Keywords
consumer protection, collective consumer interests, commitment decisions
Abstract
The article presents the characteristic features of commitment decisions issued by the Polish competition authority in matters of practices violating collective consumer interests. The article stresses the positive effects of such decisions for undertakings as well as for the social sphere overall primarily because of the promptness and dynamics of their proceedings. Emphasized at the same time is the need to make some amendments, or additions, to existing procedural provisions or at least, to the Polish competition authority’s “soft laws”. The article contains several conclusions de lege ferenda concerning: the need to defi ne the criteria under which commitment decisions can be issued; the need to equalize, in terms of penalization, the status of decisions declaring that a violation has ceased with that of commitment decisions and fi nally; the need to introduce a procedure that makes it possible to change the manner, or deadline, in which commitments must be performed imposed in commitment decisions.
Recommended Citation
Sroczyński, J. (2012). Violations of collective consumer interests: commitment decisions (practical remarks and de lege ferenda proposals). internetowy Kwartalnik Antymonopolowy i Regulacyjny (internet Quarterly on Antitrust and Regulation), 1(1), 97-11. Retrieved from https://press.wz.uw.edu.pl/ikar/vol1/iss1/8
First Page
97
Last Page
11
Page Count
-86
Publisher
University of Warsaw
