Bisera is a member of BDK Competition and Life Sciences practices. She advises clients on a full range of competition law topics, but her special stronghold is state aid. Industry-wise, she has a particular focus on competition and regulatory issues in life sciences. Although she sits in the firm’s Montenegrin office, she participates in competition law work of BDK Advokati across all of our three jurisdictions. Prior to joining BDK Advokati in 2015, she worked in the European Movement in Montenegro as Secretary General for three years. She coordinated projects in support of the Montenegrin EU accession process. Bisera is a member of the Working Group for preparation of Montenegro’s accession to the EU for Chapter 8 – Competition and is advising in that role on the harmonization of Montenegrin competition legislation with the EU acquis. Bisera holds a Bachelor in Law degree from Mediteran University in Podgorica and a Bachelor in Public Administration and European Affairs from the Faculty of Administrative and European Studies. She completed her postgraduate specialist studies in Business and Commercial Law at the University of Montenegro. She was then awarded Erasmus Mundus scholarship and in 2011, she graduated from the European Master in Law and Economics program specializing in law & economics of competition and regulation. She obtained LL.M degrees from the University of Hamburg and the Erasmus University in Rotterdam and an M.A. from the University of Bologna. Bisera also completed European Pharma Law Academy 2017 at Downing College, Cambridge. Bisera is fluent in English, conversant in French and reads Italian.
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The Government of Serbia adopted on 11 March 2021 two new bylaws under the State Aid Control Act (Zakon o kontroli državne pomoći, Official Gazette of the Republic of Serbia no. 73/2019): the Regulation on Conditions and Criteria for Compliance of Regional State Aid (Uredba o uslovima i (...)
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The Minister of Capital Investment in the newly elected Government of Montenegro announced on 24 December 2020 that the Government will not grant any more state aid to the national airline Montenegro Airlines. The decision equals a death verdict for the airline, as it’s only chance of survival (...)
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Following the decision on opening investigation into alleged illegal state aid to Montenegrin airline company Montenegro Airlines, which led to grounding of its airplanes and termination of transport operations in December 2020, the Montenegrin Agency for Protection of Competition (“Agency“) has (...)
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Since the beginning of the COVID-19 crisis, the Government of Serbia has adopted several state aid measures aimed at helping the economic entities preserve jobs and liquidity. In this respect, the Government took the lead from the European Commission and its measures adopted within the scope of (...)
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The Montenegrin Agency for Protection of Competition (“Agency“) issued on 3 September 2020 a decision to open a formal investigation procedure into the compatibility with state aid rules of the state aid granted by virtue of the 2019 Law on Investment into Consolidation and Development of the (...)
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Levelling the playing field on the internal market by competition law and state aid control rules has been the EU’s mantra from the very beginning. Meanwhile, the EU has become both the world’s main destination for foreign direct investment, with EUR 7,197 billion worth of foreign direct (...)
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Following the joint statementof 23 March 2020 by the European Competition Network (ECN), consisting of the European Commission, the European Surveillance Authority and the national competition authorities of each EU/EEA Member States on the joint approach to the application of competition law (...)
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Since the outbreak of COVID-19 in Europe, several national competition authorities have already opened investigations into potential infringements of competition laws. Italian competition authority has opened an abuse of dominance investigation into the sale of medical masks, gloves, and hand (...)
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In the face of COVID-19 pandemic, a number of European countries are taking extraordinary measures in an effort to slow down the spread of infection and cope with the toll that the epidemic is taking on healthcare sector and economy in general. In addition to being a serious threat to life and (...)
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The Serbian National Assembly enacted on 10 October 2019 the new State Aid Control Act, which will become applicable only on 1 January 2020 (with the exception of the provisions regulating the organization of the Commission for State Aid Control (“Commission“), which are already applicable). The (...)
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A new State Aid Control Act (Zakon o kontroli državne pomoći) (“SACA“) was adopted in Montenegro on 14 February 2018., bringing significant institutional, substantive and procedural developments to the existing state aid framework. Below we provide a summary of the main changes. Competition Agency (...)
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The Agency for Protection of Competition of Montenegro (“Agency“) has just published its 2016 Report, providing us with a detailed account of its activities in the previous year. The report is especially interesting for its pronounced criticism of the current competition law enforcement system in (...)
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The Montenegrin antitrust authority, the Agency for Protection of Competition of Montenegro (“Agency“), announced that the Higher Misdemeanour Court of Montenegro imposed on 10 July 2018 a fine in the amount of EUR 27,249.54 on the Montenegrin port operator “Luka Kotor” A.D. (“Luka Kotor“) for (...)
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The record of public enforcement of competition law in Montenegro is modest, despite the efforts which the national Agency for Protection of Competition has put in various investigations. Part of the problem lies in the dysfunctional enforcement dualism. The Agency is competent to establish (...)
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In a decision adopted on 24 March 2016, the Montenegrin Agency for Protection of Competition (“Agency“) found that the local water supply company from Budva “DOO Vodovod i kanalizacija” abused its dominant position on the market for water supply and waste water treatment and conduct on the relevant (...)
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The EU state aid rules are scattered among a number of documents, most of which represent soft law (notices, guidelines and similar documents issued by the European Commission). Harmonization with the EU State aid acquis therefore proved to be a challenge. In 2014, Montenegrin Government (...)
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On 29 December 2015, the Montenegrin Agency for Protection of Competition (“Agency“) issued its first conditional approval of a concentration, this time between Telemach A.D. Podgorica (“Telemach“) and M-Kabl doo Podgorica (“M-Kabl“). The concentration is a result of an indirect acquisition of full (...)
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