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Competition Merger Review For Cross-Border Mergers And Acquisitions In Indonesia, Zulheri Zulheri Dec 2017

Competition Merger Review For Cross-Border Mergers And Acquisitions In Indonesia, Zulheri Zulheri

Indonesia Law Review

This article aimed at expressing ideas on a legal construction of competition merger review (CMR) on Crossborder Mergers and Acquisitions (CBM&A) that have Indonesian legal dimension. The problem has been triggered by the lack of CMR guidelines for CBM&A to nurture a fair and sustainable business competition (FSBC). Consequently, the existing guideline is inadequate for reviewing CBM&A proposals which have a multi-jurisdiction dimension character. As a result, merging (gigantic) companies doing business in Indonesia have enormous opportunities to engage in anti-competitive behavior in the domestic market. In its turn, it brings the impact of reducing competition itself whereby national companies …

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100 Days Of Act On Contractual Advantage, Piotr Adamczewski Dec 2017

100 Days Of Act On Contractual Advantage, Piotr Adamczewski

internetowy Kwartalnik Antymonopolowy i Regulacyjny (internet Quarterly on Antitrust and Regulation)

The article discusses 100 days of the Act of 15th December 2016 on the unfair use of contractual advantage in the trade in agricultural and food products. The author describes the cases that the President of the Office of Competition and Consumer Protection (referred as the President of the UOKIK) is currently dealing with along with other instruments used as a tool in combating unfair practices. Next issue tackled is the cooperation of the President of the UOKiK with other relevant bodies in the context of handled cases and possible legislation process. Afterwards the author analyses the popularization of the …

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Tackling Unfair Trading Practices In The Business-To-Business Food Supply Chain – Legal Solutions In Ireland, Grzegorz Koguciuk Dec 2017

Tackling Unfair Trading Practices In The Business-To-Business Food Supply Chain – Legal Solutions In Ireland, Grzegorz Koguciuk

internetowy Kwartalnik Antymonopolowy i Regulacyjny (internet Quarterly on Antitrust and Regulation)

The article presents the Irish regulation applied to business relationships in the food supply industry aimed at tackling unfair trading practices applicable in business relationship. The historic background of adopting such rules clarifies that numerous activities have been undertaken in Ireland to achieve efficient solutions and modus operandi to regulate this matter. Subsequently, the characteristics of the adopted regulation are presented – also in comparison to the relevant Polish act – the Act on counteracting unfair abuse of contractual advantage in trading of agricultural and food products. Further, the contracting rules set by the new act for that sector are …

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Entia Non Sunt Multiplicanda Praeter Necessitate – On The Necessity Of The Enactment Of The Act On Counteracting Unfair Use Of Superior Bargaining Power In The Trade In Agricultural And Food Products, Ilona Szwedziak-Bork Dec 2017

Entia Non Sunt Multiplicanda Praeter Necessitate – On The Necessity Of The Enactment Of The Act On Counteracting Unfair Use Of Superior Bargaining Power In The Trade In Agricultural And Food Products, Ilona Szwedziak-Bork

internetowy Kwartalnik Antymonopolowy i Regulacyjny (internet Quarterly on Antitrust and Regulation)

The aim of this paper is to underline some essential doubts indicated by some authors and related to the Act on counteracting unfair use of superior bargaining power in the trade in agricultural and food products. Despite ambitious goals concerning protection of public interest and weaker parts in trade relations in agricultural and food sector the Act is considered as a source of interpretative problems, especially for entities to which it is addressed.

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Unannounced Inspections Made By The President Of The Office Of Competition And Consumer Protection – New Standard For The Gathering Of Electronic Evidence. Commentary On The Order Of The Polish Court Of Competition And Consumer Protection Of 7 March 2017, Xvii Amz 15/17, Piotr Skurzyński, Maciej Gac Dec 2017

Unannounced Inspections Made By The President Of The Office Of Competition And Consumer Protection – New Standard For The Gathering Of Electronic Evidence. Commentary On The Order Of The Polish Court Of Competition And Consumer Protection Of 7 March 2017, Xvii Amz 15/17, Piotr Skurzyński, Maciej Gac

internetowy Kwartalnik Antymonopolowy i Regulacyjny (internet Quarterly on Antitrust and Regulation)

The commentary discusses the order of the Polish Court of Competition and Consumer Protection regarding the powers of the Polish Competition Authority (the President of the Office of Competition and Consumer Protection) to search IT systems and hardware (e-mails and hard disks) during dawn raids. This order prohibits the current practice of the President of the Office of Competition and Consumer Protection, according to which electronic data is copied without prior selection and taken from the premises of the inspected undertaking for further analysis at the authority's premises. The order clearly states that the President of the Office of Competition …

