Niezgodność wyrobu budowlanego z deklaracją właściwości użytkowych jako praktyka wprowadzająca w błąd co do właściwości produktu – uwagi na tle decyzji Prezesa UOKiK z dnia 4 października 2019 r. (DOZiK-6/2019)
Non-conforming declarations of performance on construction products as a misleading practice relating to product performance – discussion based on Polish regulator’s decision of 4 October 2019 (DOZiK-6/2019)

Summary/Abstract: The article discusses the decision of the Polish competition and consumer protection authority (Prezes UOKiK) of 4 October 2019 (DOZiK-6/2019) regarding the unfair commercial practice of marketing certain construction products (XPS foam boards) that do not have declared performance characteristics. The way the decision was argued shows when Prezes UOKiK, as the horizontal competition and consumer protection authority, intervenes in cases which are, or have been, dealt with in parallel by sectorial regulators (such as the building supervision inspectors, whether provincial or the Chief Building Supervision Inspector), using public documents collected by them. The article discusses how to construe the term ‘unfair commercial practice’ where certain technical or professional information given by an undertaking about its product’s performance is false. The article also considers the penalties applied in the regulator’s decision of 4 October 2019 in the context of the need to remove the continuing effects of the unfair commercial practice.

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