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

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...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Dariusz Aziewicz
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: University of Warsaw 2016-07-01
Series:Yearbook of Antitrust and Regulatory Studies
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Online Access:https://yars.wz.uw.edu.pl/images/yars2016_9_13/77.pdf
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Summary: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.
ISSN:1689-9024
2545-0115