Competition law compliance is a high-profile, high-risk area of legal compliance where small mistakes at any level of everyday commercial practice can have serious consequences. Poland has had competition regulations for more than 20 years now. However, competition law suddenly became much more significant after Poland’s accession to the European Union. Recently, the new President of the Polish Competition Authority (appointed in June 2008) announced that the grace period in which businesses were expected to learn the competition law after EU accession has come to an end. It is now time to enforce the rules and one way this will be done will be by imposing higher fines on wrongdoers.

At CMS Cameron McKenna we have a dedicated six-person team dealing exclusively with competition law, which can help you with even the most complex issues. We have experience and expertise in all aspects of competition law, including anti-trust, merger control, state aid, public procurement, consumer protection and unfair competition.

Our competition lawyers specialise in advising companies from a variety of sectors, concentrating on the issues specific to a particular industry. Examples are pricing and shelf space arrangements, category management and fee-listing issues, when advising consumer products companies; access to essential facilities, long-term and capacity reservation agreements, when advising the energy, oil and gas sector, and pricing of dominant products, parallel trade and stock management systems, when working for pharma companies. CMS Cameron McKenna's thorough knowledge of a broad range of industries and our understanding of sector specific problems enables us to provide an unrivalled service to our clients.