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Granice prawne bojkotu w relacjach gospodarczych
The legal boundaries of boycotts in economic relations

Author(s): Mariusz Korcyl
Subject(s): Civil Law, Law on Economics, Sociology of Law
Published by: Uniwersytet Adama Mickiewicza
Keywords: unfair competition act; boycott; hindering market access; hindering business activities; equality of competition;

Summary/Abstract: The subject of this article is an attempt to verify whether the opinions found in the doctrine and judicature allow a given act which takes the form of a boycott to be clearly classified as a manifestation of unfair competition. This is particularly important in view of the fact that the legal boundary between the so-called permitted dissemination of certain information about a given entrepreneur and the prohibited incitement is difficult to determine. A separate issue in this area is to specify whether hindering market access and the associated phenomenon of torpedoing business activity must always bear the characteristics of an act of unfair competition, and in particular a boycott.

  • Issue Year: 82/2020
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 189-201
  • Page Count: 13
  • Language: Polish