AMERICAN AND
EUROPEAN SYSTEM
OF COMPETITION PROTECTION
July 6, 2006
Office of Competition and Consumer Protection
Warsaw, Pl. Powstańcσw Warszawy 1
Seminar organized by the Office of Competition and Consumer Protection
and Chicago-Kent College of Law within the co-operation
between the Polish and Ukrainian antimonopoly offices
10.00 10.20 Welcome coffee and registration
I. OPENING SESSION
10.20 10.30 Presentation of the project Information sharing in pre-accession Ukraine: Between Government Agencies and Between Government and Business
Prof. Richard Warner, Chicago-Kent College of Law
10.30 10.40 Competition protection system in Poland and the competence of
the OCCP President
Agnieszka Kałdonek, International Relations and Communication Department, Office of Competition and Consumer Protection
10.40 11.00 Presentation of the structure of the Federal Trade Commission
Prof. Harold Krent, Chicago-Kent College of Law
11.00 11.15 Competition protection system in Ukraine and basic powers of the Antimonopoly Committee of Ukraine
Liudmyla Liashenko, State Commissioner of the Antimonopoly Committee of Ukraine
II. AMERICAN AND EUROPEAN LEGAL AND PRACTICAL EXPERIENCE WITH RESPECT TO COMPETITION RESTRICTING PRACTICES
Monopolistic practices
11.15 11.45 American model of competition protection and presentation of relevant case studies
James C. Hamill, Senior Counsel for International Affairs, Office of General Counsel, Federal Trade Commission
11.45 12.15 Abuse of dominant position in the scope of acquis communautaire and the Polish antimonopoly law
Paweł Marecki, Department of Legal Affairs and European Jurisprudence, Office of Competition and Consumer Protection
12.15 12.45 The status of monopolistic company within the Ukrainian legal
framework, presentation of relevant case study
Alla
Kryuk,
Head of the Department for Research and Investigation
of Kharkiv Territorial Office of the Antimonopoly Committee of Ukraine
12.45 13.30 LUNCH
Prohibited agreements
13.30 14.00 Presentation of the leniency program in the USA together with relevant case studies
Agnieszka Cenzartowicz, East-West Management Institute, Partners for Financial Stability (PFS) Program
Igor Solodovnik, Chicago-Kent College of Law
14.00 14.15 Leniency program in European and Polish competition protection law
Dominik Piejko, Legal Affairs and European Jurisprudence Department, Office of Competition and Consumer Protection
14.15 14.30 Normative base of control of concerted practices (cartels)in Ukraine
Liudmyla Liashenko, State Commissioner of the Antimonopoly Committee of Ukraine
14.30 14.45 COFFEE BREAK
Sector regulation with respect to competition law
14.45 15.30 Presentation of the Polish sector regulation
Jarosław Sroczyński, Sołtysiński, Kawecki & Szlęzak law firm
Robert Guzik, Deputy Director of Competition Promotion Department, Energy Regulatory Office (URE)
Grzegorz Pięta, Department of Retail Electronic Communications Market, Office of Electronic Communications (UKE)
15.30 15.45 System of regulation of natural monopolies in Ukraine
Liudmyla Liashenko, State Commissioner of the Antimonopoly Committee of Ukraine
III. JUDICIARY SYSTEM IN THE SCOPE OF COMPETITION PROTECTION
15.45 16.00 Antimonopoly jurisdiction in Poland
Dariusz Sielicki, Judge, Ministry of Justice
16.00 16.15 Presentation of the Ukrainian judicary system
Igor Osyka, National University of Internal Affairs (Kharkov)
16.15 Closing remarks