Georgian Competition
and Consumer
Agency

Competition Authorities of various countries and International Organizations express their sincere condolence to the sudden demise of the Chairman of Competition Agency of Georgia, Nodar Khaduri. The Agency has received a lot of condolence letters, among them are:

Šarūnas Keserauskas – the Chairman of the Competition Council of the Republic of Lithuania;Margarida Matos Rosa – the President of the Portuguese Competition Authority; Rikard Jermsten - the Director General of the Swedish Competition Authority; Petr Rafaj - the Chairman of the Office for the Protection of Competition of the Czech Republic; Marcel Răducan - President of the Competition Council of the Republic of Moldova; Skaidrīte Ābrama – the Chairperson of the Competition Council of Latvia; Mladen Cerovac – the President of the Competition Council of Croatia; Julia Nenkova – the Chairperson of the Commission on Protection of Competition of the Republic of Bulgaria; Vladimir Koltovich - Minister of the Antimonopoly Regulation and Trade of the Republic of Belarus; Miklós Juhász - the President of Hungarian Competition Authority;Antonio Gomes – Acting Deputy Director (OECD); Antonio Capobianco – Acting Head of the Competition Division of the OECD; Alexandre Barreto de Souza – the President of the Administrative Council for Economic Defence of Brazil; Märt Ots - Director General of the Competition Authority of the Republic of Estonia; Jovana Tošković – the Member of Competition Council of Montenegro; Savvas Papasavvas - Judge of the General Court of the European Union; Ian S. Forrester - Judge of the General Court of the European Union; Rafael Comenge – the Managing Director of the B&S Europe; Teresa Moreira - Head of Competition and Consumer Policies Branch of the UNCTAD; Aurelio La Torre – the Team Leader of the EU Project – “Support to the Georgian Competition Agency;” Sabine Zigelski – Senior Competition Expert of the OECD; Daniel Stankov – the Director of Division of External Relations and Administration of the Office for the Protection of Competition of the Czech Republic; Eddy De Smijter - the Head of International Relations Division of DG Competition; Tadaharu Uehara - Ambassador of Japan to Georgia; Dijana Markovic Bajalovic – the Ex-President of the Commission for Protection of Competition of the Republic of Serbia; Bogdan Marius Chiritoiu - the president of Competition Council of Romania; Ivo Gagliuffi - the President of the National Institute for the Defense of Free Competition and the Protection of Intellectual Property (Indecopi);

The Agency has received condolence letters also from Antimonopoly office of the Slovak Republic, the Commission for Protection of Competition of the Republic of Serbia., the Confederation of Asia-Pacific Chamber of Commerce and Industry (CACCI), Commercial Law Development Program of the U.S. Department of Commerce, DLA Piper, IOS Partners and others.

Thank you for your sympathies and kindness at this difficult time!