The bachelor´s thesis is focused on the protection of competition including the definition of the Office whose mission is to supervise the legal behaviour of the participants in the market. The tendency to set the rules with the goal to hinder from the incorrect acting is possible to track down back to the deep history in the whole world. The rules gradually improved to the current version. The institutions charged with the protection of the competion had also their specific development. The transformation of the office also executed in the Czech republic after the year 1991. The current title „Office for the Protection of Competition“ (thereinafter “the Office”) has been established since 1996. It is settled in Brno. The economic competition has many definitions. Karel Engliš (1946) has hit it off as follows : “more persons demand or supply the same thing or service and compete with each other, therefore it requires the existence of the competition, plurality of the competitors and a struggle for the subject of the competition.“ The market where the competition takes place is divided into perfect and imperfect. This segmentation determines subjects operating in it. A lot of small-scale enterprises act in the perfekt market. The imperfekt market is classified into other four types: oligopoly, differential oligopoly, monopoly. The monopolistic competition and oligopoly represent actual economic situation. The existence of the free market economy was interrupted in the Czechoslovak republic after the World War II and was replaced with the planned economy lasting forty years. Re-entry of the free market economy meant the restraint of the state directing function and recovery of the market principles. The office for competition was assigned to perform the supervision of their observance. The mission of the Office for the Protection of Competition is to ensure that market behaviour is in compliance with competition rules and benefits the consumers. The Office provides guidance in and monitors state aid in the Czech Republic to ensure that provision of state aid is in compliance with applicable European Community rules. The Office permanently supervises if the competitors execute duties and publish proposals for permissions of competitors´association and its legitimate decisions.