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Second Polish National Scientific Conference "Security, regulation and competition in the energy market"
We invite you to II. National Scientific Conference "Safety, regulation and competition in the energy market", which will be held on April 26, 2018 at the Faculty of Law and Administration of the University of Lodz, ul. Kopcińskiego 8/12. CARS is the honorary patron of the event.
Call for Papers, YARS 2018 vol. 11(18)
The Editorial Board of Yearbook of Antitrust and Regulatory Studies (YARS) kindly invites submissions of the papers that refer to law & economics of competition and sector-specific regulation for YARS 2018, vol. 11(18). YARS is a double peer-reviewed, open-access academic journal (see www.yars.wz.uw.edu.pl), focusing on legal and economic issues of antitrust and regulation. YARS is published by the Centre for Antitrust and Regulatory Studies (CARS) of the University of Warsaw since 2008. For more information please see the attached Call for Papers.
Seminar on Contractual Advantage on March 7, 2018
The Center for Antimonopoly and Regulatory Studies of the University of Warsaw (CARS) together with its partners cordially invites you to the Seminar entitled Challenges in commercial relations in the supply chain of food products after the Act on Contractual Advantage .
The seminar aims to assess the first effects of the act on counteracting the unfair use of contractual advantage in trade in agricultural and food products , which entered into force on July 12, 2017, and to analyze the possible legal and business consequences for the sector food and trade. The seminar will be held on March 7, 2018 at the Faculty of Management of the University of Warsaw (ul. Szturmowa 3, 02-678 Warsaw). Free admission. Please confirm your presence by February 28 by sending an email to
Scientific expertise: Applying competition and consumer protection rules against violations of anti-discrimination laws by companies
The scientific expertise was prepared by dr. Piotr Semeniuk, affiliated with CARS, for the Office of Ombudsman.
iKAR No. 1/2018 has just been published
iKAR No. 1/2018 has just been published. It is related to sector-specific regulation in the postal market. Its editor is Dr. Mateusz Chołodecki (WPiA UAM in Poznań) who is a head of CARS Postal Market Laboratory. The majority of texts in the volume are papers delivered at the 1st Polish Postal Conference „Postal Market in a Changing World” that took place at the Management Faculty of University of Warsaw on 28 September 2017.
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CARS scientific expertise: Expert opinion on the requirements concerning durable information medium in European Union and domestic legal provisions on payment services
The expert opinion prepared by prof. Stanisław Piątek investigates legal requirements concerning the activities of providers of payment services regarding the delivery of contractual information to clients on a “durable medium”. The opinion concerns the necessary functionality of internet website used as such durable medium.
Prof. Anna Piszcz – new Editor-in-Chief of iKAR
On a proposal of CARS Director, Prof. Dr. Tadeusz Skoczny, Dean of the Faculty of Management of the University of Warsaw, Prof. Dr. Alojzy Z. Nowak, appointed – as from 1 January 2018 – Dr. Anna Piszcz, Profesor of University of Białystok, Director of the Department of Public Economic Law of the Law University of the University of Białystok, to the position of Editor-in-Chief of the internetowy Kwartalnik Antymonopolowy i Regulacyjny (iKAR).
Dr. Maciej Bernatt – new Editor-in-Chief of YARS
On a proposal of CARS Director, Prof. Dr. Tadeusz Skoczny, Dean of the Faculty of Management of the University of Warsaw, Prof. Dr. Alojzy Z. Nowak, appointed – as from 1 January 2018 r. – Dr. Maciej Bernatt from the Department of European Economic Law of the Faculty of Management of the University of Warsaw, to the position of Editor-in-Chief of the YARS®
“Competition protection in times of challenges” - 70th Anniversary of Prof. Tadeusz Skoczny, CARS Director
On 27 October 2017 the conference “Competition protection in times of challenges” - 70th Anniversary of Prof. Tadeusz Skoczny, CARS Director, was held at the Faculty of Management, University of Warsaw
State Aids and Tax rulings seminar: An assessment of the Commission's recent decisional practice
On October 9, 2017, an international scientific seminar entitled State Aids and Tax rulings: An assessment of the Commission's recent decisional practice was held at the Faculty of Management of the University of Warsaw. It was performed by prof. Amedeo Arena (University of Naples Federico II) and Dr. Łukasz Grzejdziak (University of Łódź). The seminar was attended by representatives of science, competition protection practice and UOKiK. The seminar coincided with the European Commission's decision on Amazon and was related to the subject of the next FIDE Congress.
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