THE BOOK

OF ANNA FORNALCZYK

„BUSINESS AND COMPETITION PROTECTION’

Oficyna Wotlrers Kluwer business

Cracow 2007

 This book is the first publication in Poland, containing consequences of competition law regulations for business. In the book readers find answers to the  following important questions:

     How to develop business without    conflicts with competition law?

    How to build company’s                competitive advantage and how     to use it without being accused     of abusing of dominant position     on the market?

    What kinds of agreements,             useful from a business’ point of     view, will not be inconsistent with     the competition law?

    What kind of conditions have to     be fulfilled for antimonopoly             agency’s positive decision about   merger or acquisition?
 
Antimonopoly regulations and jurisdictions as well as experiences of companies being active on common European market, also in Poland, are presented in the book. One of the main issues of the book have been justification of competition law enforcement from the point of microeconomics and management sciences. The book presents the author’s experiences earned in the first stage of the Polish  transformation as the  first President of Antimonopoly Office in 1990-1995 as well as experiences resulted from consulting on competition issues that has been provided  by her to big Polish and foreign companies since 1998.