The reconstruction of public administration is one of the most important structural tasks. Decentralization through Self- government is the most advanced form of the enforcement of public administration. However, it is not a sufficient reorganization undertaking. For decentralization to be efficiently implemented, certain general conditions should be met. One of them is a deep reconstruction of t he central government administration, which in its present form is not correlated with a new political structure of the State, its new tasks and with a new position of Government (as set forth in the Constitutional Act of 17 October 1992). Besides, there exists a need to provide for a smooth course of, and correlation between, the making of politics by the Government and the functioning of the administrative apparatus. In such a context, a new conception of creating districts (powiaty) as a new unit of territorial division and self-governmental authority seems premature. It needs to be added that the position of a district in the draft Law is not unequivocal. In particular, it is not clear to what extent the district bodies are to represent the district community, and to what extent they will only be the executors of certain tasks set forth in the Law. ; Digitalizacja i deponowanie archiwalnych zeszytów RPEiS sfinansowane przez MNiSW w ramach realizacji umowy nr 541/P-DUN/2016
The proper functioning of local-government administration means not only improving legal and organisational solutions, but mainly officials abiding by ethical principles. Therefore, an important role in the process is played by the ethical standards of good administration referred to in the European Code of Good Administrative Behaviour. The principles apply to the assessment of the operation of public administration. They reflect the duties of the administration towards the citizens. The purpose of this paper is to assess the importance of the principles of ethics as a factor conditioning the efficient operation of local government administration. The questionnaire research carried out among local government staff and their stakeholders enabled the identification of the most frequent irregularities in the work of the officials and indicates the importance of the principles of ethics in the process of eliminating irregularities.
The proper functioning of local-government administration means not only improving legal and organisational solutions, but mainly officials abiding by ethical principles. Therefore, an important role in the process is played by the ethical standards of good administration referred to in the European Code of Good Administrative Behaviour. The principles apply to the assessment of the operation of public administration. They reflect the duties of the administration towards the citizens. The purpose of this paper is to assess the importance of the principles of ethics as a factor conditioning the efficient operation of local government administration. The questionnaire research carried out among local government staff and their stakeholders enabled the identification of the most frequent irregularities in the work of the officials and indicates the importance of the principles of ethics in the process of eliminating irregularities.
The proper functioning of local-government administration means not only improving legal and organisational solutions, but mainly officials abiding by ethical principles. Therefore, an important role in the process is played by the ethical standards of good administration referred to in the European Code of Good Administrative Behaviour. The principles apply to the assessment of the operation of public administration. They reflect the duties of the administration towards the citizens. The purpose of this paper is to assess the importance of the principles of ethics as a factor conditioning the efficient operation of local government administration. The questionnaire research carried out among local government staff and their stakeholders enabled the identification of the most frequent irregularities in the work of the officials and indicates the importance of the principles of ethics in the process of eliminating irregularities.
W artykule zostało przedstawione pojęcie dyskrecjonalności w polskim prawie administracyjnym oraz w prawie unijnym. Nierównorzędność stron stosunku administracyjnoprawnego jest potęgowana przez działanie organów administracji publicznej w ramach władzy dyskrecjonalnej. Sytuacja prawna jednostki wobec organu ulega tym większej dysproporcji, im więcej luzu decyzyjnego przyznanego przez prawodawcę posiada organ. Problem ten zauważa także prawodawca unijny. Z tego względu istniejące standardy oraz planowane regulacje w zakresie prawa administracyjnego (Europejski kodeks postępowania administracyjnego) mają na celu przede wszystkim ochronę jednostki. Wskazuje się na konieczność zachowania równowagi między interesem publicznym a słusznym interesem strony. Trybunał Sprawiedliwości Unii Europejskiej zauważył, że w porządku międzynarodowym podmiotami są nie tylko państwa członkowskie, ale także same jednostki i to one zostały objęte szczególną ochroną prawną. ; This article presents the concept of discretion in Polish administrative law and EU law. The inequality of parties in an administrative law relationship is increased by existence of administrative discretion. The legal situation of an individual is weaker when the administrative body has clearance decision-making. This problem has also been reflected in the planned regulation and standards of the EU legislation in the field of administrative law (Law of Administrative Procedure of the European Union) designed to protect individuals. It is recommended that a balance between the public interest and the legitimate interests of the party be maintained. The Court of Justice of the European Union pointed out that in the international order it is not only Member States, but also individuals who are subject to protection.
