An Excess or Deficiency of Legal Regulations of the Specific Part of Commercial Agreements Law in the Civil Code?
An Excess or Deficiency of Legal Regulations of the Specific Part of Commercial Agreements Law in the Civil Code?

Summary/Abstract: One of the consequences of the post-1989 significant legislative activity of the Sejmof the Republic of Poland is the fact that legal acts that play a special role in the legalsystem (codes) are also subject to numerous amendments. What is the influenceof such amendments on the cohesion and transparency of the legal regulationsincluded in these codes? Was the intention to fulfil the demands of the businesstrading of the time, undoubtedly deserving of approval, by modernising the existingregulations, introducing new ones, and – potentially – abandoning those whosepractical significance and application is currently marginal in the context of thediscussed matter an essential motive for undertaking many legislative changes appliedto the Civil Code regarding the legal regulations of economic relations – includingin particular the legal regulations of the specific part of commercial contracts law– after the transformation of the socio-economic system in the years 1989–1990?Is it therefore possible to say with respect to the present shape of the specific partof commercial contracts law in the Civil Code that this is in an optimal state? Orperhaps there is an excessive or insufficient number of legal regulations in thismatter? Are there any draft amendments to the said area of legal regulations? Whatdirections do they follow? The subject matter of this paper is to search for answersto the questions asked above.

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