Dr hab. Mariusz Swora of the Chair in Public Economic Law at the JU Faculty of Law and Administration was presented with the ERRA Regulatory Research Award at a gala held on 27 October 2014 in Baku. The scholar was given this prestigious prize in recognition of his paper written together with Prof. Jacek Kamiński from the Mineral and Energy Economy Research Institute of the Polish Academy of Sciences, in a competition for the best research paper from the field of energy regulation.

The Polish scholars were awarded for their study concerning wholesale energy market and the regulatory instruments aimed at ensuring its liquidity and transparency. Their paper received best grades from ten international energy market experts from Europe and the USA, who assessed its theoretical and practical value. The solutions analysed by the Polish researchers can serve as a model for regulatory systems in the area of de-monopolisation and liberalisation of energy markets in other countries.

Dr hab. Mariusz Swora's research interests focus on public economic law, including energy law, competition law, as well as administrative law and procedure. He is an author and co-author of more than 130 publications from these areas, in both Polish and English, and a winner of the 2011 award of the Polish Chamber of Commerce for Electronics and Telecommunications, given to people who have specially contributed to the development of telecommunication, electronics and energy market in Poland. Mariusz Swora is a member of the programme board of the consortium Smart Power Grids-Poland, based in Wrocław. In 2007 he took part in the de-concentration and decentralization of public administration in Romania, as a consultant to the Romanian Government. He was also a member of the task force whose aim was to draft the Romanian administrative procedure code.

The Energy Regulators Regional Association is an international organization founded in 1991, comprised of independent energy regulatory bodies from 36 countries from America, Asia, Africa, and Europe. One of  the major objectives of ERRA Regulatory Research Award is to foster interdisciplinary research on energy regulation, carried out by the experts in law, finance, technology and accounting. 

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