Polish Business Law

Name: Polish Business Law
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Zdzislaw Brodecki(Herausgeber*in)

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Cover
Half Title Page
Title Page
Copyright Page
Table of Contents
TABLE OF INTERNATIONAL AGREEMENTS
TABLE OF STATUTES
TABLE OF CASES
LIST OF REPERTORIES
PREFACE
ABOUT THE AUTHORS
Part One: Legal Environment of Business
CHAPTER 1 GENERAL: THE REPUBLIC OF POLAND
1.1. BACKGROUND AND HISTORY
1.1.1. An Historic Overview
1.1.2. Population and Religion
1.1.3. Poland's Historical Regions
1.1.4. T he Baltic Sea - An Area of Co-operation
1.2. REVOLUTIONARY CHANGES IN POLAND
1.2.1. Changes Following the Fall of Communism
1.2.2. Economic and Social Reforms
1.2.3. Stability of Institutions
1.3. INTERNATIONALISATION AND EUROPEANISATION OF POLISH LAW
1.3.1. The Relationship between Municipal and International Law
1.3.2. EC Law and Polish Legal Order
CHAPTER 2 THE POLITICAL SYSTEM OF THE REPUBLIC OF POLAND
2.1. INTRODUCTION
2.2. PARLIAMENT
2.2.1. Composition
2.2.2. Powers
2.3. THE PRESIDENT
2.4. THE COUNCIL OF MINISTERS
2.5. LOCAL SELF-GOVERNMENT
2.6. THE JUDICIARY
2.6.1. Courts
2.6.2. The Constitutional Tribunal
2.6.3. The State Tribunal
2.6.4. Ombudsman
2.6.5. Courts' Registers
2.7. LEGAL PROFESSION
2.7.1. Introduction
2.7.2. The Polish Legal Profession
2.7.3. Accounting Professions
CHAPTER 3 THE POLISH JUDICIAL SYSTEM AND LEGAL PROCEDURE
3.1. INTRODUCTION
3.2. THE CIVIL COURTS
3.2.1. First Instance Courts
3.2.2. Procedure
3.2.3. Pleadings
3.2.4. Evidence
3.2.5. Judgements
3.2.6. Appeals
3.3. COSTS OF LITIGATION
3.4. ARBITRATION
3.4.1. General Remarks
3.4.2. Costs
3.4.3. Proceedings at the National Chamber of Commerce Arbitration Court
3.5. ENFORCEMENT OF DOMESTIC AND FOREIGN JUDGEMENTS AND ARBITRATION AWARDS
3.5.1. Introduction
3.5.2. Execution Proceedings
3.5.3. Enforcement and Recognition of Foreign Judgements
3.5.4. Enforcement of Arbitration Awards
CHAPTER 4 CONFLICT OF LAWS
4.1. INTRODUCTION
4.2. INTERNATIONAL RULES ON JURISDICTION
4.2.1. Jurisdiction under the Lugano Convention
4.2.2. Jurisdiction under the Polish Civil Procedure Code
4.3. PROROGATION OF JURISDICTION
4.3.1. Prorogation of Jurisdiction Under the Lugano Convention
4.3.2. Prorogation of Jurisdiction under the Polish Civil Procedure Code
4.4. DEROGATION OF JURISDICTION
4.4.1. Derogation of jurisdiction in international agreements
4.4.2. Derogation of Jurisdiction in the Code of Civil Procedure
4.5. THE APPLICABLE LAW IN INTERNATIONAL DISPUTES
4.5.1. Marriage
4.5.2. Family Relations
4.5.3. Guardianship and Curatorship
4.5.4. Succession
4.5.5. Contractual Obligations
4.5.6. Tortious Liability
4.5.7. Corporate Liability
4.5.8. Bills of Exchange and Cheques
4.5.9. Ownership and Other Property Rights
Part Two: Firm and Its Law
CHAPTER 5 COMPANY LAW
5.1. CONDUCTING BUSINESS ACTIVITY
5.1.1. Introduction
5.1.2. Freedom to Conduct Commercial Activity
