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On February 17, 2015, Piotr Suski conducted an all-day training on “Consumer rights in the energy sector”, organized in Warsaw by For Energy Consulting and onPRomotion Public Relations for the energy sector representatives. The training was devoted to powers of the President of the Office of Competition and Consumer Protection in the field of the protection of consumers’ rights, abusive clauses, unfair market practices and disclosure requirements in relation to the consumer (including obligations under the new law on consumer rights).

On February 4, 2015 Jarosław Sroczyński delivered a lecture for the participants of the workshop entitled „Competition law – recent changes and current issues”, which was held on February 4-5, 2015 in Warsaw. The workshop was organized by MM Conferences. In his lecture, entitled „Remedies – new rights of the President of the OCCP in combating the anticompetitive practices”, Mr. Sroczyński presented the essence and power of remedies, introduced as of January 18, 2015 in the amended Law on the Protection of Competition and Consumers.

On January 29, 2015, an international portal Policy and Regulatory Report (PaRR), which delivers analyses on competition law, has published the comments of Jarosław Sroczyński on the implementation in Poland of the EU Directive on Antitrust Damages Action, signed on November 26, 2014. The Directive contains a number of provisions aimed at harmonizing the national laws and rules of conduct, to make it easier for consumers and businesses to obtain compensation for losses they have suffered in connection with the operation of cartels.

In the opinion of Mr. Sroczyński, the chances for a quick and efficient implementation of the Directive in Poland are rather poor. One of the main obstacles here is the excessive formalism of Polish courts.

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.