Kosovo’s Law No. 08/L-056 on Protection of Competition serves as a key instrument in maintaining fair and open market conditions by addressing anti-competitive behavior, supporting free market principles, and aligning with EU legal standards. The law equips the Kosovo Competition Authority (KCA) with the authority to investigate, sanction, and prevent restrictive practices and abusive market…

PROCUREMENT IN KOSOVO

Kosovo has developed comprehensive legislation and regulations in regard to public procurement, and ensures accessibility, transparency and fairness of the procurement process, in particular through its E-procurement system. Besides “traditional” public procurement, where the services, works or goods are directly purchased by the Public Authority, Kosovo offers now a favorable legal and economic environment for…

For nine weeks, we have explained what personal data are, the rights of data subjects, the responsibilities of controllers and processors, the role of the Data Protection Officer, and the fines and sanctions imposed by the Information and Privacy Agency (IPA). This week, the tenth and concluding week of our series on personal data protection…

In the current wave of e-commerce around the world, many fraudulent individuals or businesses are appearing. This creates a loss of consumer confidence in online shopping and thus harms serious businesses that offer the original products according to customer requirements. Thus legal regulations in e-commerce are vital to protect consumers from fraudulent actors, maintain their…