5.1.3. Concessions and Permits
5.1.4. Foreign Entrepreneurs
5.1.5. Branch Offices and Representative Offices
5.2. COMMERCIAL CAPITAL COMPANIES
5.2.1. Introduction
5.2.2. The Types of Commercial Capital Companies
5.2.3. Company Names
5.2.4. Share Capital
5.2.5. The Formation of a Company
5.2.6. The Advantages and Disadvantages of Forming an Sp. z o.o. or SA
5.2.7. Shares
5.2.8. Pledge and Usufruct of the Shares
5.2.9. Share Transfers
5.2.10. Shares Held by the Company Itself
5.2.11. Position of Shareholders
5.2.12. Minority Shareholder and Majority Shareholder Rights
5.2.13. Personal Rights
5.2.14. Shareholders' Obligations
5.2.15. Shareholders Meetings
5.2.16. Void and Voidable Resolutions
5.2.17. Financing a Company
5.2.18. Debt Finance
5.2.19. Minimum Capital and Profit Distribution
5.2.20. The Management Board
5.2.21. The Supervisory Board
5.2.22. Loans to Management Board Members and Other Officers
5.2.23. Balance Sheet and Profit and Loss Statements
5.2.24. Dissolution and Liquidation of the Company
5.2.25. Mergers, Divisions and Transformations of Capital Companies and Partnerships
5.3. PARTNERSHIPS
5.3.1. Introduction
5.3.2. Registered Partnerships
5.3.3. Professional Partnership
5.3.4. Limited Partnership
5.3.5. Limited Joint-Stock Partnership
CHAPTER 6 REAL ESTATE AND CONSTRUCTION LAWS
6.1. INTRODUCTION
6.2. RIGHTS IN PROPERTY
6.2.1. Full Ownership
6.2.2. Neighbourhood Law
6.2.3. Joint Ownership
6.2.4. Ownership of Independent Premises
6.2.5. Perpetual Usufruct
6.2.6. Mortgage
6.2.7. Simple Usufruct
6.2.8. Servitudes
6.2.9. Co-operative Rights
6.2.10. Rights in Personam: Leases and Similar Agreements
6.2.11. Operating and Financial Leasing
6.3. REAL ESTATE REGISTERS
6.3.1. Mortgage Register ('Eternal Books')
6.3.2. Land Register
6.4. ACQUISITION OF REAL ESTATE
6.4.1. Acquisition by Contract
6.4.2. Acquisition by Foreign Parties
6.4.3. Other Restrictions on the Acquisition of Real Estate
6.4.4. Acquisition From the State Treasury and Local Authorities
6.4.5. Other Forms of Acquisition
6.5. EXPROPRIATION AND RE-PRIVATISATION
6.5.1. Expropriation
6.5.2. Re-Privatisation
6.6. ADMINISTRATIVE CONSTRAINTS OF REAL ESTATE DEVELOPMENT
6.6.1. Zoning Regulations and Local Master Plans
6.6.2. Development of Retail Schemes
6.6.3. Other General Constraints
6.6.4. Land Subdivision
6.6.5. Planning Permits
6.6.6. Building Permits
6.6.7. Procedural Aspects of Securing Planning and Building Permits
6.6.8. Occupancy Permits
CHAPTER 7 CONTRACTS AND TORTS
7.1. CONTRACT LAW
7.1.1. Introduction
7.1.2. Basic Categorisation of Contracts
7.1.3. Capacity to Enter into a Contract
7.1.4. Agency
7.1.5. Conclusion of a Contract
7.1.6. Preliminary Contracts
7.1.7. Letters of Intent
7.1.8. The Contents and Form of a Contract
7.1.9. Performance of Contractual Obligations
7.1.10. Expiry of Contracts
7.1.11. Protection of a Creditor in the Event of the Debtor's Insolvency
7.2. TORTS
