Oc­to­ber 2018 1. Where can one find pub­lic pro­cure­ment no­ti­fic­a­tions for Ser­bia? Pub­lic Pro­cure­ments Portal: ht­tp://portal.ujn.gov.rs/De­fault.as­px­In­ter­net sites of re­spect­ive con­tract­ing au­thor­it­ies...

The team of six com­pet­i­tion law­yers from CEE shared the ex­per­i­ence from their re­spect­ive coun­tries on the top­ic of ex­change of sens­it­ive in­form­a­tion

Chapter 1: The frame­work boiled down 1. What are the rel­ev­ant laws which reg­u­late ad­vert­ise­ment in your coun­try? Ser­bia has an Ad­vert­ising Act ("AA") that reg­u­lates vari­ous forms of com­mer­cial ad­vert­ising...

Pub­lished on ceeleg­al­mat­ters.com­Man­aged Entry Agree­ments con­sist of vari­ous forms of con­fid­en­tial ar­range­ments between phar­ma­ceut­ic­al com­pan­ies and pay­ing health­care sys­tems that aim to fa­cil­it­ate ac­cess to new tech­no­lo­gies in pub­lic health­care sys­tems. MEAs make in­nov­at­ive and costly medi­cines or med­ic­al tech­no­lo­gies af­ford­able to pa­tients by provid­ing con­di­tion­al ac­cess to a re­im­burse­ment sys­tem for a lim­ited peri­od and on bal­anced terms.

I. E-com­merce sec­tor – fact and fig­ures 1. Re­cent growth and trends in e-com­merce E-com­merce in Ser­bia has been stead­ily on the rise. Now, out of the hav­oc caused by the glob­al COV­ID-19 pan­dem­ic...

Com­pan­ies act­ing in the food sup­ply chain for 2021 should re­vise their sup­ply agree­ments and har­mon­ise their busi­ness prac­tices with the new na­tion­al laws im­ple­ment­ing Dir­ect­ive (EU) 2019/633 on un­fair trad­ing prac­tices in B2B re­la­tion­ships in the ag­ri­cul­tur­al and food sup­ply chain. The un­fair trad­ing prac­tices (so-called UT­Ps) scheme must be trans­posed to na­tion­al le­gis­la­tions by 1 May 2021. WHAT? The UT­Ps scheme seeks to com­bat B2B prac­tices in the ag­ri­cul­tur­al and food sup­ply chain that grossly de­vi­ate from good com­mer­cial con­duct, are con­trary to good faith and fair deal­ing, and are uni­lat­er­ally im­posed by one trad­ing part­ner on an­oth­er. In short, the in­ten­tion of the rules is to shield ag­ri­cul­tur­al pro­du­cers or any nat­ur­al or leg­al per­son selling ag­ri­cul­tur­al and food products from UT­Ps. The Dir­ect­ive en­vis­ages that na­tion­al laws will ap­point com­pet­ent au­thor­it­ies to en­force the UTP rules. WHO? The rules are not auto­mat­ic­ally ap­plic­able to all sup­pli­er-buy­er re­la­tion­ships. The rules ap­ply when there is a sig­ni­fic­ant im­bal­ance in ne­go­ti­ation power, which is as­sessed by com­par­ing the an­nu­al turnovers of the parties. HOW? Pre­cau­tion­ary meas­ures for de­term­in­ing busi­ness re­la­tion­ship con­di­tions must be ap­plied since na­tion­al laws have a wide dis­cre­tion in de­fin­ing the UT­Ps, provided that at least those spe­cified in the Dir­ect­ive are in­cluded. The list of UT­Ps is di­vided in­to prac­tices that are al­ways for­bid­den (e.g., pay­ment peri­ods longer than 30 or 60 days (de­pend­ing on the type of products), uni­lat­er­ally chan­ging cer­tain terms of a sup­ply agree­ment, etc.) and those for­bid­den de­pend­ing on the cir­cum­stances (e.g., re­quir­ing the sup­pli­er to bear the costs of dis­counts or ad­vert­ising, or to ac­cept back un­sold products without the ob­lig­a­tion of the buy­er to pay for them or for their dis­pos­al).