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Markiewicz & Sroczyński law office was mentioned as one of the Polish leading competition and intellectual property law practices in a new boutique ranking, published in January 2015 by ”Polski Prawnik”.

Jaroslaw Sroczyński has commented for „Rzeczpospolita” the main changes introduced by the amendment of the Polish competition law as of January 18, 2015. Among others, the President of the OCCP has obtained the power to impose fines on members of the management in companies, for participation in prohibited arrangements. These powers extend not only to members of management boards but also to directors who oversee a particular activity of the undertaking. Fines can be imposed for price fixing but also for anticompetitive vertical agreements. See:

Markiewicz & Sroczyński GP was again nominated as one of the world’s 100 leading competition law practices in the ”GCR 100” ranking. Our law office has been named among Polish law firms as belonging to the highest ranking category – ”Elite”. See

On December 18, 2014 the Scientific Association for Protection of Competition and Consumers organized a conference at the Łazarski University in Warsaw. The conference was organized in connection with the amendment of the Law on the Protection of Competition and Consumers, entering into force on January 18, 2015. In his speech, Jarosław Sroczyński presented the topic of remedies as a new tool of enforcement, in the panel entitled “Practical implications of the amendment of the Competition Law”. The program included the most important issues of the forthcoming amendment, and among the speakers were mainly competition law practitioners.

On October 8, 2014, at the workshop “Energy sector vs. customer – problematic aspects of relations with customer in practice” organized by MM Conferences in Warsaw, Piotr Suski presented lecture on “Distance contracts and off-premises contracts in light of the new law on consumer rights”. Its purpose was to discuss new obligations arising from the Act on consumer rights from the perspective of energy companies.

On September 14,2014, lawyers from our office, Jarosław Sroczyński and Marcin Mioduszewski, partcipated in the Katowice Busienss Run. The event was a part of the national Poland Business Run, which took place also i Łódź, Poznań, Warsaw and Cracow. The team of J. Sroczyński and M. Mioduszewski run in a charity relay race under the name “The SPRING of lawyers”. Apart from J. Sroczyński and M. Mioduszewski, also Agnieszka Węglarz, Bartłomiej Kałucki and Małgorzta Paja participated, all engaged in the acticities of the WIOSNA Association.
„The SPRING of Lawyers” is a project of the WIOSNA Association, supported by the Cracow Bar in cooperation with “Dziennik Gazeta Prawna”.

The second edition of “The Dominance and Monopolies Review”, edited by Mr. Maurits Dolmans and published by the Law Business Research Ltd. in London, appeared in July 2014. The book provides an overview of the regulations on the abuse of dominant position in chosen countries from all over the world.
Jarosław Sroczyński has co-authored the chapter on Poland, presenting the activities of the President of the Office of Competition and Consumer Protection in dominance cases, regulations included in the Polish Law of 16 February 2007 on the Protection of Competition and Consumers, and citing examples of the proceedings taking place before the Polish competition authority.