The Russian model of supervision and control of administration was introduced in the Kingdom of Poland concurrently with the reorganisation of the governorate and district administration after the January Uprising. The supervisory functions were taken over by the newly established bodies of the governorate and district administration of individual sectors of ministerial administration, for which the ministers residing in St. Petersburg were the final decisive body. On the other hand, the abolition of the Council of State of the Kingdom of Poland in 1867 entailed the final liquidation of the administrative justice system based on the French model, which had operated on these lands since the times of the Duchy of Warsaw. Its tasks were taken over by so-called "mixed offices" which filled the resulting gap only partially. Unlike administrative courts, these offices formed an integral part of the governorate administration, and their clerical staff as well as the bureaucratic method of operation compromised their judicial independence. Moreover, the procedure for dispute resolution in these offices had the character of an intra-administrative procedure which did not employ the concept of a party, and its discretionary course excluded the possibility of applying the principles of adversarial process, openness to the public or dispositiveness. The peculiarity of "mixed offices" in the Kingdom of Poland, resulting solely from political reasons, was the reduction of their staffing only to the bureaucratic element and full subordination of their substantive and formal side of the proceedings to the governorate authorities. As a result, the judicial activity of "mixed offices" in administrative matters in the Kingdom of Poland was much more dependent on the current policies of the tsarist authorities represented and supervised directly by the governors than in the interior governorates of the Empire. The combination of these factors with the discretionary rules of intra-ministerial proceedings applied in these offices deprived inhabitants of the Kingdom of Poland of a guarantee of impartial defence of their rights and interests in disputes with the administration that was foreign and distrustful to them. ; Rosyjski model nadzoru i kontroli administracji został wprowadzony w Królestwie Polskim równocześnie z reorganizacją zarządu gubernialnego i powiatowego po powstaniu styczniowym. Funkcje nadzorcze przejęły nowo utworzone organy administracji gubernialnej i powiatowej poszczególnych pionów resortowych, dla których ostateczną instancją decydującą byli ministrowie rezydujący w Petersburgu. Natomiast zniesienie Rady Stanu Królestwa Polskiego w 1867 r. oznaczało ostateczną likwidację sądownictwa administracyjnego opartego na modelu francuskim, istniejącego na tych ziemiach od czasów Księstwa Warszawskiego. Jego zadania przejęły tzw. urzędy mieszane, wypełniając jedynie częściowo powstałą lukę. W odróżnieniu od sądów administracyjnych urzędy te stanowiły integralną część administracji gubernialnej, a ich urzędniczy skład osobowy oraz biurokratyczny sposób funkcjonowania wykluczał ich niezależność orzeczniczą. Ponadto tryb postępowania w przypadku rozstrzygania kwestii spornych w tych urzędach miał charakter postępowania wewnątrzadministracyjnego, które nie znało pojęcia strony, a jego dyskrecjonalny przebieg wykluczał możliwość stosowania zasady kontradyktoryjności, jawności czy dyspozytywności. Specyfiką "urzędów mieszanych" w Królestwie Polskim, wynikającą wyłącznie z powodów politycznych, było ograniczenie ich składu personalnego jedynie do elementu biurokratycznego oraz pełne podporządkowanie merytorycznej i formalnej strony postępowania ich kolegiów decyzyjnych kontroli władz gubernialnych. W rezultacie działalność orzecznicza "urzędów mieszanych" w sprawach administracyjnych w Królestwie Polskim była zależna w zdecydowanie większym stopniu od aktualnych kierunków polityki władz carskich reprezentowanych i nadzorowanych bezpośrednio przez gubernatorów niż w wewnętrznych guberniach Cesarstwa. Połączenie tych czynników z dyskrecjonalnymi regułami postępowania wewnątrzadministracyjnego, stosowanymi w tych urzędach, pozbawiało mieszkańców Królestwa Polskiego gwarancji bezstronnej obrony ich praw i interesów w sporach z obcą i z założenia nieufną wobec nich administracją.
