LOBBYING IN THE POLISH LEGAL SYSTEM AND PRACTICE
LOBBYING IN THE POLISH LEGAL SYSTEM AND PRACTICE

Summary/Abstract: Dictionary of the Polish language, defines lobbying as exerting influence on state authorities in the interests of certain political, economic or social groups. With its genesis, this phenomenon, which has its origins in ancient times, it was already then that individual social groups sought to exert the greatest possible influence on legislative decisions, not shying away from lawlessness. However, conceptually, lobbying originated in the United Kingdom, where the word is used to describe activities undertaken in a place - a lobby. At the same time, the most developed is restively lobbying in the United States or the European Parliament. In Poland, lobbying was regulated by law in the Act of July 7, 2005 on lobbying activities in the lawmaking process (Kubiak, 2013, pp. 131-132). Thus, since then, lobbying has been a legally regulated institution. Since then, however, the number of lobbyists in parliament has been declining, and this is to such a state that, if the current trend continues, lobbyists in the parliament of the Republic of Poland will disappear altogether in the coming years. This state of affairs forces one to ask whether it is the case that lobbyists in Poland have ceased their activities, or whether it is the case that their activities have taken a less transparent form. While the first of the above-mentioned situations is not dangerous -probably because its occurrence borders on the miraculous - the second situation raises many concerns, primarily because of the possible dangers associated with the activities of lobbies. Against this background, the reason for the successive decrease in the number of lobbyists in relation to the scope of their activities in Poland will be examined. The above findings will be examined on the basis of theoretical-legal and dogmatic-legal methods.

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