The Act penalises four groups of infringements, with fines for material breach ranging up to HRK 5 million and up to HRK 100,000 for procedural infringements.

On November 10 2014 the Competition Agency announced that it had concluded another proceeding dealing with resale price maintenance, as prohibited under Article 8 of the Competition Act, which mirrors Article 101 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union.

The Amendments to Croatia’s Competition Act that entered into force at the beginning of July 2013 ("Amendments") inter alia aim at removing the procedural loopholes that had been observed over the past few years (see our legal insight of 27 August 2013 on the changes to the Croatian merger control regime).