Motions filed via e-mails

1-10-2009

Pursuant to the Polish Administrative Procedure Code, applications (understood as any kind of statements) i.a. motions may be filed with public administrative authorities not only in writing but also via e-mails. Applications filed in electronic form should bear a safe electronic signature verified with a valid qualified certificate.
In its recent judgment, the Voivodship Administrative Court in Warsaw (II SAB/Wa 57/09) obliged the General Inspector for Personal Data Protection to examine a motion filed via e-mail.
The judgment supports an earlier judgment issued in 2007 by the Voivodship Administrative Court in GdaĹ„sk  (II SAB/Gd 25/2007). In 2007 the Court decided that a motion for making public information available filed in the electronic form should institute the proceedings in the case even though it did not bear a safe electronic signature. The fact that a motion is not properly signed does not cause the motion to be ineffective but is only a formal defect which should be repaired at the authority’s request.

Contact: Mirosław Stefanik,

ms@pnplaw.pl

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