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On November 21, 2016, 8th Competition Law Congress took place at the Novotel Warsaw Airport Hotel. The Congress was co-organized by Puls Biznesu.
During the event, Jarosław Sroczyński delivered a lecture entitled “Franchising: not all gimmicks allowed. Examples from the case law and market practice”. Mr. Sroczyński discussed, in particular, the RPM arrangements in franchise agreements, in the context of the Polish Sfinks case.
Participants of the Congress discussed also the risks of information exchange, exclusivity in vertical agreements, the issue of unfair advertising, etc.

In November 2016, CH Beck has published a post-conference book entitled “Consumer law in practice”, edited by Dr. Marzena Czarnecka and Prof. Tadeusz Skoczny. The book contains speeches and lectures delivered by the participants of the National Consumer Conference, organised on May 09-10, 2016 in Katowice.
One of the speakers at the Conference was Mr. Sroczyński, who delivered a lecture entitled “The OCCP – what do we get from it? A methodological research of the consumer outcome”. This lecture has now been published as an article in the post-conference book. The article deals with methods of research of the consumer outcome, understood as material benefits which Polish consumers obtain in result of various activities of the Office of Competition and Consumer Protection.

“Rzeczpospolita” published a review by Prof. Stanisław Sołtysiński of the book of Prof. Ryszard Markiewicz, entitled “Playing with copyright law”. The eminent author of the review has described the book of Prof. Markiewicz as “the most important monograph in the Polish legal literature about the limits of the author’s property”. See the link:

On October 13, 2016 Mateusz Mroczek participated in the conference organized in Warsaw by Instytut Wolności, which supports Polish companies recognized as so-called Strategic Assets, i.e., those which largely influence the strength and competitiveness of the Polish economy. During the conference, a special report was presented on companies which have the largest innovation and development potential.

In the recent issue of the on-line periodical „The Internet Antimonopoly and Regulatory Quarterly” (iKAR 5(5)/2016) of the Centre of Antitrust and Regulatory Studies (CARS) of the University of Warsaw, a commentary of Marcin Mioduszewski was published regarding the judgment of the Appellate Court in Cracow delivered on June 25, 2015 (case No. I ACa 466/15).
The commentary, entitled “Termination of license agreement for the use of the repertoire by the organization for collective management of related rights under the abuse of the organization’s dominant position”, can be accessed at the following internet address:

In June 2016, a post-conference book was published on “Economics of Competition Protection. Vertical Restraints”, edited by Prof. Anna Fornalczyk and Prof. Tadeusz Skoczny. The book contains articles and speeches presented by the participants of the international conference, organized in Warsaw in October 2015 by the OCCP and the Centre for Antitrust and Regulatory Studies (CARS).
During the conference, Mr. Sroczyński was speaking on “Behavioral economy as an analytical tool in competition law”, in the panel entitled “Use of economics in the application of competition law”. The above presentation was now published in the post-conference book as an article under the same title. The publication contains also accounts of the different panels held during the conference. Mr. Sroczyński was a moderator of one them, devoted to “The areas of application of economic analyses in antimonopoly law”.

On April 14, 2016, Jarosław Sroczyński presented a lecture entitled “Remedies: is the OCCP a market regulator?” and discussed the 2015 and 2016 amendments of the Polish Competition Law. The lecture was organized for corporate lawyers (including legal advisors, advocates and applicants) by the Association of Corporate Counsel Europe (ACC Europe) and the Economic University in Katowice. ACC Europe is a part the Association of Corporate Counsel (ACC), established in 1982, which groups 40,000 members from 85 countries, employed in over 10,000 corporations.