Piotr Borowiec is an experienced in-house legal counsel specializing in EU competition law, antitrust, and commercial. Currently, he acts as a Senior Legal Counsel for UNIMOT, an Oil&Gas company, in Poland. Prior to that Piotr was a Lead Competition Legal Counsel for PKN ORLEN (Warsaw, Poland), and CANPACK (Cracow, Poland). Before starting as an in-house, he was an attorney at Sołtysiński Kawecki & Szlęzak and Hogan Lovells. He also worked at the Polish Office of Competition and Consumer Protection as a case handler. He graduated from Maria Curie Sklodowska University in Lublin, Piotr also accomplished postgraduate studies on competition law at Jagiellonian University in Cracow. He is admitted to the Warsaw Bar of Attorneys-at-law and is a member of the Polish Competition Law Association.
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On 24 February 2009, a new Regulation on the Polish leniency programme (Regulation of the Council of Ministers of 26 January 2009 concerning the mode of proceeding in cases of enterprises’ applications to the President of the Office of Competition and Consumer Protection for immunity from or (...)
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Factual background: The claimant brought an action against the Agency for Restructuring and Modernization of Agriculture for payment in relation to the agreement on grant of financial aid for the claimant in respect of a project relating to periodic suspension of activities concerning (...)
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On 7 January 2009, the Polish Supreme Court issued a long awaited judgement concerning an “English clause“ in an agreement between pay TV operator (Canal +) and a Polish football association, Polski Związek Piłki Nożnej ("the PFA"), which was assessed by the President of the Office of Competition (...)
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Factual background: The plaintiff brought an action against M.L. to recover unduly received financial aid in relation to SAPARD Programme. According to the agreement between the Agency and the defendant, the Agency undertook to refund part of the costs incurred in order to complete the (...)
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On 12 November 2008, the Polish Court for Competition and Consumer Protection (“the Court”) overturned the decision of the President of the Office for Competition and Consumers’ Protection (the “OCCP” or the “Office”) concerning interchange fees. The court stated that the participation of 20 Polish (...)
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On 16 October 2008, the Polish Supreme Court issued a decision clearly defining the concept of abuse of a dominant position by imposing unfair contractual conditions. The main legal points concerned the ability to act independently as an element of the definition of a dominant position. The (...)
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On 7 July 2008, the President of the Office for Competition and Consumers’ Protection (‘the OCCP’ or “the Office’) confirmed that Xella Polska Sp. z o.o., a part of the Franz Haniel & Cie Gmbh capital group (“Xella Polska") and its 10 distributors had infringed the competition law rules by (...)
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Factual background On 7 April 2008, the President of the Office for Competition and Consumer Protection («OCCP») found Castorama Polska Sp. z o.o. («Castorama») and ICI Polska Sp. z o.o. («ICI») guilty of a concerted practice regarding the price fixing of paints and varnishes. The joint amount of (...)
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On 31 December 2007, the Polish President of the Office for Competition and Consumer Protection (“the OCCP”) fined both PKN Orlen S.A (“Orlen”) and Grupa Lotos S.A. (“Lotos”), two leading Polish oil and petrochemical companies, for a concerted practice regarding the discontinuation of the manufacture (...)
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On 25 October 2007, the Polish President of the Office for Competition and Consumer Protection (“OCCP") fined TP Emitel, a subsidiary of the Telekomunikacja Polska (part of the France Telecom group) for price discrimination against public broadcasters. The amount of the fine reached almost 5 (...)
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On 14 June 2007, the Polish President of the Office for Competition and Consumer Protection (“OCCP") issued a decision concerning alleged price fixing and market sharing of medicines containing human recombined erythropoietin (EPO). The OCCP had decided that agreements between Johnson & (...)
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On 16 February 2007, the Polish Parliament passed a new Act on Competition and Consumer Protection, which introduces some changes to current Polish competition law. The new Act introduces the following principal changes: a) the jurisdictional turnover thresholds for notifying concentrations (...)
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