Protection of competition – Specific type of state regulation in market economies that prevent the limitation of competition and endangering the freedom of the market and entrepreneurship. The economic literature is also known as the name antimonopolist politics. Modern antimonopolist legislation usually forbid: Colusia, i.e. public or tacit negotiation between the enterprises for the amount of prices, the division of production quotas and markets; Illegal procedures of enterprises (bound contracts to consumers, discrimination on prices and dumping prices) and fuses between enterprises, if these are aimed at limiting competition. With the determination of the Republic of Macedonia for building a social system that will rely on the market economy and parliamentary democracy, the need for protection of competition increased. The start of the legal regulation for protection of competition is by adopting the law against the limitation of competition (1999). The regulation has been expanded during 2005. With the adoption of the Law on Protection of Competition and the adoption of several bylaws in the field of competition protection. These changes were harmonized the legislation in our country with the EU legislation in that OB-Last. In accordance with the 1999 Law, Antimonopoly Administration was established as a first instance body, while the role of a second instance body was awarded to the Ministry of Economy. With the legal regulation of 2005 The legal protection of competition is replaced, and the Antimonopoly Administration was replaced by the Commission for Protection of Competition. The new law regulates the banned forms of preventing, limiting or disturbing competition, the protection of competition, measures and procedures regarding the limitations of competition. The purpose of this law is to provide free competition in the domestic market in order to encourage eco-national park Pelister NOMA efficiency and well-being of consumers. The Law on Protection of Competition is applied to all forms of preventing, limiting or disturbing competition that produce the action on the territory of the Republic of Macedonia. It is applied to enterprises, enterprises associations, related enterprises, state administration and other legal entities, entrusting services from general interest. The law does not apply to the relations that are regulated by collective agreements concluded between employers and trade unions, if they are not discriminatory to other entities. In cases of abuse of the dominant position by natural and legal persons and in cases of exceeding a degree of concentration in the branch, the Commission for Protection of Competition adopts decisions for penalties that are published in the “Official Gazette of the Republic of Macedonia”. Against the Commission’s decisions, the parties can initiate an administrative dispute before the competent court. Exhibition: Law on Protection of Competition. Lit.: Practicum with Commentary on the Law on Protection of Competition, Skopje 2005; P. Samuielson and Nordhouse, Economic, Eyighatentich Editon, McGle-Hill International Edition, 2005, 350-358. M. S.
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