Ustawa o lobbingu i perspektywy jej realizacji
The act on lobbying activities and the perspectives of its realisation

Summary/Abstract: In the legislative process, on 7 July 2005 the Sejm (the lower chamber of the Polish parliament) passed the Act on Lobbying Activities, which came into force on 7 March 2006. In the article are analysed the circumstances which brought about preparations in the Sejm of III and IV term of the bills regulating the principles of lobbying activities and in this context was examined the legislative object of the passed bill. Further is discussed the range of regulations contained in the six chapters of the act. Analysed in detail are the transparency principles of lobbying activities and the mechanisms which function in their realisation, among other things are discussed making drafts of legislative acts available to public and carrying out public hearings. The legal articles which regulate the principles of professionally conducted lobbing activities, the control over them and the act which provides for sanctions for violations, are elaborated. Next, the catalogue of issues which may hinder application of the act and achieving anticipated objectives is formulated. Since, as the author claims, the Act on Lobbing Activities constitutes legislative experiment, then when its regulations come into force, it will become an experiment itself in the scope of its application in the practical, public and political relations.

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