POZYCJA PRAWNA MINISTRA KOORDYNATORA SŁUŻB SPECJALNYCH
THE LEGAL POSITION OF THE MINISTER-COORDINATOR OF SPECIAL SERVICES

Summary/Abstract: The legal position of the Minister-Coordinator of Special Services derives from constitutional and statutory regulations. Under these regulations, the Coordinator-Minister has the status of a task-based minister, i.e. one who does not head a department of government administration (a ministry). In constitutional practice, however, it is often ministers of internal affairs who are entrusted with coordinating the activities of the special services. In this way, a kind of personal union arises, in which one and the same member of the Council of Ministers appears in a dual role - as a departmental minister and as the task-based minister who is the Minister-Coordinator of Special Services. The decision to use such a variant of supervision over the special services, in which this supervision is exercised by a coordinator-minister or by a departmental minister, is made by the President of the Council of Ministers. As head of government, he is entitled to shape the internal organisation of the cabinet as he sees fit. It is also within the Prime Minister's purview to determine the detailed catalogue of tasks of the Minister-Coordinator of Special Services. To this end, the head of government issues a regulation transferring his supervisory powers to the minister and, at the same time, sets out a detailed catalogue of tasks for him. The Minister-Coordinator of Special Services is a member of the Council of Ministers who, like other ministers, takes part in conducting government policy, and, like other members of the government, bears joint and individual political responsibility before parliament.

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