News

Experimentalist Competition Law, ASCOLA webinar, 16.04, 10.00 hrs

We kindly invite you to the webinar concerning the book "Experimentalist Competition Law and Regulation of Markets" by Yane Svetiev. The webinar, with participation of the  author, Yane Svetiev (University of Sydney) will take place on coming Friday, April 16 at 10.00.  Dr hab. Krystyna Kowalik-Bańczyk, judge at the EU Court and Damien Gerard (University of Louvain) will be commenting the discussion.

The webinar is organized as part of the cooperation between the ASCOLA Central Europe Chapter operating at CARS WZ UW and ASCOLA South East Europe Chapter . Details on the webinar can be found here.

Conference: Implementation of ECN+ Directive in Poland - towards a more effective application of competition law?

Centre for Antitrust and Regulatory Studies and the UOKiK (Polish Competition Authority) organized on 2 March 2021 a joint conference: Implementation of ECN+ Directive in Poland - towards a more effective application of competition law? Almost 3,100 people from Poland, the USA, Germany, UK, the Netherlands, Austria and Ecuador registered and watched the conference. We kindly invite you to read the conference materials.

See more

iKAR, vol. 2020, 8(9) published

It is our pleasure to inform that iKAR vol. 2020, 8(9) is published : https://ikar.wz.uw.edu.pl/

Issue 8 (9) / 2020, devoted to the regulation of the rail transport sector is edited by Dr Michał Będkowski-Kozioł and Łukasz Gołąb from the Faculty of Law and Administration of the Cardinal Wyszyński University in Warsaw and Dr Magdalena Knapp from the Faculty of Law of the University of Białystok.

Internetowy Kwartalnik Antymonopolowy i Regulacyjny on the MEiN list

We would like to inform you that the Internet Antimonopoly and Regulatory Quarterly (IKAR®) was included in the list of scientific journals and reviewed materials from international conferences published by the Minister of Education and Science and obtained 20 points. We cordially invite you to publish your articles.

Yearbook of Antitrust and Regulatory Studies (YARS®) on the MEiN list

We would like to inform you that the Yearbook of Antitrust and Regulatory Studies (YARS®) was included in the list of scientific journals and reviewed materials from international conferences published by the Minister of Education and Science and obtained 40 points. YARS is indexed in Legal Sciences, Management Sciences and Economics. We cordially invite you to publish your articles.

The position of CARS on the bill implementing the ECN + Directive

CARS prepared a position on the bill of 14 January 2021 amending the Act on Competition and Consumer Protection related to the implementation of the Directive 2019/1 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 11 December 2018 (ECN + Directive) in Poland. The position is available here: The position of CARS on the bill implementing the ECN + Directive

Expert opinion: Coordinated effects of horizontal concentrations

CARS has prepared an Expert Opinion devoted to coordinated effects of horizontal concentrations. The Expert Opinion contains a legal analysis of chosen problems relating to the review by competition authorities of horizontal concentrations with coordinated effects. The Expert Opinion was authored by Profesor Maciej Bernatt and Professor Agata Jurkowska-Gomułka. The legal framework of the analysis extends over the EU and the Polish legal system of competition protection (legal provisions, decisional practice and jurisprudence). The analysis considered the axiology of concentration control rules, the conditions of a prohibition of horizontal concentrations, evidentiary standards in decisions prohibiting such concentrations as well as judicial control over such decisions. See more

International workshop "Governing European values inside data flows"

A paper co-authored by Laura Zoboli entitled 'Embedding European values in data governance: a case for public data' will be presented on January 29 at the International workshop "Governing European values inside data flows" organized by the Amsterdam Centre for European Studies, the Institute of Information Law (University of Amsterdam) and the University of Lucerne. 

Conference "Machine Lawyering - Human Sovereignty and Machine Efficiency in the Law"

On 15 January 2021, Laura Zoboli, together with her co-author Cristina Poncibò, took part in a panel on Data, Network Effects and Competition, within the conference "Machine Lawyering - Human Sovereignty and Machine Efficiency in the Law" organised by the Chinese University of Hong Kong. The program of the conference can be consulted here.

iKAR, vol. 2020, 5(9) published

It is our pleasure to inform that iKAR vol. 2020, 4(9) is published : https://ikar.wz.uw.edu.pl/

5/2020 was edited by dr hab. Grzegorz Materna, prof. INP PAN, the head of the Competition Law Department at the Institute of Legal Sciences of the Polish Academy of Sciences. The leading topic of the fifth issue of iKAR in 2020 is soft law regulations and its role in competition law.