Review article

Antitrust legislation as an instrument of economic policy

Helena Morović

Abstract

The problems of antitrust legislation in the countries of the European Union and Croatia are analysed, with special regard to the issues subject to regulation. The analysis starts from the historical development of the right to the protection of market competition in the mentioned region with the presentation of contemporary tendencies and guidelines. From the legal standpoint, Articles 85 and 86 of the Treaty of Rome are specially analysed as bases for all subsequent legislative solutions. A brief outline of the Croatian Market Competition Protection Act gives an overall presentation of solving controversial situations in the market, by which nowadays the possibility of equal participation is constantly being denied to a large number of economic subjects. The macroeconomic background of antitrust policy reveals all the substantive causes of market mechanisms which need regulation. Only by understanding economic developments it is possible to solve the problem of market inequality and improve the conditions of market competition.

Keywords

antitrust legislation; the European Union; monopolistic position; price discrimination

Hrčak ID:

5133

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/5133

Publication date:

20.2.2006.

Article data in other languages: croatian german

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