What Are the Omnibus Penalties in Poland?

Penalties for breaching the Omnibus Directive (EU) 2019/2161 are not fixed at EU level for your store to read off. The Directive requires Member States to provide effective, proportionate and dissuasive penalties, but the actual sanctions are set nationally and applied by each country’s authority. In Poland, that authority is UOKiK — the Office of Competition and Consumer Protection.

How enforcement works in Poland

UOKiK supervises commercial practices, including the display of price reductions. Where a trader shows misleading reductions — for example, failing to display the genuine lowest price from the previous 30 days — UOKiK can investigate, require the practice to stop, and pursue enforcement measures under Polish consumer-protection law.

Because the specific level and form of any penalty is determined nationally and depends on the circumstances of a case, this FAQ deliberately keeps the consequences qualitative rather than quoting a figure. The practical point is that enforcement is real: the reference-price display has been an active area of scrutiny in Poland.

• Penalties are defined by Polish law, not by the Directive itself.
• UOKiK can order corrective action and take enforcement measures.
• The exact sanction depends on the facts and is assessed case by case.

The reliable way to stay out of trouble is not to memorise penalty levels but to get the underlying practice right: show the true lowest 30-day price, keep a defensible price history, and present it clearly in Polish. See our Omnibus law page and the complete Omnibus guide for the framework.

This answer is educational and does not constitute legal advice.