Serbia does not have a foreign investment screening regime comparable to European regimes shaped by the EU FDI Screening Regulation. Rather, Serbia operates a single-sector authorisation system covering the defence sector.

The Turkish Competition Authority (“Authority”) has published its Nadirkitap decision in which it evaluated the allegation as to whether Nadirkitap Bilişim ve Reklamcılık AŞ (“Nadirkitap”), a company providing mediation services in the online sale of the second-hand books through its website named www.nadirkitap.com, violated Article 4 of the Law No. 4054 on the Protection of Competition (“Law No. 4054”) by way of hindering the activities of the competitors by way of not providing the data sets of its seller members who wish to market their products through rival intermediary service providers (“Investigation”). Upon its investigation, the Competition Board (“Board”) decided to impose an administrative monetary fine on Nadirkitap.

Havel & Partners has advised Slovenska Posta on a four-year investigation and administrative proceedings concluded with imposing commitments and no fine.

E+H has announced that Christoph Lejsek and Florian Sagmeister have been promoted to Partner on July 1, 2022.

PPG Lawyers has successfully represented Copa Isi Sistemleri San. ve Tic. in unfair competition proceedings before the Bulgarian Competition Protection Commission and the Supreme Administrative Court of Bulgaria.

This article provides an up-to-date overview of the currently existing FDI regimes in Romania.