{"id":5247,"date":"2021-02-16T14:57:00","date_gmt":"2021-02-16T13:57:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.d-kart.de\/?page_id=5247"},"modified":"2021-02-16T14:57:16","modified_gmt":"2021-02-16T13:57:16","slug":"4-jasminka-pecotic-kaufman-from-croatia","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.d-kart.de\/en\/4-jasminka-pecotic-kaufman-from-croatia\/","title":{"rendered":"4: Jasminka Pecotic Kaufman from Croatia"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong><em>A key competition law development in Croatia in 2020: <\/em><\/strong>Apart from the COVID-19 pandemic, of course, 2020 AD will be remembered for <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/2020_Zagreb_earthquake\">the very strong earthquake in Zagreb<\/a> in late March. A chilly early morning, a ton of people in our street in pyjamas and overcoats, most with masks, all socially distanced, a queue starting to form in front of the local bakery amidst aftershocks fears and empty stomachs. No such earthquake was felt at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aztn.hr\/\">the Croatian Competition Agency<\/a>, which enjoys its post-accession slumber for some time now. Most of its decisions, again this year, relate to dismissing the unrelenting wave of desperate petitioners: some angry <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aztn.hr\/ea\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/UPI-034-032020-01005.pdf\">at the Croatian Bar Association for enjoying a legal monopoly and charging excessive entry fees<\/a>, another angry <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aztn.hr\/ea\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/UPI-034-032020-01005.pdf\">at its competitor for winning a tender for chimney sweep services<\/a>, or <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aztn.hr\/ea\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/UPI-034-032019-01014.pdf\">at the municipal funeral firm unduly blocking entry<\/a>. Urgently wanted: a big case with a large fine, more strategic case prioritization, or perhaps just more <a href=\"https:\/\/hdpptn.hr\/dogadanja\/\">Croatian Association of Competition Law and Policy webinars<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><em>A place to visit in Croatia after the pandemic: <\/em><\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/goo.gl\/maps\/PSq78aQg6oXAjuLc6\">Korcula Town on the Island of Korcula in the Adriatic<\/a>. The most beautiful place on the Planet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Jasminka Pecotic Kaufman is Professor of Law at the University of Zagreb, Faculty of Economics and Business, President of the <a href=\"https:\/\/hdpptn.hr\/en\/\">Croatian Competition Law and Policy Association<\/a> and Co-Director of <a href=\"https:\/\/ascolasee.net.efzg.hr\/\">ASCOLA South-East Europe Chapter<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image wp-image-4428\"><figure class=\"aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"937\" height=\"513\" src=\"https:\/\/www.d-kart.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Korcula.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4428\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.d-kart.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Korcula.jpg 937w, https:\/\/www.d-kart.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Korcula-300x164.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.d-kart.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Korcula-768x420.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.d-kart.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Korcula-600x328.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.d-kart.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Korcula-440x241.jpg 440w, https:\/\/www.d-kart.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Korcula-493x270.jpg 493w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 937px) 100vw, 937px\" \/><figcaption>Korcula town at the Adriatic Sea<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A key competition law development in Croatia in 2020: Apart from the COVID-19 pandemic, of course, 2020 AD will be remembered for the very strong earthquake in Zagreb in late March. A chilly early morning, a ton of people in our street in pyjamas and overcoats, most with masks, all socially distanced, a queue starting to form in front of the local bakery amidst aftershocks fears and empty stomachs. No such earthquake was felt at the Croatian Competition Agency, which&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"https:\/\/www.d-kart.de\/en\/4-jasminka-pecotic-kaufman-from-croatia\/\"> Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Read More<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":4441,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-5247","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"translation":{"provider":"WPGlobus","version":"3.0.0","language":"en","enabled_languages":["de","en"],"languages":{"de":{"title":true,"content":true,"excerpt":false},"en":{"title":false,"content":false,"excerpt":false}}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.d-kart.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5247","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.d-kart.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.d-kart.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.d-kart.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.d-kart.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5247"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.d-kart.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5247\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5249,"href":"https:\/\/www.d-kart.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5247\/revisions\/5249"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.d-kart.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4441"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.d-kart.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5247"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}