Civil dialogue has an impact on the quality of public policy, in the online form it allows direct influence of stakeholders on the process of formulation and its implementation. It is also a new quality in the process of evaluating public policy. Civil dialogue is usually understood as a process of communication between the state authority and non-governmental organizations, but the author of the article indicates that it is possible to conduct civil dialogue in a direct way with citizens through social media. He presents the results of research aimed at verifying the use of social media by the authorities in order to establish a dialogue with citizens. The research consisted in measuring and analyzing communication conducted by selected Polish voivodeship cities on the Twitter social network. The author points out the characteristic styles of communication that can be interpreted from the perspective of civil dialogue.
In the group of Central Asian countries, the Republic of Kazakhstan appears to be scientifically best communicated with Europe. Thus it has raised an increasingly strong interest – also on the part of comparative law researchers. The subject matter of this article is an attempt to reform territorial administration and to establish territorial self-government in Kazakhstan. The reforms have not been implemented without any resistance or mistakes, it is important, however, that the need to change and modernize local government structures is discerned. The debate over the constitutional reform of the local political system favours the construction of social awareness of the fact that a clear distinction between the territorial government administration and territorial self-government as well as the latter's independence, determines the construction of civil society and democratization of social life. ; Artykuł nie zawiera abstraktu w języku polskim
On 16 March 2019 the amendment of the Act – the Industrial Property Law, which implemented the European Parliament and EU Council Directive 2015/2436 of 16 December 2015, aiming the rapprochement of legislation within the membership countries regarding trade marks. The essential change, that the amendment implemented is the cancellation of the necessity of graphical representation of the trade mark, what allows to simplify the registration of the unconventional trade marks. The purpose of the article is to present how the registration of unconventional trade marks looked within the light of the Luxembourg tribunal's statements. ; W dniu 16 marca 2019 r. weszła w życie nowelizacja ustawy Prawo własności przemysłowej, która implementowała dyrektywę Parlamentu Europejskiego i Rady (UE) 2015/2436 z dnia 16 grudnia 2015 r. mającą na celu zbliżenie ustawodawstw państw członkowskich odnoszących się do znaków towarowych. Istotną zmianą, jaką wprowadziła nowelizacja, jest zniesienie wymogu graficznej przedstawialności znaku towarowego. Umożliwi to łatwiejszą rejestrację niekonwencjonalnych znaków towarowych. Celem niniejszego artykułu jest zaprezentowanie, jak w świetle orzecznictwa trybunału luksemburskiego przedstawiała się rejestracja niekonwencjonalnych znaków towarowych.
