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The paper is concerned with the law and governmental protection of the position of a consumer in Poland. The main purpose is the identification and evaluation of activities undertaken by governmental institutions engaged in consumer policy. The paper defines the set of tasks of governmental institutions and the main relations between them is the aspect of antimonopoly law. First of all the focus is put on the issue of protection of economic consumer rights. The results show that the model of consumer protection is overdeveloped when it comes to law and administrative changes and underdeveloped in the consumer education aspect.