Resale Price Maintenance in Poland – Further Steps to Its Liberalization or Stuck in a Status Quo?
Resale Price Maintenance in Poland – Further Steps to Its Liberalization or Stuck in a Status Quo?
Author(s): Dariusz AziewiczSubject(s): Business Economy / Management, Commercial Law
Published by: Wydawnictwo Naukowe Wydziału Zarządzania Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego
Keywords: consumer welfare; economic approach; Resale Price Maintenance; restrictions by effect; restrictions by object; vertical agreements
Summary/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.
Journal: Yearbook of Antitrust and Regulatory Studies (YARS)
- Issue Year: 9/2016
- Issue No: 13
- Page Range: 77-93
- Page Count: 17
- Language: English