The Peoples' Councils and Local Self-Government System Act of 20 July 1983 introduced certain new elements to local administration system. Treating people's councils as organs of local self-government was one of those elements. People's councils and organs of municipal and rural residents self-government are handled in the new regulation as parts of the same organizational structure (of local self- -government system). It resulted in an increase of weight of decentralization and supervision problems in aspect of local administration. The present article contains a study of regulation pertaining to supervision excercised in three systems: 1. supervision performed upon people's councils, 2. supervision upon organs of municipal and rural self-government and 3. supervision upon administrative organs of people's councils. In the first system, supervision is performed by the Council of State (upon all councils in principle) and by voivodship (district) councils upon municipal, quarter, and rural district councils. The supervision covers control of legality of decisions and corrective means which cannot violate a principle of independence in activities. The newly introduced obligation of lending assistance to supervised organs is characteristic for a socialist state. The Polish Seym (Diet) is also obliged by the Act to take care of self-government charakter of people's councils, special means are provided for the Council of State to be used in instances of violating independence of people's councils by other organs. Supervision of rural self-government organs is trusted to rural district council and to its presidium, while supervision upon municipal self-government organs is performed by municipal (quarter) council and its presidium. Means of control are not intensive there but also the scope of affairs relegated to that self government is not substantial at least as far as decisional competence is concerned. In practice, the supervision upon organs of administration of people's councils is of a crucial importance, as those are implementing tasks of people's councils. On the central level, the supervision is divided onto various organs: Council of Ministers, Prime Minister, Minister of Administration and Region-Shaping Economy and branch ministers, what can threaten with inconsistencies in performing that function. On the voivodship level, the supervision is performed by voivodes and heads of departments of voivodship administration upon relevant organs of administration on the level of rural district, city, quarter. Yet, competence of higher level organs is differentiated subject to tasks performed by local organs of administration. In the decentralised sphere (when organs of administration act as executive organs of people's councils), means of exercised influence are those of supervision. But if those organs act in the sphere excluded from the competence of people's councils, the means are close to hierarchical subordination. That latter influence is named governance in the Act. The differentiated influence is effected by a dual role of local organs of administration since a dualistic model of local administration (self- -governmental and governmental) is rejected in the Act. ; Digitalizacja i deponowanie archiwalnych zeszytów RPEiS sfinansowane przez MNiSW w ramach realizacji umowy nr 541/P-DUN/2016
Istnienie państwa dobrobytu może być uzasadniane za pomocą argumentacji zarówno ekonomicznej, politycznej, jak i filozoficznej. W artykule scharakteryzowano sprawiedliwość dystrybutywną z perspektywy liberalnego egalitaryzmu, co stanowi jednocześnie analizę filozoficznej argumentacji na rzecz państwa dobrobytu. Odwołano się przy tym do dwóch najbardziej wpływowych koncepcji: teorii sprawiedliwości jako bezstronności autorstwa Rawlsa oraz idei równości zasobów zaproponowanej przez Dworkina. Celem artykułu była ocena modeli państwa dobrobytu w świetle wymagań stawianych w obu koncepcjach sprawiedliwie urządzonemu społeczeństwu. Autor dowodzi, że mając na względzie realne możliwości jednostek do formułowania, rozumnego realizowania oraz korekty swych własnych planów życiowych, jedynie socjaldemokratyczny (nordycki) model państwa dobrobytu można uznać za akceptowalny z perspektywy egalitarystycznej. ; The existence of the welfare state can be justified by economic and political arguments as well as philosophical ones. The paper analyses the liberal-egalitarian view on distributive justice and hence on the philosophical justification of the welfare state, based on two most influential egalitarian concepts: Rawls's theory of justice as fairness and Dworkin's equality of resources theory. The aim of this article was to evaluate the welfare state regimes in the light of requirements of both theories that just society must satisfy. It is argued that with respect to the individual capacity to formulate, rationally pursue, and revise one's life plans, the social-democratic (Nordic model) may be deemed as the only regime capable of being accepted from the egalitarian perspective.
In the article author states and justifies three theses on the lay judges and their participation in the exercise of justice in Poland. First thesis claims that the statement about the lack of integration in the community of lay judges in Poland is not true any longer and it is possible to observe the beginning of a process of its integration and cooperation connected with the recent establishment and activity of the Association National Council of Lay Judges. The second thesis states, that it is necessary to broaden the participation of citizens in the exercise of justice as a remedy for a low level of legitimacy and credibility of the judiciary. According to the third thesis Poland is presently in need of a widespread public debate concerning the reform of the institution of lay judges which should lead to a real fulfilment of the constitutional right of citizens to participate in the exercise of justice. ; In the article author states and justifies three theses on the lay judges and their participation in the exercise of justice in Poland. First thesis claims that the statement about the lack of integration in the community of lay judges in Poland is not true any longer and it is possible to observe the beginning of a proces of its integration and cooperation connected with the recent establishment and activity of the Association National Council of Lay Judges. The second thesis states, that it is necessary to broaden the participation of citizens in the exercise of justice as a remedy for a low level of legitimacy and credibility of the judiciary. According to the third thesis Poland is presently in need of a widespread public debate concerning the reform of the institution of lay judges which should lead to a real fulfilment of the constitutional right of citizens to participate in the exercise of justice.
