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The Competition and Consumer Protection Act P 19/17

Ref. No. P 19/17

JUDGMENT
IN THE NAME OF THE REPUBLIC OF POLAND

 

Warsaw, 16 January 2019

 

 

The Constitutional Tribunal, composed of:

Leon Kieres – Presiding Judge
Justyn Piskorski – Judge Rapporteur
Julia Przyłębska
Piotr Pszczółkowski
Piotr Tuleja,

Recording Clerk – Krzysztof Zalecki,

having considered, at a hearing on 16 January 2019 – in the presence of the Sejm and the Public Prosecutor-General –a question of law referred by the Court of Appeal in Warsaw as to whether:

Article 105n(4), second sentence, of the Competition and Consumer Protection Act of 16 February 2007 (Journal of Laws – Dz. U. of 2017 item 229, as amended) is consistent with Article 45(1), Article 78 and Article 176(1) of the Constitution,

 

adjudicates as follows:

Article 105n(4), second sentence, of the Competition and Consumer Protection Act of 16 February 2007 (Journal of Laws – Dz. U. of 2018, items 798, 1637, 1669 and 2243) is inconsistent with Article 78 in conjunction with Article 45(1) of the Constitution of the Republic of Poland.

 

Moreover, the Tribunal decides:

pursuant to Article 59(1)(2) of the Act of 30 November 2016 on the Organisation of the Constitutional Tribunal and the Mode of Proceedings Before the Constitutional Tribunal (Journal of Laws – Dz. U., item 2072), to discontinue the proceedings as to the remainder.

 

The ruling was unanimous.

Leon Kieres
Justyn Piskorski
Julia Przyłębska
Piotr Pszczółkowski
Piotr Tuleja