Joanna Faruga

It is well known that since 1st May 2004 and according to Article 3(1) of the Regulation n° 1/2003 the President of the Office of Competition and Consumer Protection (hereafter: the OCCP President), as the Polish National Authority, cannot apply only national law to practices prohibited by (...)

Röben Ceramika Budowlana Sp. z o.o. (hereafter: Röben) is a Polish limited liability company which is controlled by Röben Betailigungsgesellschaft mbH (Germany) who owns 100 per cent of its shares. Röben is specialized in manufacturing, inter alia, ceramic roofing-tiles, which are sold via (...)

In 2002 the Cable Television Chamber of Commerce located in Lodz (Poland) filed a complaint with the President of the Office for Competition and Consumer Protection (hereafter: the OCCP President) against the practices of Discovery Communication Europe, a company being registered in Wisconsin (...)

In 2003, the Office for Competition and Consumer Protection published a paper entitled “Polish Telecommunication Sector and the Activity of the Anti-monopoly Authority” dealing with competition law violations that occurred in this sector, with particular attention to the behaviour of (...)

President’s of the Office for Competition and Consumer Protection (Prezes Urzedu Ochrony Konkurencji i Konsumentów), 12 April 2007, Decision n° RKR-32/2007, concerning the vertical agreement concluded between Zaklad Tworzyw Sztucznych Gamrat S.A., a roof gutters systems manufacturer, and its 4 (...)

On March 7th, 2007 the President of the Office for Competition and Consumer Protection (hereafter the OCCP President) found that Narodowy Fundusz Zdrowia (National Health Fund, hereafter, NFZ) violated the dominant position abuse prohibition, contained in Article 8 paragraph 1 in conjunction (...)

Following a complaint from 2001, the President of the Office of Competition and Consumer Protection (hereafter: the OCCP President) issued on December 29, 2006, a decision declaring the joint setting of domestic interchange fee rates separately in Visa and MasterCard four-party payment card (...)

Like the European Commission, the Polish Competition Authority - the President of the Office for Competition and Consumer Protection (hereafter : the OCCP President) - is empowered to issue a formal infringement decision in spite of the practice having ceased. The OCCP President has been (...)

President’s of the Office of Competition and Consumer Protection (Prezes Urzedu Ochrony Konkurencji i Konsumentów), October 9th, 2006, Decision n° RWA-37/2006, concerning a price fixing agreement concluded between the National Library in Warsaw (Biblioteka Narodowa w Warszawie) and (...)

In the beginning of 2005, Polifarb Cieszyn- Wroclaw S. A. (hereafter : Polifarb), a producer of paints and varnishes, proposed to seven building materials supermarkets, namely, Praktiker, Obi, Castorama, Leroy Merlin, Nomi, Platforma and Bricomarché, a so called “stabilization discount”. The (...)

President of the Office of Competition and Consumer Protection (Prezydent Urzedu Ochrony Konkurencji i Konsumentów), 24 July 2006, Decision n° RGB 13/2006, concerning, inter alia, the practices of Polska Wytwórnia Papierów Wartosciowych S.A. (PWPW ) in Warsaw Polska Wytwórnia Papierów (...)

On June 12, 2006 the President of the Office of Competition and Consumer Protection (hereafter : OCCP President) rendered his final decision concerning the practices of the publisher Marquard Media Polska Sp. z o. o. (hereafter : Marquard Media). This decision terminates the antimonopoly (...)

The commented decision is the first decision by which the Polish Competition Authority condemned an entrepreneur for abusing its dominant position on the basis of the national and European competition law. It is thus the first Polish application of the obligation established by Article 3 (...)

The present judgment is the result of the judicial review of the decision of the President of the Polish Office of Competition and Consumer Protection (hereafter: “OCCP President”) on August 18, 2004. By this decision, the OCCP President declared that by restricting entrepreneurs from offering (...)

