What is citizenship? This concept was not, and is not, defined in the Polish legal system, as in the legal systems of other countries. Characterizing its legal essence, several features are indicated: citizenship is a legal bond established by the internal law of a state linking a natural person to that state; this legal bond […]

After months of prolonged work on a draft Polish law to apply the ECSP Regulation in our country, on the 7th of July 2022, the Parliament passed the Act on Crowdfunding for Business Ventures and Borrower Assistance (the “Act”). In the past week, the Act was signed by the President of Poland and promulgated in […]

Continuing the series of articles on crowdfunding in the area of commercial projects, in this entry we will focus on key aspects related to the EU regulation providing a uniform legal framework for crowdfunding in the European Union. We also encourage you to read the previous article in this series presenting a general outline of […]

The crowdfunding services sector is one of the most dynamically developing areas of the financial market globally, including Poland. The interest in this form of financing is growing year by year, causing the results of successive years to be a multiple of the results of the previous years. The size of the global crowdfunding market […]

The Act of May 28, 2021 on amending the act – the Code of Civil Procedure and certain other acts (Journal of Laws of 2021, item 1090), in addition to controversial changes regarding the existing rules for handling cases in civil, criminal and administrative court proceedings and the rules for delivery of letters to professional […]

A new, interesting trend of institutional rental (PRS) has appeared on the Polish real estate market, taken from the most developed markets in Europe, such as Germany, Switzerland and the Netherlands. In Poland, we are witnessing an early stage of development of this sector, to which the COVID-19 pandemic undoubtedly contributed, causing, among other things, […]

An outline planning decision (the “WZ decision”) is a key element of any construction project carried out in an area which is not covered by a local spatial development plan. The decision contains information determining whether it is possible to execute an investment with specific parameters on a particular plot, being the subject of the application. […]

Since the beginning of the Act of March 27, 2003 on spatial planning and development, there have been doubts as to which extent an application for a building permit should correspond to the content of the relevant outline planning decision. While there are no major doubts that the building permit should meet the parameters specified in […]