Zuzana Hodoňová is a counsel with Wolf Theiss in Bratislava, Slovakia. She is a member of the Competition & Antitrust, Employment, and Regulatory teams. Zuzana’s regularly advises large national and international clients on a wide range of EU and local competition matters as well as on employment and labour law, and data protection issues. Particularly, she focuses on antitrust issues and abuse of dominant position but also on merger control and state aid matters. Before joining Wolf Theiss, Zuzana gained 7 years of hands on experience while working for the competition team of a magic circle law firm. Zuzana obtained her Postgraduate Diploma in EC Competition Law from King’s College London, School of Law, and received her LL.M. degree in IT law from Stockholm University in Sweden. She speaks Slovak, English and German.
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Factual background On 22 March 2012, the General Court dismissed the actions brought by Slovak Telekom a.s. (“ST”) against the European Commission (the “Commission”) in joined cases T-458/09 and T-171/10 and upheld the Commission’s decisions C(2009) 6840 of 3 September 2009 (the “Decision (...)
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Factual background On 31 January 2012, the Supreme Court of the Slovak Republic (the “Supreme Court“) ruled in favour of the applicant, i.e. the Slovak Antimonopoly Office (“SVK AMO“), in its appeal against decision No. 1 S 27/2007-227 of the Regional Court in Bratislava amending decision (...)
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On 19 October 2011, the Slovak Parliament passed an amendment to the Competition Act (the “Amendment”). It was signed by the President of Slovakia on 4 November 2011 and following its publication in the Collection of Laws, it will become effective on 1 January 2012 and will apply to (...)
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The Supreme Court of the Slovak Republic (the “Supreme Court“) has provided that the judgment delivered the Regional Court in Bratislava (the “Regional Court“) annulling the decision adopted by the Slovak Antimonopoly Office ( “SVK AMO“) dealing with an agreement restricting competition in the (...)
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An amendment to Act No. 231/1999 Coll. on State Aid, as amended (the “Act on State Aid”) and to Act No. 233/1995 Coll. the Code of Enforcement of Judicial Decisions, as amended (the “Enforcement Code”), was passed on 23 March 2011, enabling that a Commission’s decision on the recovery of state (...)
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A summary of arguments adopted by the Regional Court in Bratislava (the “Court”) in annulling decisions taken by the Slovak Antimonopoly Office (the “SVK AMO”) concerning an agreement restricting competition in the banking sector. Factual background By its judgments No. 3S 57/2010 of 28 (...)
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Legislative background On 1 May 2010, Act n° 140/2010 Coll. on Unfair Terms in Business Contracts between Reseller and Supplier of Goods that are Foodstuffs (the “Unfair Terms in Foodstuff Act” or the “UTFA”) came into effect. Slovakia has a history of legislation dealing with unfair terms (...)
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Factual background Regional Court Bratislava (“Court“) overruled, in its judgment dated 15 December 2009, two decisions of the Slovak Antimonopoly Office (the “AMO”), namely the first instance decision No. 2006/DZ/2/1/140 dated 22 December 2006 and the appellate decision No. 2007/DZ/R/2/102 (...)