On January 9th, 2006, the Competition and Consumer Protection Court (hereafter,“CCPC”) upheld the decision of the President of the Office of Competition and Consumer Protection (hereafter, “OCCP President”) condemning ZAiKS Authors’ Association (hereafter, ZAiKS) for abusing its dominant (...)

The interim measures decision commented here was rendered on January 3, 2006 by the Polish Competition Authority - the President of the Office of Competition and Consumer Protection (hereafter, “OCCP President”) - in order to prevent plausible serious and hard-to-remove threats to competition (...)

The decision at hand, rendered on December 15, 2005 recalls previous decisions issued by the President of the Office of Competition and Consumer Protection (hereafter “OCCP President”) (See J. Faruga and V. Metonidze, The Polish Competition Court upholds the decision of the competition (...)

The decision at hand, rendered on December 12, 2005, by the President of the Office of Competition and Consumer Protection (hereafter, “OCCP President” or “President of the Office”) concerns practices of Kompania Weglowa S.A., the biggest coal company in the European Union (hereafter, the (...)

The present decision, rendered on December 2, 2005, concerns the practice of the Municipal Administration of Roads in the city of Kielce (the organizational unit of the commune of Kielce) consisting on the refusal to give access to the municipal transport bus stops to operators other than the (...)

The commented decision which was rendered on October, 14 2005 by the President of the Office for Competition and Consumer Protection (hereafter, “OCCP President” or “President of the Office”) results from the consumer complaint concerning the behaviour of Krakow Water Supply and Sewage (...)

The interest in this decision stems from the fact that it is concerned with the adoption of interim measures, a remedy recently introduced in Polish law. In August 2005, Netia S.A., an operator alternative to Telekomunikacja Polska S.A., the historic operator in Poland (hereafter, “TP (...)

President of the Office of Competition and Consumer Protection (Prezydent Urzedu Ochrony Konkurencji i Konsumentów), September 21st, 2005, Decision n° RPZ-28/2005 concerning the bid rigging between five entrepreneurs during the street and square cleaning services tender in Poznan for the year (...)

President of the Office of Competition and Consumer Protection (Prezydent Urzedu Ochrony Konkurencji i Konsumentów), April 15th, 2005, Decision n° RBG-15/2005 concerning TVN 24 Sp. z o.o.’ s abuse of the dominant position on the Polish language paid channel markets of 24h news and weather (...)

On the 31st of December 2004, the President of the Office for the Competition and Consumers Protection (hereafter, “OCCP President” or “President of the Office”) issued a decision in which he condemned the practices of Telekomunikacja Polska S.A. (hereafter “TP S.A.”) concerning the (...)

In 2004, the Lublin branch office of the Office for Competition and Consumer Protection (hereafter “OCCP”) opened an antimonopoly investigation concerning the practices of the Chamber of Vet Medicine of Lublin (hereafter, “the Chamber”). Chambers are professional bodies in which membership is (...)

Competition and Consumer Protection Court (Sad Ochrony Konkurenji i Konsumentów), December 22nd, 2004, Case concerning the National Notarial Chamber’s in Warsaw anticompetitive agreement (sygn. akt XVII Ama 5O/04), not yet published Sad Ochrony Konkurencji i Konsumentów, wyrok z 22/12/2004 w (...)

Johnson & Johnson Poland, member of the worldwide group of producing, import-exporting and selling of pharmaceuticals, is in charge of the distribution in Poland of a Swiss made medicine, Eprex. This medicine is used in the treatment of anemia provoked by an insufficient level of (...)

In July 2003, the President of the Office for Competition and Consumer Protection (hereafter, OCCP President or President of the Office) received a complaint from Drebszok-Drewpol (hereafter, “DD”) a Polish company having as its major activity exportation of lumber bought from the Regional (...)

On September 19th 2003, the President of the Office for the Competition and Consumers Protection (hereafter, OCCP President or, President of the Office) decided that the practice of Commune W. to limit the number of persons eligible to sell fixed term tickets for the city public transportation (...)