The Commission for Protection of Competition extended the procedure for investigating the violation of competition to Gigatron, Tehnomedia Center, Emmezeta and XLS

10.05.2021.

The Commission for Protection of Competition (the Commission) initiated ex officio investigation proceedings of potential competition infringement and conducted a dawn-raid of Roaming Electronics, Tehnomania and Comtrade Distribution, in order to determine the existence of a restrictive agreement under Article 10 of the Law on the protection of competition, which restrict competition on the markets of retail and wholesale consumer electronics in the Republic of Serbia. More about this on https://ksel.rs/en/ex-officio-investigation-proceedings-of-potential-competition-infringement-and-conducted-a-dawn-raid/

In February 2021, the Commission extended the ex officio investigation proceeding to Gigatron export-import, Tehnomedia centar, Emmezeta Srbija and XLS Belgrade. The Commission, by analyzing the prices of certain consumer electronics products, established that Tesla brand products are offered at identical or almost identical prices, which the Commission already had in mind when initiating proceedings against Comtrade Distribution.

According to the Commission, these companies in the previous five years were involved in determining resale prices, meaning that these companies did not independently form retail prices of products but that together with Comtrade Distribution participated in price formation.