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Contractual Advantage In Trade And Its Unfair Use In German And French Regulations – Tips For The Polish Case-Law And The Legislator?, Michał Roszak, Bartosz Turno Dec 2017

Contractual Advantage In Trade And Its Unfair Use In German And French Regulations – Tips For The Polish Case-Law And The Legislator?, Michał Roszak, Bartosz Turno

internetowy Kwartalnik Antymonopolowy i Regulacyjny (internet Quarterly on Antitrust and Regulation)

The article presents German and French legal solutions and laws regarding unfair use of contractual advantage. It discusses the way the definitions of market power and its abuse are understood under these jurisdictions. Also, Polish legal solutions are analysed in detail, i.e. critical interpretation of the contractual advantage definition. At the end, the Authors reflect on which German and French solutions could be transferred into the Polish law.

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The Statutory Conditions Establishing The Contractual Advantage In The Practice Of Unfair Use Of Contractual Advantage In Food And Agriculture Industry, Agnieszka Staszek, Mateusz Mroczek Dec 2017

The Statutory Conditions Establishing The Contractual Advantage In The Practice Of Unfair Use Of Contractual Advantage In Food And Agriculture Industry, Agnieszka Staszek, Mateusz Mroczek

internetowy Kwartalnik Antymonopolowy i Regulacyjny (internet Quarterly on Antitrust and Regulation)

The new Act on the unfair use of contractual advantage entered into force on 12 July 2017. This new law introduces into Polish legal system a completely new institution prohibiting the unfair use of contractual advantage in relations between the purchaser and the supplier. The article describes the statutory conditions of the existence of a contractual advantage within the meaning of the Act - which are the absence of sufficient (“wystarczających”) and real (“faktycznych”) opportunities to sell (purchase) agricultural or food products to other purchasers (from other suppliers), as well as significant economic disparity between contractors. The authors of the …

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Unfair Use Of Superior Bargaining Power By Retail Chains Against Food Suppliers – Examples Of Potentially Forbidden Practices, Antoni Bolecki Dec 2017

Unfair Use Of Superior Bargaining Power By Retail Chains Against Food Suppliers – Examples Of Potentially Forbidden Practices, Antoni Bolecki

internetowy Kwartalnik Antymonopolowy i Regulacyjny (internet Quarterly on Antitrust and Regulation)

The aim of the article is: a) presenting a list of practices which may be deemed as unfair use of superior bargaining power by retail chains against food suppliers; b) explaining how of such practices work and why they can be found as illegal.

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Effects Connected With A Finding Of Unfairness Of A Contract Term By A Court In An Incidental Proceeding, Bartosz Wyżykowski Dec 2017

Effects Connected With A Finding Of Unfairness Of A Contract Term By A Court In An Incidental Proceeding, Bartosz Wyżykowski

internetowy Kwartalnik Antymonopolowy i Regulacyjny (internet Quarterly on Antitrust and Regulation)

The article analyses regulations, as well as judical and scientific opinions in regard to the problematic aspects on how the fact that a consumer contract contains one or more unfair terms effects such a conract. The research mainly concentrates on the effects of a judgement of a competent court in the indvidual case of a consumer. Also, very important is the current judicature of the Court of Justice of the European Union and its impact on the interpretation of polish regulations in the subject matter. Morover, subject of consideration are practical difficulties as well as questions regarding the restitutory effects …

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Singapore: A Small Country With Liberal Competition Law, Konrad Kohutek Dec 2017

Singapore: A Small Country With Liberal Competition Law, Konrad Kohutek

internetowy Kwartalnik Antymonopolowy i Regulacyjny (internet Quarterly on Antitrust and Regulation)

This paper presents selected regulations of competition law in Singapore, paying particular attention to legal solutions which are different from those that are applicable in EU or Polish competition law. The issue of the concentration control in Singapore law has been omitted.

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Legal Succession In Competition Law Proceedings - Commentary To The Judgment Of The Supreme Court Of 6 April 2017, Iii Sk 15/16, Elżbieta Krajewska Dec 2017

Legal Succession In Competition Law Proceedings - Commentary To The Judgment Of The Supreme Court Of 6 April 2017, Iii Sk 15/16, Elżbieta Krajewska

internetowy Kwartalnik Antymonopolowy i Regulacyjny (internet Quarterly on Antitrust and Regulation)

The commentary summarises the judgment of the Supreme Court, who took the position that the acquiring company is a legal successor of the target company in the competition proceedings, where the decision imposing a fine was addressed to the target company but delivered already to the acquiring company. Due to lack of the specific rules in the Polish Competition Act governing legal succession, the Supreme Court strongly recommended the introduction of such rules.

