Review of Ten Years of Albanian Competition Law Developments

• Authors: Nazifi Ermal , Broka Petrina
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

Albania was one of the last countries in Europe to adopt a free market economy after suffering from one of the worst dictatorial communist regimes in the world. In order to succeed in its efforts to establish a free market economy, Albania needed to undertake a set of reforms to modernize its economy in order to cope with the new reality of global markets and Euro-Atlantic integration. An important aspect of these reforms is also the implementation of a competition law in line with the acquis an its effective implementation. A lot has been achieved in the last ten years but there is a lot to be done still in order to facilitate a competitive economy able to cope with Albania’s EU integration. The work of the ACA is only one aspect of this process, but it is of utmost importance for the development of the national economy and successful EU membership.

Keywords

EN

abuse of dominance; Albania; Albanian competition authority; anticompetitive agreements; competition law and policy; merger review; private enforcement

• Publisher: Uniwersytet Warszawski. Wydawnictwo Naukowe Wydziału Zarządzania
• Journal: Yearbook of Antitrust and Regulatory Studies
• Year: 2015
• Volume: 8(11)
• Pages: 129-148

Dates

published

2015-06-30

Contributors

author

Nazifi Ermal

• Ph.D. Candidate, University of Tirana

author

Broka Petrina

• Ph.D. Candidate, University of Tirana

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Identifiers

ISSN

1689-9024