In the face of continuing and increasing globalisation and the proliferation of national and regional competition laws, international competition law and policy has become over the last two decades one of the hottest and most widely discussed topics in the area of antitrust. As a result,...

The article is devoted to the influence of European competition law on the application of Polish competition rules by Polish courts. It covers references to EU law that has been made throughout 20 years of its history. It aims at identifying various instances where EU law has been invoked to...

This article focuses on the liberalization process of the railway freight transport market in Poland between 1997 and 2009. It shows that the increase in traffic and the fall in prices that occurred in this period took place not because of ‘effective regulation’ but despite its absence. This...

The aim of this paper is to provide an analysis of the commitments procedure under the Polish competition law, including both legal and economic perspective. The outcome of this research is supposed to help in estimation whether novel negotiated instruments may be successfully employed in the...

On 2 April 2009, the Polish Supreme Court (hereafter, Supreme Court or Court) delivered a judgment on the scope of power of the President of the Electronic Communications Office (hereafter, UKE) to impose obligations upon telecommunications operators in respect to particular markets under the...

This article discusses issues associated with exclusive rights to broadcast television coverage of sports events, in light of a decision of the President of the Office of Competition and Consumer Protection (hereafter, the UOKiK President) relating to a long-term license agreement between the...

The last twenty years can be described as a period of development of the so-called information society, i.e. a type of society characterized by a new shape of social and economic relationships. The information society has emerged as a result of ongoing technological progress accompanied by a...