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2008-01-24
Aquisition cleared
Circus may acquire CTL Logistic, decided Marek Niechciał, President of the Office of Competition and Consumer Protection. The application for clearance was filed in November 2007
2008-01-09
New law – new possibilities
Bogus price reductions, pressure selling, quoting incomplete prices – these and other unfair commercial practices influence our purchase decisions. Now there is an answer to the abuses of trust and deliberate misleading of consumers.
2008-01-09
PKP Cargo pays
PKP Cargo will pay over PLN 50 million to the State budget for violating the antimonopoly law. The fine was imposed by the President of the Office of Competition and Consumer Protection in 2004
2007-12-24
Telekomunikacja Polska fined
Poland’s biggest telecoms operator has to pay PLN 75 mln for discriminating competitors on the Internet services market, ruled the President of the OCCP. The practice has been applied for a few years. The decision is to be implemented immediately
2007-12-12
New consumer policy strategy
Development of ADR and ODR systems, plus intensive investigations of standard contracts, especially in the new technology sectors, are among the priorities of the Consumer Policy Strategy for 2007–2009, adopted by the Council of Ministers on 5 December
2007-11-29
State aid in 2006
Nearly PLN 6 bln of state aid was given to undertakings in Poland in 2006. It is over a billion more than the previous year, reads a report prepared by the OCCP and adopted on 27 November 2007 by the Council of Ministers
2007-11-12
Takeover of Gdańsk Shipyard Cleared
The Donbass Group is allowed to take over the Gdańsk Shipyard. According to the President of the Office of Competition and Consumer Protection the transaction is not going to affect competition on the market
2007-11-07
A fine of PLN 50 million for the insurance giant
The practices of PZU Życie concerning employee group insurance violate the law, ruled Marek Niechciał, President of the Office of Competition and Consumer Protection, and imposed a fine of over PLN 50 million on the company
2007-11-07
A fine of almost PLN 20 million for TP EMITEL
The President of the Office of Competition and Consumer Protection found that TP EmiTel, subsidiary of Telekomunikacja Polska and the owner of TV and radio transmission stations, had discriminated against public broadcasters for many years
2007-10-17
Artists under protection
The OCCP has been looking at the practices of copyright protection organizations for a couple of years now. It has also been monitoring the phonographic market. Consequently, yet another antitrust proceedings have been initiated against ZAIKS
