Introduction -- Populism and its relationship with democracy and the economy -- Conceptualization of the impact populism on competition law systems -- Institutions -- Enforcement -- A regional system : the case of the European Union -- Conclusions and the way forward.

The article aims at presenting - from Poland's perspective - the challenges in building an adequate system of administrative sanctions. It is claimed that the efficiency of the functioning of this system should be balanced with the appropriate level of observance of procedural fairness as well...

The article studies how intensively the administrative decisions of the European Commission's counterpart - the U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) - are reviewed by the U.S. Circuit Courts of Appeal. The standard used by the U.S. courts to review FTC factual and economic findings, known as the...

The Article discusses how soft law guidelines can be used to achieve greater convergence with EU procedural rules in relation to undertakings' due process rights as well as national competition authorities (NCAs) greater transparency. The approach taken in this respect in 2015 by Polish...

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...

Under Regulation 1/2003, NCAs of EU Member States must apply Articles 101-102 TFEU to anti-competitive conducts with an effect on intra-Community trade, and must notify the Commission of investigations and envisaged decisions based on Articles 101-102 TFEU. In the last decade, the NCAs of the...

Competition law promotes a consumer-friendly economy and it may bolster democracy, but for the law to work in practice, competition agencies - and the courts who oversee them - must enforce it effectively and impartially. Today, however, the rule of populist governments is challenging the...

The aim of this working paper is to preliminary identify those processes triggered by the rise of illiberal populism which have a potential to adversely affect the competition law system. It is hypothesized that these processes may be of a three-fold nature: 1) they may involve limitations on...

In May 2013 the President of the Office of Competition and Consumer Protection (UOKiK), the Polish Competition Authority, published its Annual Report for 2012. This piece provides an overview of the reported activities within the competition law & policy domain, and comments on some of them

The President of the Office of Competition and Consumers Protection (hereafter, UOKiK) issued a decision on 2 June 2006 (RKT-35/2006) finding that Marquard Media Polska has abused its dominant position (breach of Article 8(2)(1), (5) and 7 of the Act of 15 December 2000 on Competition and...