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