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The CCA is also composed of an Expert team which includes the five members of the Competition Council and case-handlers who are lawyers or economists. Under Article 32, the expert team performs administrative and professional activities relating to competition issues. Those include:
- carrying out preliminary investigations with the view to defining possible competition concerns on the basis of wh …

The CCA's Expert team

The 1995 Act established a competition agency having the status of an autonomous administrative authority. Its responsibilities and powers are currently regulated by the Competition Act (OG 79/09) which covers its activities in the area of antitrust and merger control, and the State Aid Act (OG 140/05). The Croatian Competition Agency (CCA) is managed by a Competition Council composed of five members, one of whom is the President of the Council appointed by the Croatian Parliament on the proposal of the Government of the Republic of Croatia, for a five-year renewable term. The Council issues all decisions in its sessions, with the consent of a majority of at least three votes, whereby no member may abstain. The president of the Council organizes and runs the operational activities of the CCA and is responsible for its expert performance. The members and the president of the Council perform their duties professionally.

Pursuant to Article 30 of the Competition Act, the Council's activities include: 

- proposing the adoption of subordinate legislation to the Government;

- making decisions on the basis of which the CCA initiates and carries out compatibility assessment proceedings and proceedings involving the imposition of fines in respect of infringements of competition rules;

- promoting activities relating to competition advocacy and understanding of the benefits of competition and raising awareness on the role and significance of competition law and policy;

- issuing opinions on the compliance of proposed draft laws and other legislation with the Act.

The Revised Competition Act 2021 established the CCA as a general, national regulatory authority in charge of competition in all markets. The ECN+ Directive has brought the legal status, independence, organization and resources of the CCA into line with European law, guaranteeing its institutional, financial and operational independence. The CCA is now registered in the register of courts as a public institution. The CCA is now endowed with greater powers, in accordance with EU rules. 

The Council of the Croatian Competition Agency (CCA)

The CCA is also composed of an Expert team which includes the five members of the Competition Council and case-handlers who are lawyers or economists. Under Article 32, the expert team performs administrative and professional activities relating to competition issues. Those include:

- carrying out preliminary investigations with the view to defining possible competition concerns on the basis of which it will initiate proceedings; 

- proposing to the Council adoption of a decision on the initiation of proceedings;

- carrying out proceedings in individual cases establishing distortion of competition and proceedings relating to imposition of fines;

- drawing up drafts of closing decisions.

According to the Revised Competition Act 2021, the Competition Council as the managing body of the CCA and the CCA expert staff exercise theirs new powers autonomously, independent of any political or other influence and receiving no instructions from any public or private authority in carrying out of its tasks and powers. 

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