A workshop meeting on judicial review of decisions of the President of the Office of Competition and Consumer Protection, with particular emphasis on evidentiary issues, organised by the Discussion Forum of Practitioners of Competition and Consumer Law (Forum) and the Centre for Antitrust and Regulatory Studies of the Warsaw University (CARS) was held on 14 March 2023.
As part of the workshop, in the first part, Prof. Marek Kolasinski (UMK, Soltysiński, Kawecki & Szlęzak) and Prof. Maciej Bernatt, Ph.D., UW (CARS) spoke. This was followed by a panel discussion moderated by mec. Krzysztof Kanton (Sołtysiński, Kawecki & Szlęzak) and attended by Dr Małgorzata Kozak (Utrecht University), Dr Dominik Wolski (GWSH), mec. Robert Gago (Greenberg Traurig), Dr Joanna Mazur (CARS) and former President of the UOKIK Adam Jasser (CARS).
The speakers and panellists paid particular attention to the issues of:
- the practice of judicial review of the UOKIK President's decisions and their functional environment,
- analysis of the case law from 2004-2021,
- comparison of solutions functioning in the Polish system with the EU standards,
- the specifics of proceedings concerning digital markets.
