Bartosz is a partner and member of the competition law practice at WKB Wierciński Kwieciński Baehr. He holds a Ph.D. in law and is a graduate of the Faculty of Law and Administration at Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań (Poland) and of the University of London – King’s College London where he earned an LL.M. in Competition Law. Prior to joining the Firm, Bartosz worked as case-handler for the Polish Competition Authority. He was also a trainee at the DG Competition Cartel Unit of the European Commission in Brussels and worked at the Brussels office of Skadden Arps. He is a lecturer at Postgraduate Diploma in Competition Law at the Institute of Law Studies of the Polish Academy of Sciences in Warsaw. Bartosz is also a member of the University of Warsaw Centre for Antitrust and Regulatory Studies (CARS), the Competition Law Association and Non-Governmental Advisor, which is a part of International Competition Network cartel subgroup. In 2013 his Ph.D. thesis on leniency programs was awarded in the XLVIII Polish Nationwide Competition organized by „Państwo i Prawo” monthly magazine for the best habilitation and PH.D. thesis. He is an author of numerous publications on EU and Polish competition law, inducing a publication on leniency and a co-author of an Act on Competition and Consumer Protection Commentary and of an Act on Damages for Infringement of Competition Law Commentary. He is recommended by Chambers Europe and The Legal 500 in the area of Competition/antitrust as well as features in Who’s Who Legal Competition Lawyers and Future Leaders.
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In its decision in Case DOK-1/2016 of 23 December 2016, the President of the Office of Competition and Consumer Protection (the “OCCP”) imposed a fine of PLN 72,345 (approx. EUR 16,500) on a ski equipment wholesaler Przedsiębiorstwo Produkcyjno-Handlowe Fordex sp. z o.o. (“Fordex”), for fixing the (...)
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In its decision of 1 October 2014, the Polish competition authority (Urząd Ochrony Konkurencji i Konsumentów, the "UOKiK") unconditionally cleared DPD’s 100% acquisition of shares in a fellow small package delivery company, Siódemka (in English: “seven”). This decision is one of a limited number of (...)
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In its decision of 31 December 2013 , the Polish competition authority (Urząd Ochrony Konkurencji i Konsumentów, the "UOKiK") reviewed a bid-rigging case involving three farmers who participated in a tender organised by the Agricultural Property Agency ("APA") to sell undeveloped agricultural (...)
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In the decision of 21 August 2013 in Sports Broadcasting, the Polish competition authority (Urząd Ochrony Konkurencji i Konsumentów, the UOKiK), had the uncommon opportunity of analysing resale price maintenance (RPM) agreements with elements of hub-and-spoke arrangements. This is the fifth case (...)
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Franchise networks under siege from the Polish competition authority over alleged RPM arrangements* In its decision of 25 June 2013, the Polish competition authority has fined Sfinks Polska the amount of PLN 464,228.92 (approximately €107,000) for imposing fixed resale prices on its (...)
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The Polish competition authority imposed a fine of PLN 11 million (approx. EUR 3 million) on ENEA Operator S.A., a company distributing electricity in the northwestern Poland, which serves over 2,5 million customers. The President of the Office of Competition and Consumer Protection (“the OCCP (...)
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