Competition and the Hungarian competition policy – Tendencies in the changes of the competition status quo of the Hungarian economy from the point of view of the legislative regulation of competition

My paper is the result of inner motivation. Having spent almost half a decade in the Competition Supervisory Board of the Hungarian Competition Authority I have felt an increasingly frequent and strong urge to answer the questions: what is the tangible result of the legislative regulation of competition, does it have specific bearing on the formation of competition situations, and has it contributed/is it contributing to the creation, or, indeed, the development of the competitive sector of the economy? I therefore request the Reader to regard my paper as a stage in my process of thinking. The author will try to summarise how far he has come in answering the original question. Meanwhile – naturally – he realised that he may not be seeking the answers to his original problems but has come upon some other, more important one in the course of his reflections.