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Seminarium CARS "State Aids and Tax rulings: An assessment of the Commission’s recent decisional practice"
Observing the latest changes in Brussels, CARS is organizing a seminar "State Aids and Tax rulings: An assessment of the Commission's recent decisional practice" on October 9, with the participation of prof. Amedeo Arena (University of Naples Federico II) and Dr. Łukasz Grzejdziak (University of Łódź).
Antitrust volume 5/2017 of ‘internet Quarterly on Antitrust and Regulation’ (iKAR) is already available
Volume 5/2017 is dedicated to the new phenomena and tendencies in the field of competition protection. The journal has been edited by dr. hab. Agata Jurkowska-Gomułka, prof. WSIiZ, Chair of the Administrative Law, University of Information Technology and Management in Reszow. Feel free to have a look at the journal.
1. Annual CARS National Railway Conference
From 2017, CARS will organize a national railway conference each year. 1. The CARS Annual National Railway Conference will be held on November 30, 2017. We invite you to submit abstracts and participate in the conference.
Call for Papers
New CARS’s Publication: Implementation of the EU Damages Directive in Central and Eastern European Countries.
The newest – 24th – Publication from the CARS Series “Textbooks and Monographs”: Implementation of the EU Damages Directive in Central and Eastern European Countries. Edited by Anna Piszcz, Warsaw 2017, University of Warsaw Faculty of Management Press has just been published in the paper form.
The boo can be bought at Księgarnia Wydziałowa Tomasz Biel, PL – 02-678 Warszawa, ul. Szturmowa 3; tel. (+48) 22 822-90-42; fax (+48) 22 823-64-67; e-mail:
CARS open research project.
Instruments and effects of counteracting the unfair use of contractual advantage in trade in agricultural and food products (2017).
If you are interested in participating in this project, please send an email to
We are happy to announce that CARS Award 2017 was granted to Prof. Filip Elżanowski
Among the nominees were also Dr. Ewa Galewska, Dr. Łukasz Grzejdziak, Dr. Rafał Nagaj and Prof. Adam Szafrański, The Funder of CARS Award 2017 was Polish Bank PKO BP.
The latest (20) scientific opinion of CARS: Qualification of financing railway station investments from public funds, including the EU, in terms of the presence of public aid within the meaning of Art. 107 paragraph. 1 TFEU - update (2017)
The report is the current version of expert report No. 17 ( see below ). Expert opinion No. 17 has been updated in connection with changes in Polish law and the issuing by the European Commission of new guidelines on the application of state aid rules to financing infrastructure projects. These changes did not affect the final findings made in the expert opinion.
CARS Annual Railway Transport Conference
The first national CARS conference concerning new regulations in the field of railway transport ("Railway Transport Challenges ahead") will be held on 30th November 2017.
The CARS Railway Transport Conference will be organized every year. We kindly invite you to submit abstracts and to participate in the Conference.
Yearbook of Antitrust and Regulatory Studies 2016, 9(14)
A new volume of Yearbook of Antitrust and Regulatory Studies edited by prof. Anna Piszcz has just been released. The table of contents and abstracts of all the articles are available on http://www.yars.wz.uw.edu.pl/ The creation of the English-language version of this publication is financed in the framework of contract No. 768/P-DUN/2016 by the Ministry of Science and Higher Education committed to activities aimed at the promotion of education. The book is available for purchase at:
- Księgarnia EKONOMICZNA Kazimierz Leki Sp. z o.o.
02-094 Warszawa, ul. Grójecka 67
- Faculty Bookstore Tomasz Biel
02-678 Warszawa, ul. Szturmowa 3
We are after Supraśl 2
On 29-30 June 2017 2nd International Conference on the Harmonisation of Private Antitrust Enforcement: A Central and Eastern European Perspective organized by the Law Faculty of the University of Białystok and CARS took place in Supraśl. It was devoted to the effects of the implementation of the so-called Damages Directive (2014/104/EU) in Central and Eastern European countries. The preliminary plan of the organisers is that the 3. conference in the series shall take place in 2019 or 2020.
In this year’s conference 35 participants took part, including 11 foreign guests (Czech Republic, Estonia, Lithuania, Latvia, Slovakia, Slovenia and Hungary were represented). The participants received a book published by CARS titled Implementation of the EU Damages Directive in Central and Eastern European Countries, edited by Anna Piszcz, Warsaw 2017, University of Warsaw, Faculty of Management Press. The book contains national reports which describe the implementation of the so-called Damages Directive and covers all the eleven EU Member States from Central and Eastern Europe. The book can be purchased from Faculty Bookshop Tomasz Biel, PL – 02-678 Warszawa, Street Szturmowa 3; tel. (+48) 22 822-90-42; fax (+48) 22 823-64-67; e-mail:
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