The Tirana Court of Appeals upholds the District Court’s judgment quashing the NCA decision concerning a concerted practice case in the markets for wheat import and production of flour (Atlas / Bloja)

On April 2012 the Court of Appeals of Tirana handed down a judgment confirming a decision of the District Court of Tirana on quashing a decision of the Albanian Competition Authority (ACA). This decision imposed a fine on two major companies operating in the market of import of wheat and the production of flour used in bread products. This judgement of the Court of Appeals of Tirana was referring only to one of the companies Atlas SHA. In a separate judgement the District Court of Tirana has decided to quash the decision of ACA also for the other undertaking Bloja SHA. ACA has appealed both decisions. At the time of the writing of this note, only the decision on Atlas SHA was available from the Court of Appeals of Tirana. ACA started an ex