Act on Counteracting Unfair Use of Contractual Advantage in the Trade in Agricultural and Food Products: Diversity or Uniformity of the Objectives of its Adoption? Cover Image

Ustawa o przeciwdziałaniu nieuczciwemu wykorzystywaniu przewagi kontraktowej: różnorodność czy jednolitość jej celów?
Act on Counteracting Unfair Use of Contractual Advantage in the Trade in Agricultural and Food Products: Diversity or Uniformity of the Objectives of its Adoption?

Author(s): Piotr Laskowski
Subject(s): Economic policy, Law on Economics, Commercial Law
Published by: Oficyna Wydawnicza KA AFM
Keywords: unfair misuse of competitive advantage; contractual advantage; food supply chain; cultivation contract; the uneven distribution of risk; the food supplier; SME; trade network;

Summary/Abstract: In the following article the issue of the purpose of the Act of 15 December 2016 on prevention of the unfair misuse of competitive advantage in the trade in agricultural and food products has been described. The article attempts to answer the query concerning the cohesion of those purposes, complementarity and the conflict in their structural assumptions. Apart from enumerating and discussing the purpose of adopting this act, the case law has been presented which enables to estimate if the presented purposes are the ones which are implemented in the process of executing the law. The subject of the article are not only the practical issues connected with the basic assumptions implemented in the Polish legislation but also the comparative law analysis, how other nationalities defi ne the purposes of their laws concerning the prevention of the unfair misuse of competitive advantage, but also estimating the level of their harmonisation with the EU competition law. In the summary of the article conclusions and the final evaluation of the purposes of the legislature were presented.

  • Issue Year: 24/2019
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 203-219
  • Page Count: 17
  • Language: Polish