Law (Recitation 2). Economic freedom

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Law (Recitation 2). Economic freedom

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2. Economic freedom Basic rule of the national economy (altogether with a freedom of contract in civil
3. Business Activity (Economic Activity)
4. Business Activity Profitable Conducted in an organised manner Permanent Lawful On one’s own behalf
5. Business Activity Activity for profit (a key element is an intention to get a profit; it
6. Business Activity Activity carried out in an organised manner (on the basis of scheduled and not
7. Business Activity Activity carried out on its own behalf: a concluded transaction must have an effect
8. Business Activity (Economic Activity)
9. Business Activity – scope Manufacturing, construction, trade and services, as well as prospecting, recognising and extracting
10. Entrepreneur
11. Entrepreneur
12. Legal forms of business activity (1) (1) Natural person: every citizen with a legal capacity. The
13. Legal forms of business activity (2) Legal persons: State Treasury corporations (private limited liability companies, joint-stock
14. Legal forms of business activity (3) (3) Other: General Partnerships (spółka jawna) Limited Partnerships (spółka komandytowa)
15. Legal forms of business activity (4) (3) Other: Limited Joint-Stock Patnerships (spółka komandytowo- akcyjna): general partners
16. Foreign Entities Doing Business in Poland: Legal aspects (Art. 13.1 FBAA) foreign persons originating from the
17. Foreign Entities Doing Business in Poland: Legal aspects (Art. 13.2&2a FBAA) nationals from other states who
18. Foreign Entities Doing Business in Poland: Legal aspects (Art. 13.3 FBAA) nationals from other states/not meeting
19. Foreign Entities Doing Business in Poland: Legal aspects Freedom of Business Activity Act allows foreign entities
20. Agency (1) the simplest fom of involvement in international business in Poland Representative office is only
21. Agency (2) An application for a registration must be filed with the Ministry for Economic Affairs.
22. Branch May perform the same servics, manufacture similar products or sell the same goods as the
23. Representative office/Branch Minister for Economic Affairs must be informed of all the changes to information presented
24. Subsidiary An entity whose identity is separate from the foreign entity. A foreign entity may directly
25. Enterprise (An organised group of tangible and intangible elements the purpose of which is to conduct
26. Entrepreneurs’ duties & rights
27. Business name (1) Name under which an entrepreneur operates business Principle of business name honesty: business
28. Business name (2) Special requirments for business names: joint-stock companies (spółka akcyjna; SA) limited liability company
29. Business name (3) limited partnership: name of one or more partner and the term spółka komandytowa
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Economic freedom
Basic rule of the national economy (altogether with a freedom

of contract in civil law)
Freedom of Business Activity Act (2004): regulation of carrying out business by entrepreneurs (hereafter: FBAA)
Commercial Companies Code (2001)
Civil Code (1964)
Treaty on EU functioning (freedom of establishment)

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Business Activity (Economic Activity)

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Business Activity
Profitable
Conducted in an organised manner
Permanent
Lawful
On one’s own behalf

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Business Activity
Activity for profit (a key element is an intention to

get a profit; it does not matter if an operating business suffers only losses)
Activity carried out continually (permanently): an intention of an entreprenur is to conclude a number of similar transactions within a certain period of time, occasional transactions not sufficient

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Business Activity
Activity carried out in an organised manner (on the basis

of scheduled and not an ad hoc basis)
Activity allowed by law (it cannot violate legal provisions)

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Business Activity
Activity carried out on its own behalf:
a concluded

transaction must have an effect on the person operating the business

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Business Activity (Economic Activity)

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Business Activity – scope
Manufacturing, construction, trade and services, as well as

prospecting, recognising and extracting minerals from deposits
Professionals (carrying out activities on a free-lance-basis) are also carrying out business activity (lawyers, doctors, artists, writers, tax advisers, auditors)
Limitation of business activity definition - excluded: manufacturing activities in agriculture with a respect to crop and vegetable cultivation, breeding of animals, gardening, forestry, fishing

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Entrepreneur

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Entrepreneur

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Legal forms of business activity (1)
(1) Natural person: every citizen with

a legal capacity.
The operating of a business as a sole individual – the simplest organisational form in Poland (proprietorship)
(2) Legal person: State Treasury and other organisations with a legal capacity (a power to sue or to be sued in its own name, to dispose of property as well as to enter into contracts)

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Legal forms of business activity (2)
Legal persons:
State Treasury
corporations (private limited liability

companies, joint-stock companies)
foundations
associations

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Legal forms of business activity (3)
(3) Other:
General Partnerships (spółka jawna)
Limited Partnerships

(spółka komandytowa)
Professional Partnerships (spółka partnerska): may be formed only by representatives of professions (doctors, lawyers, etc.)
Limited Joint-Stock Patnerships (spółka komandytowo- akcyjna)

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Legal forms of business activity (4)
(3) Other:
Limited Joint-Stock Patnerships (spółka komandytowo-

akcyjna): general partners are personally liable for its debts, and whose purpose is to operate a business under its own business name; at last one partner (the general partner) bears unlimited liability towards creditors for obligations of the partnership and at least one partner is a shareholder

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Foreign Entities Doing Business in Poland: Legal aspects (Art. 13.1 FBAA)

foreign persons originating from the EU and EEA countries may commence and conduct business activities in Poland under the same conditions as Polish entrepreneurs (freedom of establishment)

