This book provides a comprehensive analysis of competition law and policy in the Western Balkans by assembling and examining reports from Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo, Montenegro, North Macedonia, and Serbia. It explores the evolution of competition law and policy in these jurisdictions and assesses the extent to which their domestic legislation aligns with the EU competition acquis.

Our research takes a bottom-up approach, focusing on the unique challenges faced by each jurisdiction within the context of their respective legal traditions. The volume includes institutional and enforcement empirical data collected and analyzed for the period 2012-2022, offering original insights into the development of competition law systems in these countries.

The book addresses a range of issues, including the historical development of competition law and policy in the Western Balkans countries; their institutional and legislative frameworks; the peculiarities of the national competition law systems that significantly differ from the EU acquis; the features that have been amended in the process of European integration; the application of domestic and EU competition rules by national competition authorities; enforcement and sanctioning statistics; judicial review; private enforcement of competition rules, and future challenges.

This edited volume provides an authoritative and rigorous overview of competition law and policy in the Western Balkans, making it of interest to academics, students, and practitioners in the field of competition law.

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Jasminka Pecotic Kaufman is Professor of Law at the Faculty of Economics and Business of the University of Zagreb, and Part-Time Professor at the Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies of the European University Institute (EUI). She is President of the Croatian Competition Law and Policy Association, ASCOLA Board Member, Co-Director of the ASCOLA South-Europe Chapter, and Editorial Board Member of the Yearbook of Antitrust and Regulatory Studies. A former Jean Monnet Fellow and a Fernand Braudel Senior Fellow at the EUI, her research focuses on the challenges of enforcing competition rules in European post-socialist countries.

Gentjan Skara is a lecturer of EU Law and Competition Law at the Department of Law, Epoka University College, Albania. Genti holds an LLB from the University of Tirana (Albania), an MA in European Studies from Epoka University (Albania) and an LLM in "South East European Law and European Integration" from the University of Graz. Genti has been a visiting researcher at the Institute of Corporate and International Commercial Law, University of Graz (Austria), the Department of International Law, University of Ljubljana (Slovenia) and the European Institute for Global Studies, University of Basel (Switzerland) and RECAS Fellow. Besides academic engagement, Genti is a National Legal expert for the "Internal Market and Competition" of EU acquis near the Ministry of European and Foreign Affairs, Republic of Albania and has provided its expertise to different national and international organisations. His research interests relate to EU Law, competition law, the harmonisation of laws, and the relations between law and technology.

Alexandr Svetlicinii is an Associate Professor of Global Legal Studies at the University of Macau, Faculty of Law, where he also serves as Programme Coordinator of the Master of International Business Law in English Language. He has written extensively in the fields of competition law and international economic law. Prof. Svetlicinii served as Co-Director of Academic Society for Competition Law (ASCOLA) South-East Europe Chapter, Non-Governmental Advisor (NGA) to the International Competition Network (ICN) and acted as a consultant for the European Commission and national governments on the matters of competition law enforcement.