Polish Aid

Polish Aid is Polish development cooperation implemented by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs on the basis of the Development Cooperation Act of September 16, 2011. The MFA implements activities in cooperation with governmental bodies, social organizations and local entities in partner countries as well as within the framework of international organizations. They are planned in a multi-annual perspective - the current strategic document is “Multi-Annual Development Cooperation Program for 2021-2030. Solidarity for Development”. The operational documents are annual Development Cooperation Plans which define, among other things, the specific forms of cooperation as well as the amount of funds allocated to each priority country or to a given development cooperation task. 

UOKiK in Polish Aid project for Moldova and Ukraine (2023)

From April to December 2023, UOKiK has been implementing the project “Institutional assistance to antimonopoly offices in Ukraine and Moldova”, co-financed by the Polish Aid program of the Polish Ministry of Foreign Affairs. The beneficiary of the cooperation is the Moldovan Competition Council (CC) and the Antimonopoly Committee of Ukraine (AMCU).

Within the framework of the project, the following activities have been planned for Moldovan and Ukrainian experts:

• May 2023 - workshop in Chisinau on state aid, competition law and communications;
• June 2023 - workshop in Chisinau on planning and conducting antitrust investigations, detection of cartels and bid-rigging, and contractual advantage;
• September 2023 - expert internships in UOKiK’s branch offices in Bydgoszcz and Poznań in the formula of job shadowing; 
• November 2023 - study visit to UOKiK’s branch office in Łódź and workshop in Warsaw on market research, monitoring and digital markets.

These initiatives are intended to institutionally support the CC and AMCU in competition law and state aid enforcement. Their announcement came as part of the regional cooperation agreement signed at the Office's headquarters on April 18, 2023 by the heads of 10 antitrust offices from Central and Eastern Europe. 

See more

• Press release regarding the May workshop
• Press release regarding the June workshop
• Multi-Annual Development Cooperation Program for 2021-2030. Solidarity for Development