7.2.1. Introduction
7.2.2. Prerequisites of Tortious Liability
7.2.3. Principles of Liability
7.2.4. Liability for Acts and Omissions
7.2.5. Liability of the State Treasury, State Legal Entities and Municipialities
7.2.6. Liability for Harm Caused by Third Parties
7.2.7. Liability for Damages Caused by Animals or Other Property
7.2.8. Liability for Damages Caused by Natural Disasters and the Use of Natural Forces
7.2.9. Avoidance of Immitent Damage
7.2.10. Other Miscellaneous Examples of Liability
7.2.11. Defences to Tortuous Liability
7.2.12. The Extent of the Tortfeasor's Obligation to Redress Tortious Harm
7.2.13. Limitations on the Duty to Redress Tortious Harm
7.2.14. Coincidence of Tortious and Contracted Liability
7.2.15. Limitation of Actions
CHAPTER 8 BANKING LAW
8.1. INTRODUCTION
8.2. THE BANKING SECTOR
8.2.1. Establishing a Bank
8.2.2. Establishing a Branch
8.2.3. E-Banking
8.2.4. Specialised Banks
8.3. MERGER REGULATIONS, LIQUIDATION AND BANKRUPTCY
8.3.1. Mergers
8.3.2. Liquidation
8.3.3. Bankruptcy
8.4. BANKING SUPERVISION
8.4.1. Organisation of Banking Supervision
8.4.2. Scope of Banking Supervision
8.4.3. Forms and Means of Banking Supervision
8.5. THE POLISH CENTRAL BANK
8.5.1. General Remarks
8.5.2. Monetary Policy
8.5.3. Foreign Exchange Control
8.6. BANKING SERVICES
8.6.1. General Remarks
8.6.2. Loans
8.6.3. Bank Accounts
8.6.4. Bank Guarantees
8.7. SPECIAL ENFORCEMENT RIGHTS
CHAPTER 9 INSURANCE
9.1. INTRODUCTION
9.2. INSURANCE COMPANIES: FORMS AND BASIC PRINCIPLES OF OPERATION
9.2.1. General
9.2.2. Joint Stock Insurance Companies
9.2.3. Mutual Insurance Companies
9.2.4. Main Branch of a Foreign Insurance Company
9.3. ACCESS TO INSURANCE BUSINESS (REQUIREMENTS AND PROCEDURES)
9.3.1. General
9.3.2. Joint Stock Companies
9.3.3. Mutual Insurance Companies
9.3.4. Main Branches of Foreign Insurance Companies
9.4. FINANCIAL ASPECTS OF CONDUCTING INSURANCE ACTIVITY
9.4.1. Capitals and Assets of Insurance Companies
9.4.2. Technical Underwriting Reserves
9.4.3. Investment Policy of Insurance Company Assets
9.4.4. Accountancy and Insurance Companies
9.4.5. Taxation of Insurance Companies
9.5. CONSOLIDATION OF INSURANCE INDUSTRY
9.5.1. Merger of Insurance Companies
9.5.2. Transfer of Insurance Portfolios
9.6. REDRESSING PROCEDURES, LIQUIDATION AND BANKRUPTCY OF INSURANCE COMPANIES
9.6.1. Redressing Procedures
9.6.2. Liquidation of Insurance Companies
9.6.3. Bankruptcy
9.7. SUPERVISION OF INSURANCE COMPANIES
9.7.1. Organisation of Insurance Supervision
9.7.2. Scope of Insurance Supervision
9.7.3. Forms and Legal Means of Insurance Supervision
9.8. INSURANCE INTERMEDIARIES (AGENTS AND BROKERS)
9.8.1. General
9.8.2. Insurance Agents
9.8.3. Insurance Brokers
9.9. INSURANCE CONTRACTS
9.9.1. General Remarks
9.9.2. Insurable Risks and Interests
9.9.3. Executing Insurance Contracts
9.9.4. Indemnity Value and the Insured Sum
9.9.5. Obligations of the Insured
9.9.6. Obligations of the Insurer
