In accordance with the agenda scheduled for the gathering on 14 and 15 May, the legislature will address the first deregulation package prepared by the Ministry of improvement and Technology. The paper adopted by the Sejm last week contains about 40 solutions to facilitate business. Within a fewer months, the effects are to be felt for entrepreneurs. At the same time, further deregulation proposals are under way.
– The effects of the first deregulation package will become felt and will be real for entrepreneurs erstwhile they are signed by the President. The bill must go all the way through legislation, so the Sejm, the Senate, the President, a fewer months and these effects will be felt – says Newseria Mariusz Filipek, Deputy Ombudsman for tiny and average Entrepreneurs, Minister for Deregulation and economical Dialogue, Ministry of improvement and Technology.
The Sejm adopted almost unanimously the first deregulation package on Thursday 24 April. This week he went to the legislature and was put on the order of the nearest May meeting. As Minister of improvement and Technology Krzysztof Paszyk emphasized, the first deregulation package is simply a breakthrough in the process of simplifying regulations and introducing solutions that will support, not destruct and restrict Polish companies. The changes provided for in the package concern fresh rules for the control of entrepreneurs, e.g. shortening the maximum time of checks from 12 to 6 days and adapting their frequency to the level of hazard associated with the activity concerned, and introducing the work to supply the trader before the first check is initiated with the list of information and papers needed. Part of the rules aims to improve the conduct of administrative procedures, e.g. they introduce the electronicisation of proceedings before the National Appeals Chamber or encourage more frequent usage of alleged soft calls, i.e. the anticipation to address entrepreneurs without initiating proceedings. The 3rd area of the amendment is to clarify the principles of creating a friendly economical law, i.e. a sufficiently long vacatio legis or balancing administrative obligations (rules in, 1 out).
Quoted in the Communication, the minister added that the deregulation process had started with full momentum and that further solutions were to be presented soon. According to the announcement, this process is to cover more than 120 laws which will shortly be sent from the government to the Sejm.
– In the second deregulation package of the Ministry of improvement and Technology there are further beneficial changes for entrepreneurs, another good government in many laws. I talk a small enigmatically, but I besides talk about good strategy solutions from the point of view of entrepreneurs and I besides talk from the point of view of respective laws which are presently being analysed. Among another things, it is the Criminal Code, the Public Procurement Law, the Business Act – says Mariusz Filipek.
On 24 April, the results of government-social cooperation in the area of deregulation were presented. Rafał Brzoski's squad proposed over 200 laws in 2 months, of which the government analysed 197 proposals and 123 accepted to implement (62%). According to the announcements, the package of laws is to be conducted at the first session of the Sejm after the presidential election, and the squad is to proceed working on further proposals. The detailed proposals included: central e-registration of doctor visits, fresh services in mCitizen applications (e.g. access to medical data and mRetirement), digitisation of the judiciary, digital labour medicine rulings, presumption of the taxpayer's innocence in taxation settlements, raising the threshold of application of the law Public procurement law, rationalisation of penalties in economical trade or distant criminal proceedings.
– As for possible acceleration of deregulation, I will mention to EU legislation, where we have overproduction of the law, I will mention to Polish legislation, where it besides seems that for decades the law has been overproduced. Do we request to accelerate in deregulation? I believe that we request rational law-making, fresh rules, smart, coherent, in dialog with entrepreneurs, in very large consultations, so that all fresh regulation is conscious, smart and integrated into the system – emphasises the deputy Ombudsman for tiny and average Entrepreneurs.