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Foreign Entities Doing Business in Poland: Legal aspects (Art. 13.2&2a FBAA)
nationals

from other states who have obtained permission of a residence on the territory of Poland or are in possessions of so-called „tolerated residence” (pobyt tolerowany) or those with refugeee status or under temporary protection
- are entitled to start and conduct business activities in under the same conditions as Polish citizens

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Foreign Entities Doing Business in Poland: Legal aspects (Art. 13.3 FBAA)
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from other states/not meeting conditions described above
- are entitled to start business activities in Poland only in the form of a limited partnership, a partnership limited by shares, a limited liability company or joint-stock company

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Foreign Entities Doing Business in Poland: Legal aspects
Freedom of Business Activity

Act allows foreign entities to carry out business activity in Poland through:
- a representative office (agency)
- a branch
- a subsidiary
„portfolio investment” (investment in securities offered on the Polish Stock Exchange Market)

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Agency (1)
the simplest fom of involvement in international business in Poland
Representative

office is only allowed to carry out activities in Poland regarding the promotion of a foreign entity.
The providing of services or the selling of any goods is not permitted.
Must be registered with the „Representative Office Register”.
Must include in its business name the term „representative office” (przedstawicielstwo).

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Agency (2)
An application for a registration must be filed with the

Ministry for Economic Affairs.
The stamp duty for the registration of the representative office amounts to 6,000 PLN.

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Branch
May perform the same servics, manufacture similar products or sell

the same goods as the foreign entity.
Must be entered into the Polish Court Register.
The identity of a branch is not separate from the identity of a foreign enterprise (enterprise bound by contracts concluded by a branch).
The branch is required to provide in its legal name in Poland the term branch (oddział) and a Polish translation of the legal form of the foreign entity.

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Representative office/Branch
Minister for Economic Affairs must be informed of all the

changes to information presented in the application for registration and of a commencement of insolvency proceeding, the termination of business activities.
Offices and branches are obliged to keep all accounts in accordance withe the accounting principles provided in the Polish Accounting Act.

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Subsidiary
An entity whose identity is separate from the foreign entity.
A

foreign entity may directly invest in Poland through acquiring a certain percentage of a subsidiary’s stock.
Foreign entity (having 51% of stock or more) is usually called a parent company.
Contracts concluded by a subsidiary cannot be binding for a a foreign entity.

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Enterprise
(An organised group of tangible and intangible elements the purpose of

which is to conduct business activity (Article 551 of Civil Code)
Enterprise as a whole may be an object of a legal transaction.
The purchase of the enterprise: required in written form, signatures of parties of the contract must be authorised by public notary (otherwise a transaction invalid).

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Entrepreneurs’ duties & rights

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Business name (1)
Name under which an entrepreneur operates business
Principle of business

name honesty: business name is not allowed to mislead other persons/entities as to the person of the entrepreneur, the objects of the entrepreneur, or its seat for carrying out its business.

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Business name (2)
Special requirments for business names:
joint-stock companies (spółka akcyjna; SA)
limited

liability company (spółka z ograniczoną odpowiedzialnością; sp. z o.o.)
general partnership: name of one or more partners and the term spółka jawna (sp.j.)
professional partnership: name of at least one partner and the term spółka partnerska (sp. p.)

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Business name (3)
limited partnership: name of one or more partner and

the term spółka komandytowa (sp. k.)
limited joint-stock partnership: name of one or more partner and the term spółka komandytowa-akcyjna (sp. k.a.)
proprietorship: the first and second name of the individual

Law (Recitation 2). Economic freedom

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Economic freedomBasic rule of the national economy (altogether with a freedom

Business Activity (Economic Activity)

Business ActivityProfitable Conducted in an organised mannerPermanentLawful On one’s own behalf

Business ActivityActivity for profit (a key element is an intention to

Business ActivityActivity carried out in an organised manner (on the basis

Business ActivityActivity carried out on its own behalf: a concluded

Business Activity (Economic Activity)

Business Activity – scopeManufacturing, construction, trade and services, as well as

Entrepreneur

Entrepreneur

Legal forms of business activity (1)(1) Natural person: every citizen with

Legal forms of business activity (2)Legal persons:State Treasurycorporations (private limited liability

Legal forms of business activity (3)(3) Other:General Partnerships (spółka jawna)Limited Partnerships

Legal forms of business activity (4)(3) Other:Limited Joint-Stock Patnerships (spółka komandytowo-

Foreign Entities Doing Business in Poland: Legal aspects (Art. 13.1 FBAA)

Foreign Entities Doing Business in Poland: Legal aspects (Art. 13.2&2a FBAA)nationals

Foreign Entities Doing Business in Poland: Legal aspects (Art. 13.3 FBAA)nationals

Foreign Entities Doing Business in Poland: Legal aspectsFreedom of Business Activity

Agency (1)the simplest fom of involvement in international business in PolandRepresentative

Agency (2)An application for a registration must be filed with the

Branch May perform the same servics, manufacture similar products or sell

Representative office/BranchMinister for Economic Affairs must be informed of all the

SubsidiaryAn entity whose identity is separate from the foreign entity. A

Enterprise(An organised group of tangible and intangible elements the purpose of

Entrepreneurs’ duties & rights

Business name (1)Name under which an entrepreneur operates businessPrinciple of business

Business name (2)Special requirments for business names:joint-stock companies (spółka akcyjna; SA)limited

Business name (3)limited partnership: name of one or more partner and

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