Rules of procedure in matters related to business activity regulated by the law on entrepreneurs

Abstract

The Act of 6 March 2018: Law on Entrepreneurs regulates the rules connected with undertaking and performing economic activity in a very different way than it was done pursuant to the previously binding Act of 2 July 2004 on Freedom of Economic Activity. The provisions on the procedure concerning the relations between public administration and entrepreneurs are to a large extent a new matter of public economic law. The procedural rules are included in Chapter I: General provisions and Chapter III: Settlement of matters related to economic activity. Some of the rules repeat the general principles of administrative proceedings regulated in the Code of Administrative Procedure (Article 28 of the Act and Article 7b of the Code of Administrative Procedure). In this way, the Act: Law on Entrepreneurs transfers the basic principles (values, ideas) of the Constitution of the Republic of Poland (Article 12) to the area of public economic law. The
Act also regulates a number of new rules, including those that express ideas which are included for the first time in the form of binding legal norms. A specific example is the principle of trust in the entrepreneur (Article 10[1]), which articulates a new standard in relations between public administration and the entrepreneur. The regulation of this principle strengthens procedural guarantees for entrepreneurs. Despite the fact that the rules of conduct regulated in the Law on Entrepreneurs do not constitute a coherent set, due to their universal character and the rank and place of this Act in the area of public commercial law, they may serve as a normative basis for procedural public commercial law.