Implementacja tzw. kamienia milowego w noweli do Regulaminu Sejmu Rzeczypospolitej Polskiej z dnia 26 lipca 2024 r.
The Implementation of the So-Called Milestone by the Amendment of 26 July 2024 to the Standing Orders of the Sejm of the Republic of Poland

Summary/Abstract: The purpose of this article is to discuss the changes to the Standing Orders of the Sejm of the Republic of Poland introduced by the amendments of 26 July 2024, which aimed to implement one of the so-called milestones set out in the Annex to the Council Implementing Decision. The text analyses the provisions that have introduced new legal constructs – namely, open public consultations on bills and the regulatory impact assessment of bills – as well as the amendments to the provisions of the Standing Orders of the Sejm of the Republic of Poland with regard to the application of the so-called fast-track procedures in legislative proceedings and proceedings to adopt resolutions. In the analysis of the first two of the above-mentioned measures, attention is drawn, inter alia, to the innovative nature of the adopted solutions and to their characteristics against the background of similar measures that were previously in force and were applied, in particular, in the course of the so-called government-initiated legislative process. As regards limitations to the so-called fast-track procedures, it is indicated that those limitations seem relatively inconsiderable, and only the observation of how the new provisions are applied in practice will show whether the use of the fast-track procedures has actually decreased. When discussing the amendments to the Standing Orders of the Sejm of the Republic of Poland, which were adopted on 26 July 2024, the authors note that the European Commission assessed them as Poland’s satisfactory fulfilment of the so-called milestone.

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