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Ne Bis In Idem Principle In Competition Law – Case Report Of Polish Supreme Court’S Reference For Preliminary Ruling Of 26 September 2017 (Iii Sk 39/16), Maciej Bernatt Dec 2017

Ne Bis In Idem Principle In Competition Law – Case Report Of Polish Supreme Court’S Reference For Preliminary Ruling Of 26 September 2017 (Iii Sk 39/16), Maciej Bernatt

internetowy Kwartalnik Antymonopolowy i Regulacyjny (internet Quarterly on Antitrust and Regulation)

The Polish Supreme Court made a reference for preliminary ruling in a case involving double fine for the same anticompetitive conduct (first fine for violation of Polish competition law and second fine for violation of Article 102 TFEU). The Court asks whether the identity of interest protected can be considered as a separate condition in the context of ne bis in idem analysis. In addition, it also asks for clarification whether the national competition law where applied in parallel with Article 101-102 TFEU can be said to protect different legal interest. The reference is of importance for a uniform understanding …

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, When The Fine Is Proportional? Case Report Of Polish Supreme Court Judgement Of 13 June 2017, Iii Sk 43/16, Marcin Mleczko Dec 2017

, When The Fine Is Proportional? Case Report Of Polish Supreme Court Judgement Of 13 June 2017, Iii Sk 43/16, Marcin Mleczko

internetowy Kwartalnik Antymonopolowy i Regulacyjny (internet Quarterly on Antitrust and Regulation)

Decyzją z dnia 18 września 2006 r., nr DOK-107/06 Prezes Urzędu Ochrony Konkurencji i Konsumentów (dalej: Prezes UOKiK) na podstawie art. 9 ustawy z dnia 15 grudnia 2000 r. o ochronie konkurencji i konsumentów (t.j. Dz.U. 2005 Nr 244, poz. 2080 ze zm.; dalej: uokik) stwierdził stosowanie przez Polifarb Cieszyn – Wrocław S.A. z siedzibą we Wrocławiu (dalej: PCW), Praktiker Polska Sp. z o.o. z siedzibą w Warszawie (dalej: Praktiker), OBI Centrala Systemowa Sp. z o.o. z siedzibą w Warszawie (dalej: OBI), Castorama Polska Sp. z o.o. z siedzibą w Warszawie (dalej: Castorama), Leroy Merlin Polska Sp. z o.o. z …

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Entire Issue Vol. 6 No. 8 Dec 2017

Entire Issue Vol. 6 No. 8

internetowy Kwartalnik Antymonopolowy i Regulacyjny (internet Quarterly on Antitrust and Regulation)

Vol 6(8)

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New Uokik Mission – Combating Unfair Use Of Superior Contractual Power, Maciej Bernatt Dec 2017

New Uokik Mission – Combating Unfair Use Of Superior Contractual Power, Maciej Bernatt

internetowy Kwartalnik Antymonopolowy i Regulacyjny (internet Quarterly on Antitrust and Regulation)

From the Editor

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Table Of Contents Dec 2017

Table Of Contents

internetowy Kwartalnik Antymonopolowy i Regulacyjny (internet Quarterly on Antitrust and Regulation)

Table of contents

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Whatever Happened To Quick Look?, Edward D. Cavanagh Dec 2017

Whatever Happened To Quick Look?, Edward D. Cavanagh

University of Miami Business Law Review

In California Dental Ass’n v. F.T.C. (hereafter “Cal Dental”), the Supreme Court observed that there is no sharp divide separating conduct that can be summarily condemned under section one of the Sherman Act as per se unlawful from conduct that warrants a more searching factual assessment to ascertain any anticompetitive effect and hence its legality. The Court further observed that not every antitrust claim falling outside the narrow ambit of per se illegality warrants the detailed Rule of Reason analysis prescribed in Chicago Board of Trade. The Court thereby eschewed any notion that section one analysis is …

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Were The 1982 Merger Guidelines Old News?, Alan J. Meese, Sarah L. Stafford Dec 2017

Were The 1982 Merger Guidelines Old News?, Alan J. Meese, Sarah L. Stafford

Faculty Publications

This paper examines the impact of the 1982 Department of Justice Merger Guidelines on the stock market prices of publicly traded firms in the United States. We argue that those Guidelines were perceived by the market as a real change in enforcement policy that would result in substantial deregulation of mergers throughout the economy. We conduct an event study of S&P 500 firms to test this hypothesis and find evidence of a significant positive effect on the stock prices of firms in moderately concentrated industries subject to antitrust regulation, the firms for which the 1982 Guidelines articulate a substantially less …

