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The Ministry of Economy developed a draft of an act on helping the poor, who will pay lower receipts for electricity by ca. 1/3. Ca. PLN 130 million from the national budget will be provided for this kind of support.
On May 20 the Speaker of the Sejm (performing the President’s duties) signed the act on supporting development of telecommunication services and networks, the main purpose of which is to ensure that access to telecommunication in Poland will be developed.
On May 20, 2010 the first reading of the draft act on amendment to the Civil Code took place in the Sejm.
Pursuant to the planned change to the Act on National Bank of Poland, after the term of office of the President of NBP has expired, (s)he will perform the duties until the moment when the new President of NBP takes them over.
On May 11, the government accepted the draft of changes to the Act on Creating Polish Agency for Enterprise and Development (PARP), which will be directed to the Parliament.
In accordance with the latest verdict of the Supreme Court an employee may demand from his/her employer a compensation for an accident at work, even if the employee’s state of health deteriorated as a result of a stressing interview with the superior and not of an accident per se.
The institution of a state enterprise is deemed as a remnant of the age of communism.
At the end of April the Parliament adopted a change to the Act on Tourist Services.
In the seating of May 7, 2010 the Sejm dealt with amending the Act on Tax Inspection.
In connection with the signals received from consumers, UOKiK [Office for Competition and Consumer Protection] inspected the biggest mobile phone operators who offer their products and services by way of tele-sale and internet.
The Act amending the Act on Making Available Information on Environment and Its Protection (...) as well as some other acts which was accepted by the Sejm on April 29, 2010 stipulates a number of facilitations.
The draft amendments to the provisions which are to increase the use of electronic invoices in commercial trading are currently in preparation.
On May 1, 2010 new provisions of the Regulation (EC) No 883/2004 of the European Parliament and of the Council of April 29, 2004 on the coordination of social security systems (Journal of Laws EU L 200 of June 7, 2004) have come into force, thereby annulling earlier ordinances within this scope.
The Senate prepared a draft of an amendment to the Construction Law.
On March 11, 2010 a convention on avoiding double taxation signed in Helsinki on June 8, 2009 by Poland and Finland came into force.
Public benefit organisations do not have to take part in the tender procedure obligatory for concluding contracts on usufruct, tenancy or lease of real estates owned by the State Treasury
On March 12, 2010 new legislation came into force which amends the Act on Waste.
New legislation proposes to abolish an obligation to provide administrative authorities with certificates.
Pursuant to the resolution regarding compensation for non- or malperformance of a contractual obligation should be examined in a simplified procedure if the value of dispute does not exceed PLN 10,000.
Voivodship Administrative Court in Warsaw issued a verdict which is very important to tax-payers who grant loans to their foreign partners.
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