Commission v. Slovakia concerned the cornerstone of the internal energy market – non-discriminatory third party access to the network. It also involved the delicate interaction between EU law and international investment law. In particular, this case relates to the possibility of justifying...

The purpose of this legal and judicial sector assessment is to evaluate Slovak Republic's legal and judicial systems and institutions, and identify their strengths and weaknesses. The assessment serves as a flexible tool for application across countries and legal systems, applying a broad based,...

By the decision of 9 June 2009, the Antimonopoly Office of the Slovak Republic (Protimonopolný úrad Slovenskej republiky, hereafter AMO) has found that three major Slovak banks had infringed Article 81 TEC (now Article 101 TFEU) as well as the applicable Slovak competition rules contained in...

On-the-spot investigations (inspections, dawn raids) are now an indispensable tool in the portfolio of a competition authority's investigative powers. They constitute a very efficient method of seizing documents and accumulating information of an undertaking regarding its alleged anticompetitive...

The article’s objective is to rethink the current understanding of the European constitutional space in light of the Eastern enlargement that brings a different constitutional thoughts and language of the CEE constitutional courts (and scholars) into this space. The current scholarship...

Most constitutional systems count with the eventualities of unexpected circumstances threatening the constitutional order. These constitutions allow a constitutional regime’s partial or complete transformation into a constitutional emergency. Before 2020, Slovakia had almost no experience with...