H00 - Public Economics: GeneralReturn

The competence of the Antitrust office include mainly economic competition and public contracts and the supervision of its effective functioning. The aim of this paper is to compare the work of the Antitrust office in these areas. The monitored areas are the sanctions imposed by the Authority in the first instance, the average penalty imposed by the Authority in the first instance, the number of initiated administrative proceedings, the number of appeals submitted in the first instance and development trend analysis of budget and number of employees of the Authority and the number of employees in the surveyed sections.

National Development Plan of the Czech Republic is the basic strategic document related with drawing on financial support from the Structural Funds and the Cohesion Fund of the European Union for the given programming period. In case of the Czech Republic, two such documents have been drafted: one for the incomplete programming period of 2004-2006 and the other for full programming period of 2007-2013.This paper deals with the comparison of individual parts of both National Development Plans. The paper follows the binding structure of National Development Plans and describes, in logical order, current development of the Czech Republic, SWOT analysis, selected goals and strategies, focus of priority axes and operational programmes (omitting areas that deal with the management and monitoring of financial help and financial frameworks).The paper focus on individual development tendencies that can be discovered in these strategic documents and creates a specific view that shows the existing development of the National Development Plans and exposes certain factors that may be used in the development of the next National Development Plan.