Keywords
prohibited agreements, competition, medical self-government, homeopathy, Supreme Doctors Council, OCCP, iKAR
Abstract
The article discusses the effects of rulings issued by the Court of Competition and Consumer Protection (SOKiK) and the Court of Appeal concerning homeopathy upon the scope of the powers of medical self-government to regulate markets. The author provides an analysis of these powers on the basis of competition law, since the latter intersects with pharmaceutical law and laws regulating the professional activities of doctors. The author draws attention to the fact that depriving the competition authority – the UOKiK President – of the power to scrutinize the activities of professional self-government bodies may lead to adverse effects for competition and consumers protection. These would consist of the limitation of the freedom of market access of undertakings as well as limit consumers’ free choice to access legally sold products and services.
Recommended Citation
Sroczyński, J. (2016). Dispute about homeopathy (or who rules the market?). internetowy Kwartalnik Antymonopolowy i Regulacyjny (internet Quarterly on Antitrust and Regulation), 5(8), 111-121. https://doi.org/10.7172/2299-5749.IKAR.8.5.9
First Page
111
Last Page
121
Page Count
10
DOI
10.7172/2299-5749.IKAR.8.5.9
Publisher
University of Warsaw