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Foxes At The Henhouse: Occupational Licensing Boards Up Close, Rebecca Haw Allensworth Dec 2017

Foxes At The Henhouse: Occupational Licensing Boards Up Close, Rebecca Haw Allensworth

Vanderbilt Law School Faculty Publications

The dark side of occupational licensing-its tendency to raise prices to consumers with dubious effects on service quality, its enormous payout to licensees, and its ability to shut many willing workers out of the workforce-has begun to receive significant attention. But little has been said about the legal institutions that create and administer this web of professional entry and practice rules. State-level licensing boards regulate nearly one-third of American workers, yet, until now, there has been no systematic attempt to understand who serves on these boards and how they operate. This Article undertakes an ambitious and comprehensive study of all …

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Text Messages From A Computer – How To Classify [This?] Electronic Communications Service. Comments On Efta Court Judgment Of 22 December 2016, Case No E-6/16, Jakub Woźny Nov 2017

Text Messages From A Computer – How To Classify [This?] Electronic Communications Service. Comments On Efta Court Judgment Of 22 December 2016, Case No E-6/16, Jakub Woźny

internetowy Kwartalnik Antymonopolowy i Regulacyjny (internet Quarterly on Antitrust and Regulation)

Kwalifikacja prawna usług z pogranicza łączności elektronicznej i społeczeństwa informacyjnego od lat nastręcza wielu problemów. Szybki rozwój technologiczny prowadzi do postępującego zacierania się granicy między usługą przesyłu sygnału a usługą świadczoną w oparciu o ten przesył. Problem wywołał w istocie unijny prawodawca, który, dążąc do zapewnienia elastyczności stanowionych rozwiązań prawnych, oparł definicję usługi łączności elektronicznej na niedookreślonych pojęciach. Wskutek tych okoliczności całkowicie odmiennym reżimom regulacyjnym podlegają usługi, które w codziennej praktyce okazują się praktycznie nieodróżnialne. Budzi to sprzeciw świadczących je podmiotów. W kontekście takich sporów zaczęły jednak zapadać w ostatnich latach orzeczenia sądów, stopniowo rozstrzygające narastające wątpliwości.

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Entire Issue Vol. 6 No. 7 Nov 2017

Entire Issue Vol. 6 No. 7

internetowy Kwartalnik Antymonopolowy i Regulacyjny (internet Quarterly on Antitrust and Regulation)

Vol 6(7)

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Certified Mechanism Of Monitoring Internet Access Service Quality, Stanisław Piątek Nov 2017

Certified Mechanism Of Monitoring Internet Access Service Quality, Stanisław Piątek

internetowy Kwartalnik Antymonopolowy i Regulacyjny (internet Quarterly on Antitrust and Regulation)

The article analyses legal, technical and organizational conditions related to the establishment of certified mechanisms of monitoring internet access service quality in EU Member States in connection with the provisions of EU Regulation 2015/2120. Certified mechanisms are necessary in order to allow consumers to take advantage of the presumption of an inappropriate service performance by a service provider in case of discrepancies between the measurements results and the quality requirements set out in the service contract. The article analyses the nature of the obligation of providers concerning service quality, effects of performing the measurements, making use of the certified mechanism, …

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From The Editor, Stanisław Piątek Nov 2017

From The Editor, Stanisław Piątek

internetowy Kwartalnik Antymonopolowy i Regulacyjny (internet Quarterly on Antitrust and Regulation)

From the Editor

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Response By The President Of Uke To Enquiries Made By Telecommunications Enterprises Regarding Their Entry Into The Register Of Telecommunications Enterprises, Justyna Michalak-Królicka Nov 2017

Response By The President Of Uke To Enquiries Made By Telecommunications Enterprises Regarding Their Entry Into The Register Of Telecommunications Enterprises, Justyna Michalak-Królicka

internetowy Kwartalnik Antymonopolowy i Regulacyjny (internet Quarterly on Antitrust and Regulation)

The article presents the prerequisites for assessing the existence of the obligation of the President of UKE, as a body of central government administration, to respond to the enquiries of a telecommunications enterprise about satisfying the conditions of entry into the register of telecommunications enterprises, taking into account the nature of the services which that entrepreneur is planning to provide. In order to determine the sources of the obligation of the President of UKE to reply to the enquiries of a telecommunications enterprise regarding the interpretation of legal rules applicable to telecommunications activities, the article presents an analysis of the …

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Legal Regulations On Media Ownership In Selected European Union Countries, Jędrzej Skrzypczak Nov 2017

Legal Regulations On Media Ownership In Selected European Union Countries, Jędrzej Skrzypczak

internetowy Kwartalnik Antymonopolowy i Regulacyjny (internet Quarterly on Antitrust and Regulation)

This paper deals with the issue of media pluralism and media ownership by presenting relevant regulations in selected EU countries.

