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Umer Protection UOKiK), which receives and analyzes signals from the market and supervises the behavior of entrepreneurs. The office has a wide range of powers and can sometimes impose very high financial penalties. The Act is amended cyclically, in today's publication we will refer to the latest change. Amendment to the Act on Competition and Consumer Protection The last change in the regulations came into force on May , . The amendment was dictated by the need to implement EU regulations into national regulations.
The main goal of the changes introduced is to increase the effectiveness of enforcement philippines photo editor of EU competition rules on the internal markets of all EU countries. Some changes are of an orderly and clarifying nature, others introduce new rules that entrepreneurs will have to face. Below we will describe only some of the introduced regulations, the knowledge of which will be helpful for entrepreneurs. Providing information to the President of the Office of Competition and Consumer Protection Before the change in regulations, the President of the Office of Competition and Consumer.
Protection could request the provision of documents and information, for this purpose he sent a letter to the entrepreneur. After the change, this rule did not change, but the group of people to whom such a request could be addressed was expanded. Currently, the President may also submit such a request to natural persons who do not run a business, as well as to legal persons and organizational units that are not legal persons, to provide information and documents indicated in the letter.
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