9.9.7. Subrogation
9.9.8. Third-Party Insurance
9.9.9. Termination of Insurance Contracts and Limitation of Actions
9.9.10. Limitation Periods
9.9.11. Reinsurance Contracts
9.10. DIFFERENT TYPES OF INSURANCE
9.10.1. Non-Life Insurance
9.10.2. Life Insurance
CHAPTER 10 PUBLIC TRADING IN SECURITIES
10.1. INTRODUCTION
10.2. PUBLIC OFFERINGS OF SECURITIES
10.2.1. Approval of the Securities Commission
10.2.2. The Prospectus
10.2.3. Prospectus Delivery
10.2.4. Placement of Equity Securities
10.2.5. Placement of Debt Securities
10.3. TRADING MARKETS
10.3.1. The Warsaw Stock Exchange (WSE)
10.3.2. Admission of Securities to Trading
10.3.3. Introduction of Securities to Trading
10.3.4. Exchange Transactions
10.3.5. Trading System
10.3.6. Acquisition of Blocks of Shares: Public Tenders
10.3.7. Threshold Reporting
10.4. TRADING
10.4.1. Regulation of Brokers
10.4.2. Market Animators
10.5. SECURITIES PROCESSING
10.5.1. The National Depository of Securities
10.5.2. Settlement of Stock Exchange Transactions
10.6. FOREIGN INVESTMENT RESTRICTIONS
10.6.1. Restrictions on Investments
10.6.2. Method of Purchase
10.6.3. Foreign Exchange Regulations
10.7. REPORTING REQUIREMENTS
10.7.1. Periodic Reporting
10.7.2. Ongoing Disclosure
CHAPTER 11 TAX LAW
11.1. CORPORATE PROFITS TAX
11.1.1. Tax Payers
11.1.2. Income
11.1.3. Tax-deductible and Non-Tax Deductible Costs
11.1.4. Tax Depreciation of Assets
11.1.5. Tax Years, Tax Advances and Final Tax Computation
11.1.6. Profit and Loss
11.1.7. Mergers
11.1.8. Income from Dividends Paid by Polish Companies
11.1.9. Taxation of Foreign Entities
11.2. PERSONAL INCOME TAX
11.2.1. Tax Payers
11.2.2. Calculation of Personal Income Tax
11.2.3. The Various Sources of an Individual's Income
11.3. VALUE ADDED TAX
11.3.1. General Information
11.3.2. Tax Payers
11.3.3. VAT Exemptions
11.3.4. Tax Point
11.3.5. Basis of Taxation
11.3.6. VAT Rates
11.3.7. Input VAT - Taxpayer's Right of Recovery
11.3.8. VAT-Payer Obligations
11.4. EXCISE TAX
CHAPTER 12 INTERNATIONAL TRADE AND SHIPPING
12.1. INTERNATIONAL TRADE
12.1.1. Preferencial Trade Relations
12.1.2. Polish Customs Law
12.2. REGISTRATION OF SHIPS
12.2.1. Introduction
12.2.2. Ship's Nationality
12.2.3. Obligations of Vessels with Polish Nationality
12.2.4. Bareboat-Out
12.2.5. Polish Register of Ships
12.2.6. Mortgages
12.2.7. Measurement of Vessels
12.2.8. Ship's Documents
12.2.9. Safety Standards
12.2.10. Classification Societies
CHAPTER 13 BANKRUPTCY LAW
13.1. INTRODUCTION
13.2. SCOPE OF THE LAW
13.2.1. Bankruptcy in an International Context
13.3. BANKRUPTCY PETITION
13.3.1. Capacity in Bankruptcy
13.3.2. Capacity to be Bankrupt
13.3.3. Capacity to Begin Bankruptcy Proceedings
13.3.4. Filing Bankruptcy Petition
13.3.5. Adjudication of Bankruptcy Petitions
13.4. THE EFFECTS OF COMMENCING BANKRUPTCY PROCEEDINGS
13.4.1. Effects for the Bankrupt
13.4.2. Effects for the Bankrupt's Estate
