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On 4 December 2020 the Office for the Protection of Competition (the office) announced in a press release(1) that it had imposed a Kc32 million (approximately €1.2 million) fine on Czech retail chain HRUŠKA, spol sro for an alleged abuse of significant market power. The decision is not final and an appeal has been filed. According to the press release, the retail chain allegedly violated the Significant Market Power Act (SMPA) by fully transferring all business risks and losses associated with the sale of goods nearing their expiration date to dozens of its suppliers between 2016 and 2019. The retail chain was said to have provided its suppliers with a so-called full service , within which it demanded that suppliers reduce the price of goods already in stock if their expiration date was near. If these goods were not sold before the expiration date, a corrective invoice was issued to suppliers. As a result, suppliers had to return part of the money for the goods to the retail cha

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