22/02/2023

The Serbian competition authority continues to keep close watch of market participants’ online pricing practices

In the last four months of 2022, the Serbian Commission for Protection of Competition ("CPC") initiated five investigations for suspected competition infringements. The beginning of 2023 shows that the CPC's intensive work on detecting competition infringements is not of a passing nature, but is here to stay – the CPC started the year off with yet another investigation for suspected resale price maintenance (RPM) against a heating products company Vaillant.
04/11/2022

Serbian Competition Authority on a Spree: E-commerce and Gun-Jumping

Starting from the end of September up to the first week of November alone, the Serbian Commission for Protection of Competition (“CPC”) initiated five investigations for suspected competition infringements. Not only is this level of enforcement activity rather high compared to previous years, but it also shows the CPC’s clear interest in two areas – the e-commerce sector and unnotified acquisitions (gun-jumping).
14/10/2022

The Digital Markets Act: an ambitious attempt at regulating digital markets

Digital markets have seen rapid expansion during the past two decades. A few large undertakings have established their positions as dominant players in digital markets globally, creating serious challenges for competition law enforcement in ensuring efficient and effective market regulation. Existing enforcement measures proved to be outdated or too slow when attempting to regulate the conduct of the Big Tech.
05/09/2022

Obligations of the Employers under the Law on Gender Equality

More than a year passed from the moment when the Law on Gender Equality ("Official Gazette of the Republic of Serbia", no. 52/2021, "Law") entered into force superseding the old one from 2009. The most important statutory obligations are targeting only employers with more than 50 employees and individuals engaged on out-of-employment basis.
28/08/2022

New Instruction for Detecting Bid Rigging in Public Procurement Procedures

During the first half of 2022 The Commission for Protection of Competition of the Republic of Serbia ("Commission") has been very proactive with respect to prevention of competition infringements. As a result of these efforts, in May the Commission also adopted a new Instruction for detecting bid rigging in public procurement procedures ("Instruction") thereby updating the older version of the Instruction from 2011.
18/05/2022

RS Partners and Patterson Thuente IP advise a Serbian artist in a copyright infringement case

Radovanović Stojanović & Partners together with Patterson Thuente IP recently won a favorable settlement for a solo artist in a copyright infringement case involving a Minnesota-based Fortune 500 retailer.
12/04/2022

Radovanović Stojanović & Partners’ Legal 500 2022 Rankings

Radovanović Stojanović & Partners is pleased to announce it has been listed among the leading law firms in Serbia by Legal 500 in their newest EMEA 2022 ranking.
09/04/2022

Soravia Group GmbH sells New Mill office building located in Belgrade

Radovanović Stojanović & Partners, together with the investment team of CBRE SEE, advised Soravia Group GmbH on the sale of the New Mill office building located in Belgrade, Serbia. This transaction further cements Serbia as a growing investment destination...
19/03/2022

Raško Radovanović ranked in Chambers and Partners 2022 edition

We are pleased to announce that our partner, Raško Radovanović, is ranked in Chambers and Partners 2022 EMEA edition as the leading – Band 1 competition and antitrust expert in Serbia.