Knowledge and understanding
After successfully mastering the course, students will be able to:
- define the concept and purpose of competition law
- identify sources of competition law
- describe historical development of competition law
- recognise competition authorities
- explain the concept of relevant market
- discuss prohibited agreements and consequences of such agreement
- explain the concept and consequences of monopolistic operation and concentrations
- name bodies that ensure free market competition
- discuss state subsidies
- explain the influence of economic theories on the qualification of certain violation of market competition rules
Application
After successfully mastering the course, students will be able to:
- apply relevant legal rules and institutes;
- interpret the role of competition law on economy as a whole:
- independently use regulations from the area of competition law;
- conduct an independent research in order to find the most appropriate soluction in a concrete situation
Analysis
After successfully mastering the course, students will be able to:
- distinguish between public law and private law protection;
analyse concepts of market force and relevant market;
- categorise different types of restriction of market competition through cartels;
differentiate manifestations of forbidden agreements (horizontal and vertical), abuse of leading position and concentration;
- examine concepts of forbidden agreement, abuse of market position and forbidden entrepreneurial concentration
Synthesis
After successfully mastering the course, students will be able to:
- recommend to the damaged client concrete measures of protection from illegal entrepreneurial activity;
- formulate measures of protection of market competition that can be taken by competent regulators;
- construct hypothetical cases of violation of market competition
Evaluation
After successfully mastering the course, students will be able to:
- assess Croatian competition law in the context of the competiton law of the EU;
- compare competition law in a narrower sense with related areas - regulation of netwrok industries and state subsidies;
- judge what is the role of competition law on economy as a whole;
- assess what subjective rights competition law ensures to entrepreneurs;
- compare procedural and substantive law stipulations of competition law;
- estimate the role of national agencies and regulators with regard to appropriate bodies on EU level;
- evaluate the relation between different forms of violation of market competition, i.e. to what extent do certain violations overlap;
- estimate the influence of economic theories on the qualification of a certain violation of market competition.