13.4.3. The fate of a Bankrupt's Obligations
13.5. INEFFECTIVE OR VOIDABLE ACTS OF A BANKRUPT
13.5.1. Ineffective Dispositions by Operation of Law
13.5.2. Different Types of Ineffective Dispositions
13.5.3. Mutual Contracts
13.6. BANKRUPTCY PROCEEDINGS
13.6.1. The Bankruptcy Court and Supervising Judge
13.6.2. Powers of the Official Receiver
13.6.3. Participants of Bankruptcy Proceedings
13.6.4. Arrangement Proceedings
13.6.5. Current Deficiencies in Polish Bankruptcy Laws
Part Three: Protective Policy
CHAPTER 14 PROTECTION OF COMPETITION AND CONSUMERS
14.1. INTRODUCTION
14.2. POLISH COMPETITION LAW
14.3. ANTI-COMPETITIVE AGREEMENTS
14.3.1. Commercial Agreements
14.3.2. Definition of an Agreement
14.3.3. Restriction of Competition
14.3.4. Agreements of Minor Importance
14.3.5. Block Exemptions
14.3.6. Individual Exemptions
14.3.7. Association Agreement
14.3.8. Invalidity
14.3.9. Fines
14.4. ABUSE OF A DOMINANT POSITION
14.4.1. Dominant Position
14.4.2. Abuse of a Dominant Position
14.4.3. Invalidity and Fines
14.5. LEGAL REMEDIES
14.5.1. Antimonopoly Proceedings
14.5.2. Claims for Damages
14.5.3. Individual Consumer Action
14.6. CONTROL OF CONCENTRATIONS
14.6.1. Notifiable Concentrations
14.6.2. Deadline for Notification
14.6.3. Suspension Before Clearance
14.6.4. Decisions
14.6.5. Exemptions
14.6.6. Consequences of Breach
14.7. ANTIMONOPOLY AUTHORITIES
14.7.1. President of the Office for the Protection of Competition and Consumers
14.7.2. Antimonopoly Court
14.8. UNFAIR COMPETITION
14.8.1. General Definition
14.8.2. Acts Constituting Unfair Competition
14.8.3. Advertising
14.8.4. Bribery of a Public Officer
14.8.5. Enforcement
14.9. CRIMINAL LIABILITY
14.10. STATE AID
14.10.1. Definition and Forms of State Aid
14.10.2. Admissibility
14.10.3. Monitoring
14.10.4. Duties of Entrepreneurs
14.10.5. Special Economic Zones
14.11. CONSUMER PROTECTION
14.11.1. The Definition of a Consumer
14.11.2. Consumer Contracts
14.11.3. Product Liability
14.11.4. Right to Information
14.11.5. Enforcement of Consumer Rights
CHAPTER 15 INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY LAW
15.1. INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHTS UNDER POLISH LAW - GENERAL REMARKS
15.2. AUTHORITY FOR INDUSTRIAL PROPERTY RIGHTS
15.3. PATENTS
15.3.1. Applying for and Granting Protection
15.3.2. Transfer and Licensing
15.3.3. Patents and Employees
15.3.4. Patents in Pharmaceutical Business
15.4. UTILITY MODELS
15.5. INDUSTRIAL DESIGNS
15.6. TRADE MARKS
15.6.1. Application and Granting of Trademarks
15.6.2. Transfer and Licensing
15.6.3. Indications of Origin
15.6.4. Application and Granting of Indications of Origin
15.6.5. Transfer and Licensing
15.7. COPYRIGHT AND NEIGHBOURING RIGHTS
15.7.1. General
15.7.2. Transfer and Licensing
15.7.3. Neighbouring Rights
15.7.4. Derivative Rights
15.7.5. Draft law on Amendments to the Act
15.8. TOPOGRAPHY OF SEMI-CONDUCTOR PRODUCTS
