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Polish competition authority: plans to launch a new product can hardly offer...
The Polish competition authority (Prezes Urzędu Ochrony Konkurencji i Konsumentów, “PCA”) has recently addressed the issue of resale price maintenance clauses (“RPM”) (see PCA decision of 31 December...
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Merger remedies – Hopes for a new approach
The recent practice of the President of the Office of Competition and Consumer Protection (the “OCCP”) shows that conditional clearance decisions are becoming more common. In 2014, the OCCP issued four...
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Polish Competition Authority announces important changes to its procedures
The Polish Competition Authority, which is the President of the Office of Competition and Consumer Protection (the “PCA”), has announced that, starting from 1 September 2015, it will be issuing...
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The Minister of the State Treasury will control mergers and acquisitions in...
On 30 September 2015, the Act on Control of Certain Investments (the “Act”) enters into force. The Act aims to create mechanisms to protect against hostile takeovers of companies operating in key...
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The Polish Competition Authority Gains New Powers to Fight Unfair Practices...
The Act on Combating Unfair Use of Contractual Advantage in Trading in Agricultural and Food Products (the “Act”) will enter into force in the mid-2017. The objective of the Act is to eliminate unfair...
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Polish competition authority launches a pilot program for the whistle-blowers
Let me get this straight from the beginning. I am not a big fan of the trend among the competition authorities to introduce whistleblowing programs. For me this seems to be rather a sign of weakness...
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Polish Competition Authority to Decide on Allegro E-Commerce Platform
Rzeczpospolita daily reported that UOKiK (Polish Office of Competition and Consumer Protection) is set to issue an important decision concerning a complaint against the online platform Allegro. Some...
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Dawn raids in Poland – tighter rules on the gathering of electronic evidence
On March 7, 2017, the Polish Court of Competition and Consumer Protection, the (“CCCP“), issued an important judgment regarding the powers of the Polish Competition Authority, the (“PCA“), to search IT...
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The Polish competition authority applies the principle of in dubio pro reo in...
The Polish competition authority applies the principle of in dubio pro reo in the case concerning a cartel on the domestic certification market (and refuses to use lie detecting devices) On 29 December...
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National competition authorities and FDI screening: the case of Poland
EU FDI Screening Regulation: separating security and competition concerns Regulation 2019/452 establishing a framework for the screening of foreign direct investments into the Union (EU FDI Screening...
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The Upcoming Polish 5G Auction: Assessing the Role of the EECC Directive
Starting in 2016, the EU set out the shift to high-capacity 5G networks with the adoption of the “5G for Europe Action Plan”.[1] These days, the buildout of the 5G network throughout Europe is...
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Competition Law And Media Plurality: Regional Court in Warsaw Intervenes In...
In February 2021, the Polish Competition Authority (Prezes Urzędu Ochrony Konkurencji i Konsumentów, UOKiK) cleared the media merger between Polska Press sp. z o.o. and PKN Orlen S.A. The Polish...
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Antitrust penalties for individuals in Poland
2021 – the year of first decisions – the law, the practice, and the facts The law The possibility to impose financial fines on individuals in case of undertaking anti-competitive agreements by...
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Mutual Trust and Rule-of-Law Considerations in EU Competition Law: The...
On 9 February 2022, the General Court handed down its judgment in the offbeat case Sped-Pro (T-791/19). Notably, the General Court ruled that before rejecting a complaint on the grounds that the...
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Main Developments in Competition Law and Policy 2021 – Poland
Central-Eastern European countries such as Poland may serve as an interesting point of reference for generally studying major trends in competition law and policy and, more specifically, in...
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Competition Law And Privacy: An Opinion on The Future of a Complicated...
In the wake of the recent hearing of the CJEU in the German Facebook case, this post assesses two common views on the integration of competition law and privacy policy, providing a general overview of...
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Main Developments in Competition Law and Policy 2022 – Poland
In 2022, the activities of the Polish Competition Authority (Urząd Ochrony Konkurencji i Konsumentów, hereinafter: UOKIK), and thus the developments in competition law in Poland, were affected by the...
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Europeanization, Regional Cooperation and the Challenges of Legal Transplants...
In April 2023, a Memorandum was signed between the competition authorities of eight Member States (Poland, Czechia, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Romania and Slovakia) and the competition...
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