SRC Law Firm won five court cases against the President of the Energy Regulatory Office concerning penalties imposed under the Act on Extraordinary Measures to Limit Electricity Prices and Provide Support to Certain Consumers in 2023\u20132025, regarding the Price Difference Payment Fund.<\/p>\n\n
The court upheld the appeals filed by our firm and overturned the contested decisions imposing penalties, accepting our arguments and departing from a strict application of the Act in favor of a purposive interpretation.<\/p>\n\n
These disputes were among the first to be heard in court and the first in which the court ruled in favor of the energy companies. Publicly available information indicates that the few court proceedings conducted so far in other cases in this area have, to date, resulted in a victory for the President of the Energy Regulatory Office and the court\u2019s recognition of the validity of the imposed penalty.<\/p>\n\n
– These cases have shown that even in a highly specialized dispute before the Court of Competition and Consumer Protection, the courts are moving away from a strict, purely formal application of the law and punishment in favor of examining the actual economic effects of the delay and the purpose of the law, condemning the lack of diligence on the part of the legislature and the automatic approach on the part of the Energy Regulatory Office –<\/em>\u00a0comments attorney Alicja Pop\u0142onkowska, a partner at SRC Law Firm, who represented energy companies in the cases.<\/p><\/p>\n\n These disputes were the first of over a hundred that our law firm handles on behalf of energy companies. Meanwhile, the President of the Energy Regulatory Office has already initiated hundreds of proceedings against energy companies nationwide to issue decisions imposing penalties and ordering payment of the difference between the contribution to the Price Difference Payment Fund calculated by the President of the Energy Regulatory Office and the contribution resulting from the reports submitted by the companies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" SRC Law Firm won five court cases against the President of the Energy Regulatory Office concerning penalties imposed under the Act on Extraordinary Measures to Limit Electricity Prices and Provide Support to Certain Consumers in 2023\u20132025, regarding the Price Difference Payment Fund. The court upheld the appeals filed by our firm and overturned the contested […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":2385,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"off","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2373","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-src-litigation"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/srclaw.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2373","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/srclaw.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/srclaw.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/srclaw.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/srclaw.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2373"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/srclaw.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2373\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2374,"href":"https:\/\/srclaw.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2373\/revisions\/2374"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/srclaw.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2385"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/srclaw.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2373"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/srclaw.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2373"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/srclaw.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2373"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}