The article analyses bank levy both from the economic as well as legal perspective. Due to the fact that this tax solution has been applicable from 1 February 2016, its origin and previous projects are also presented, which illustrates the development of taxation of the banking sector in Poland that has been happening over the past dozen or more years. The bank levy is applicable in many European Union Member States and thus this paper contains a comprehensive comparative analysis of relevant solutions adopted in various states, which allows to see the similarities and differences between them. The paper is also concerned with the consequences that the bank levy has brought about in Poland. Analysis of its flaws makes it possible to propose changes as well, which would make the provisions of the law more precise. The bank levy applicable in Poland has also undergone analysis through the prism of tax avoidance. Mechanisms that might encourage tax avoidance, which might certainly impair the effectiveness of this tax, have been delineated. ; Artykuł poświęcony jest ocenie koncepcji reformy administracji skarbowej, zawartej w poselskim projekcie ustawy o Krajowej Administracji Skarbowej (druk nr 826). Została ona dokonana w odniesieniu do zasadniczych problemów, które – moim zdaniem - dotykają polski aparat skarbowy, a więc: powierzenie temu samemu organowi kierownictwa w zakresie kształtowania systemu podatkowego oraz wykonywania publicznej działalności państwa w zakresie prawa podatkowego, ukształtowanie aparatu wykonawczego według kryterium rodzaju podatku, nie zaś realizowanych funkcji, nałożenie na administrację skarbową szeregu zadań nie związanych z podatkami, brak ustawowo określonych zasad finansowania administracji skarbowej oraz powiązania wydatków z realizowanymi przez nią zadaniami, brak polityki pracowniczej.
Artykuł recenzowany / peer-reviewed article ; The research on district (county) administration in 1816–66 requires aggregation of archival materials. Th ere are digital databases and traditional educational inventories available to researchers. Researches are also welcome to make use of digital libraries that contain many printed sources. The main sources database for the research on the intermediate level of administration are district and county fi les kept in State Archives. Th e operation of commissioners delegated to districts (1816–42) and counties (1843–1866) is suffi ciently documented in 32 sets of fi les. Th e query can by extended to cover regional (voivodship, and aft er 1837 – governorship) and governmental fi les. As the volume and variety of archival material is impressive, it is worthwhile to stage the queries. Any conclusions and detailed evaluation will only be possible aft er a large share of the fi les have been investigated. ; Podjęte badania nad administracją obwodową (powiatową) w Królestwie Polskim w latach 1816–1866 wymagają zestawienia odpowiednich zasobów zgromadzonych w archiwach państwowych. Dostępne są cyfrowe bazy danych i tradycyjne inwentarze. Udogodnienia spotykamy również przy badaniu źródeł drukowanych, których duża część udostępniona jest przez biblioteki cyfrowe. Główną bazą źródłową do prowadzenia badań nad administracją pośredniego szczebla są akta obwodowe i powiatowe. 32 zespoły dokumentują w sposób wystarczający funkcjonowanie komisarzy delegowanych w obwód (1816–1842) i naczelników powiatu (1843–1866). Można rozważyć poszerzenie kwerendy o zachowane akta wojewódzkie (od 1837 r. – gubernialne) i rządowe. Ze względu na obszerność i różnorodność materiału archiwalnego warto wykonywać pracę etapami. Dopiero po przejrzeniu większej części akt będzie możliwa ich szczegółowa ocena i formułowanie wniosków.