15.9. DISPUTES IN RELATION TO INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHTS
15.9.1. Claims under Act
15.9.2. Disputes in Relation to Copyright
15.10. CRIMINAL LIABILITY FOR INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY INFRINGEMENTS
15.10.1. Penal Liability under the Act
15.10.2. Penal Liability under the Act
CHAPTER 16 LABOUR LAW AND SOCIAL INSURANCE
16.1. LABOUR LAW
16.1.1. Introduction
16.1.2. Employment Contracts
16.1.3. Employer's Duties
16.1.4. Employee's Duties
16.1.5. Workplace and Remuneration By-Laws
16.1.6. Working Conditions
16.1.7. Equal Status of Men and Women at Work
16.1.8. Special Protection for Women
16.1.9. Collective Employment Relations
16.1.10. Work Permits
16.1.11. Towards the European Union
16.2. SOCIAL INSURANCE
16.2.1. Introduction
16.2.2. Social Insurance
16.2.3. Contributions to Social Insurance
16.2.4. Social Insurance Benefits
16.2.5. Sickness Insurance
16.2.6. Accident and Occupational Diseases Insurance
16.2.7. Health Insurance
CHAPTER 17 PROTECTION OF THE ENVIRONMENT
17.1. INTRODUCTION
17.2. POLICIES AND PROGRAMS CONCERNING THE PROTECTION OF THE ENVIRONMENT
17.3. PERMIT REQUIREMENTS
17.4. ENFORCEMENT OF POLISH ENVIRONMENTAL LEGISLATION
17.5. BASIC PRINCIPLES OF THE POLISH ENVIRONMENTAL LAW
17.6. ACCESS TO ENVIRONMENTAL INFORMATION
17.7. PARTICIPATION BY THE PUBLIC IN ADMINISTRATIVE PROCEEDINGS RELATED TO THE ENVIRONMENT
17.8. ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT
17.8.1. General Remarks
17.8.2. Plan and Programmes
17.8.3. In Transboundary Context
17.9. PERMIT REQUIREMENTS FOR BUSINESSES
17.9.1. General Rules
17.9.2. IPPC - Related Installations
17.9.3. Non-IPPC Related Installations
17.9.4. Prevention of Accidents
17.9.5. Transboundary Movement of Waste
17.10. PARTICULAR APPROACHES TO ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION
17.10.1. Substances
17.10.2. Products
17.11. LANDFILL PROJECTS
17.11.1. Establishment
17.11.2. Operation
17.11.3. Post Closure Obligations
17.12. CONTAMINATED LAND
17.12.1. Definition of the Contaminated Land
17.12.2. Scope of Obliged Persons
17.12.3. Scope of the Clean-up Obligation
17.12.4. Exclusions
17.12.5. The Register of Contaminated Land
17.13. TRANSITIONAL PROGRAMMES FOR NON-COMPLYING COMPANIES
17.13.1. Scope of Eligible Businesses
17.13.2. Conditions and Requirements
17.13.3. Procedure
17.14. FINANCIAL AND LEGAL INSTRUMENTS
17.14.1. General Rules
17.14.2. Fees for the Use of the Environment
17.14.3. Increased Fees
17.14.4. Administrative Fines
17.14.5. Deferment, Reduction and Remission of Increased Fees for the Use of the Environment and Administrative Fines
17.14.6. Product and Deposit Charges
17.15. LIABILITY
17.15.1. Administrative Liability
17.15.2. Civil Liability
17.15.3. Penal Liability
17.16. FUNDS FOR ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AND WATER MANAGEMENT
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
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