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Podmioty uprawnione do uzyskania statusu organizacji pożytku publicznego
Entities That May Gain the Status of a Public Benefit Organization

Author(s): Wojciech Wnuk
Subject(s): Law, Constitution, Jurisprudence, Civil Law
Published by: Towarzystwo Naukowe KUL & Katolicki Uniwersytet Lubelski Jana Pawła II
Keywords: non-governmental organization; public benefit organization; third sector

Summary/Abstract: This article analyses current acts of Polish law that refer to those entities which are entitled to the status of public benefit organization. The legislator permits three groups of entities to apply for this status. These are: non-governmental organizations, ecclesiastical legal persons and associations of local self-government units.The author presents legal definitions of such entities and determines the scope of the notion of a non-governmental organization on the basis of several tens of normative acts.

  • Issue Year: 16/2006
  • Issue No: 2
  • Page Range: 469-492
  • Page Count: 24
  • Language: Polish
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