Rola Rządowego Centrum Legislacji w procesie tworzenia rządowych projektów aktów prawnych
The role of the government legislative centre in the process of creating governmental drafts of legal acts

Summary/Abstract: The Government Legislative Centre (GLC) was established on 1 January 2000 on grounds of inter alia for that purpose modified Act on Council of Ministers of 8 August 1996 (Journal of Laws No 24, item 199, as amended). It is a state organizational unit governed by the Prime Minister. Government Legislative Centre is a organizationally independent and self-financing unit, financed from the national budget directly, as well as ministries and central offices. GLC was established with the purpose to overcome negative consequences of “departmentalization” in governmental proceeding of creating law, yet not with the aim to take over the whole governmental legislation from the departments. GLC ensures the coordination of legislation activity of the Council of Ministers, the Prime Minister and the others governmental administration offices, and provides legal services to the Council of Ministers, in particular: works out legal and legislative positions to governmental drafts of legal acts; coordinates the setting process of governmental drafts of legal acts, including the assessment of socio-economic effects of proposed regulations; works out in legislative respect governmental drafts of legal acts, which are referred to examine by the Council of Ministers, including their assessment in legal and editorial respect, done by the Legal Commission headed by GLC; works out governmental drafts of legal acts within the scope stipulated by the Prime Minister; edits the Journal of Law of Republic of Poland and ‘Polish Monitor’ Official Gazette of the Republic of Poland; operates together with the Committee of European Integration on harmonizing polish law with the requirements of the law in European Communities; operates together with the Legislative Council on providing opinions on the conformity of governmental drafts of legal acts with the Constitution of Republic of Poland and the cohesion with the legal system; controls rules laid down by governmental administration offices for implementation of legal acts; executes other tasks stipulated in separate provisions or indicated by the Prime Minister. The coordination of legislative activity of the Government leads the tasks of GLC. GLC also devises fully autonomously normative acts, yet only on the of- ficial order of the Prime Minister or the Chef of the Chancellery of the Prime Minister acting on his behalf. GLC is entrusted with drafting a normative act usually when - due to legal reasons, e.g. need to resolve in the project complex and complicate problems of legal nature or, less often, due to other reasons - difficulties appeared while the draft was worked out by a competent Minister.

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