Resale Price Maintenance in Poland - Further Steps to Its Liberalization or Stuck in a Status Quo?

Authors

Dariusz Aziewicz, LL.M. in Comparative law (University of Florida), PhD candidate, Department of European Economic law, Faculty of Management, University of WarsawFollow

Keywords

consumer welfare, economic approach, Resale Price Maintenance, restrictions by effect, restrictions by object, vertical agreements

Abstract

Due to the recognition of their positive market effects, the evolving approach to minimum or fixed resale price maintenance (RPM) creates, in many countries, the requirement of analyzing their true economic outcomes. In the light of newest judgments delivered by the Polish Supreme Court, the purpose of this article is to analyze if it is still justified to qualify RPM as a multilateral practice that restricts competition ‘by object’ under Polish law.

Recommended Citation

Aziewicz, D. (2016). Resale Price Maintenance in Poland - Further Steps to Its Liberalization or Stuck in a Status Quo?. Yearbook of Antitrust and Regulatory Studies, 9(13), 77-94. https://doi.org/10.7172/1689-9024.YARS.2016.9.13.4

First Page

77

Last Page

94

Page Count

17

DOI

10.7172/1689-9024.YARS.2016.9.13.4

Publisher

University of Warsaw

Publication Date

2016-06-30