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Processing Personal Data By Online Service Providers. Comments To The Judgment Of The European Court Of Justice Of 19 October 2016, Case No C-582/14, Tadeusz Piątek Nov 2017

Processing Personal Data By Online Service Providers. Comments To The Judgment Of The European Court Of Justice Of 19 October 2016, Case No C-582/14, Tadeusz Piątek

internetowy Kwartalnik Antymonopolowy i Regulacyjny (internet Quarterly on Antitrust and Regulation)

Wniosek o wydanie orzeczenia w trybie prejudycjalnym został złożony przez niemiecki Federalny Trybunał Sprawiedliwości (dalej: Bundesgerichtshof) i dotyczy wykładni art. 2 lit. a i art. 7 lit. f dyrektywy 95/46/WE Parlamentu Europejskiego i Rady z dnia 24 października 1995 r. w sprawie ochrony osób fizycznych w zakresie przetwarzania danych osobowych i swobodnego przepływu tych danych (Dz.U. 1995, L 281, s. 31) (dalej: dyrektywa). Problem powstał na tle sporu pomiędzy Patrickiem Breyerem a Republiką Federalną Niemiec w przedmiocie rejestrowania i przechowywania przez państwo adresu protokołu internetowego (dalej: adres IP) Patricka Breyera (dalej: użytkownik) podczas przeglądania przez niego wielu stron internetowych niemieckich …

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Amberg, Information And Communication Technologies In Health Care – Infringement Of Privacy Issues, Ewa M. Kwiatkowska, Małgorzata Skórzewska-Amberg Nov 2017

Amberg, Information And Communication Technologies In Health Care – Infringement Of Privacy Issues, Ewa M. Kwiatkowska, Małgorzata Skórzewska-Amberg

internetowy Kwartalnik Antymonopolowy i Regulacyjny (internet Quarterly on Antitrust and Regulation)

The article concerns issues of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) in the health care sector. The legal concepts used in the discussed field are presented. Threats related to the protection of sensitive data, including information on patients’ health, are highlighted. The state of the computerization of health care in Poland has been analyzed in the context of the forthcoming introduction of the obligation to create medical records in an electronic form.

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Legal Rules On Cookie Files And The Protection Of Personal Data Of The Internet User, Małgorzata Olszewska Nov 2017

Legal Rules On Cookie Files And The Protection Of Personal Data Of The Internet User, Małgorzata Olszewska

internetowy Kwartalnik Antymonopolowy i Regulacyjny (internet Quarterly on Antitrust and Regulation)

The objective of the study is to indicate the relationship between legal rules contained in provisions on personal data protection and in telecommunications law with relation to legitimate use of software installed on user devices (called in English ‘cookies’). The subject of the article is to show applicable legal rules in the context of the reform of the legal framework of the European Union on the protection of personal data, with particular attention to the way information is provided and consent [from the users] obtained, by those service providers that are obliged to do so.

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Regulation Of The Council Of Ministers On The Requirements And Ways Of Ensuring The Conditions Of Access And Recording Of Telecommunications Transmission And Data, Maciej Rogalski Nov 2017

Regulation Of The Council Of Ministers On The Requirements And Ways Of Ensuring The Conditions Of Access And Recording Of Telecommunications Transmission And Data, Maciej Rogalski

internetowy Kwartalnik Antymonopolowy i Regulacyjny (internet Quarterly on Antitrust and Regulation)

This article analyzes the draft of the Regulation of the Council of Ministers on the requirements and manner of providing access and recording conditions for telecommunications data and data transmission and types of telecommunications activities or types of telecommunications undertakings not subject to this obligation. This project will finally replace the Regulation of the Council of Ministers of 13.9.2005 on the fulfillment by telecommunications undertakings of duties and obligations for defense, state security and public order. Two issues are the subject of the analysis in this paper, both of which have important practical significance. First, the scope of the exemption …

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Retention And Transfer Of Telecommunications Metadata), C.H. Beck, Warszawa 2016, Daniel Szmurło Nov 2017

Retention And Transfer Of Telecommunications Metadata), C.H. Beck, Warszawa 2016, Daniel Szmurło

internetowy Kwartalnik Antymonopolowy i Regulacyjny (internet Quarterly on Antitrust and Regulation)

Retention and transfer of telecommunications metadata, C.H. Beck, Warszawa 2016 (reviewed by Daniel Szmurło)

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