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On 29 February 2024, the Serbian Commission for Protection of Competition ("CPC") published its infringement decision against Atlantic Grupa d.d. and its Serbian subsidiaries, Atlantic Brands d.o.o. and Atlantic Grand d.o.o., ("Atlantic Group") and Strauss Adriatic d.o.o. ("Strauss") from 29 December 2023 ("Decision").

In late October 2023, the Serbian Parliament was quite busy with a significant number of legislative changes and novelties on its docket at the 26 October session. One of the items on the list was also the adoption of the long-awaited Law on Amendments to the Law on Tobacco ("Law"), which entered into force on 4 November 2023 ("Effective Date").

Radovanović Stojanović & Partners advised TI Holding, member of the Polish Tuplex Group, on the acquisition of all shares in Montenegrin Materia d.o.o.

Radovanović Stojanović & Partners advised the shareholders of Pharmanova on the gradual sale of their shares to Sopharma AD.

Radovanović Stojanović & Partners advised the shareholders of SKS365 Group, one of the main omnichannel operators in the Italian online and sports betting market, on the sale of SKS365, including its Serbian subsidiaries, to the Italian Lottomatica Group S.p.A.

Radovanović Stojanović & Partners has advised Soravia Group on the sale of all shares in PRIGAN DOO to Delta Real Estate Group.

The Serbian Commission for Protection of Competition ("CPC") has recently published a report on its sector inquiry in the cement and concrete markets in Serbia, conducted from 2018 to 2021 ("Sector Inquiry"). The CPC aimed to determine the relationships between competitors on both markets, assess their market shares and relative strength, analyse their commercial policies and contractual relations...

We are pleased to announce that Radovanović Stojanović & Partners has achieved top rankings in the latest Legal 500’s EMEA 2023, a total of eight. The 2023 edition of the guide recognizes our Commercial, Corporate and M&A, Employment and Competition practices as top ranked ones.

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.

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.