Marcin Mleczko is a lecturer at the Polish Academy of Sciences. He has worked for the Polish Competition Authority and for the Competition and Markets Authority until 2020. Currently, he is a member of the Department of Competition Law at the Institute of Law Studies of the Polish Academy of Sciences and a lecturer at Postgraduate Diploma in Competition Law.
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Introductory remarks In its decision of 18 September 2006, the President of the Office of Competition and Consumer Protection (hereinafter referred to as the ’President of UOKiK’) imposed fines on Polifarb Cieszyn - Wrocław S.A. (hereinafter referred to as ’PCW’) Praktiker Polska, OBI, (...)
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I. The Decision In its decision no DOK-1/2016 of 23rd December 2016, the Office of Competition and Consumer Protection (hereinafter the “Polish Competition Authority”) imposed a fine on Fordex and Intersport for violating Article 6 (the equivalent of Article 101(1) of the Treaty) of the Act (...)
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I. Introductory Remarks The act on counteracting the unfair use of contractual advantage in the trade in agricultural and food products of December 15, 2016, Journal of Laws of 2017, item 67 (hereinafter: the “Act”) will enter into force on 12 July 2017. It is the result of EU-wide (...)
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Sharing and traditional economy: matter of substitutability ... between cats and dogs?* Sharing economy firms are disrupting traditional industries across the globe. As Tom Goodwin once put it: “Uber, the world’s largest taxi company, owns no vehicles. Facebook, the world’s most popular (...)
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In its decision of 19 April 2010, the President of the Office of Competition and Consumer Protection (hereinafter the “Polish Competition Authority”) imposed a fine on the National Chamber of Notaries for anticompetitive conduct. The Polish Competition Authority found that the National Chamber (...)
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In its decision of 28 November 2011, the President of the Office of Competition and Consumer Protection (hereinafter the “Polish Competition Authority”) imposed a fine on Inco-Veritas S.A. in the amount of PLN 2,047,475.10 (equivalent of EUR 517,000) for the lack of cooperation during a (...)
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The article attempts to answer the question: to what extent can non-competition considerations play a role in the application of Polish competition law? Background analysis of EU competition law is also provided. Attention is focused on the meaning of ‘public interest’ invoked in Article 1 of (...)
