Realizacja prawa petycji przez Sejm VIII kadencji (lata 2015–2018). Wybrane zagadnienia
Realisation of the right of petition by the Sejm of the seventh term (2015–2018). Selected issues

Summary/Abstract: The article contains an analysis of the hitherto realisation of the constitutional right of petition by the Sejm of the Republic of Poland. With the entry into force of the Act of 11 July 2014 on petitions, public authorities, including the Sejm, became obliged to consider petitions. In the Sejm, Petition Committee was established as the organ competent to consider petitions submitted to the lower chamber of the parliament. The Committee was appointed at the end of the seventh term of the Sejm, but commenced its substantive activity only at the beginning of the eighth term. Until the end of 2018, Petition Committee altogether considered 393 petitions submitted to the Sejm in the years 2015–2018. In the article such issues are discussed, related to petitions considered by Petition Committee, as: specifying entities exercising the right to petition, the subject of petitions and procedure for considering them. The analysis is based on the materials documenting the works and the course of the sittings of the Sejm Petition Committee during the eighth term, in the years 2015–2018.

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