On July 11, 2019, the representatives of the Ministry of Enterprise and
Technology will visit the headquarters of the National Key Life Science
Cluster in Krakow. The meeting will aim to present the activities of the
Life Science Cluster. The program of the visit includes acquainting
Cluster Members (including the representatives of KIEŁTYKA GŁADKOWSKI KG
LEGAL) with the representatives of the Polish Ministry of
Entrepreneurship and Technology based in Warsaw (this is one of the 19
Polish government departments).
The amendment to the Polish Code of Civil Procedure was passed by
the Parliament on July 4, 2019. It is currently awaiting the President’s
signature. The draft amendment to the Code of Civil Procedure provides for
numerous changes to the current form of civil procedure, especially when it
comes to regulations concerning entrepreneurs. The new law, created at the
initiative of the Ministry of Justice, is to restore separate proceedings in
commercial cases, removed from the Code in 2012. The draft provides for the
introduction of a new section entitled “Proceedings in commercial
cases”. It is to deal with civil matters between entrepreneurs in the
scope of their business activity.
The first change
introduced by this amendment will be the so-called preparatory proceedings –
obligatory and less formal meetings taking place outside the courtroom to
resolve the dispute at an early stage. Their aim is to get the parties to
reconciliation and settlement, and the court chairman has the task of pointing
out to the parties the ways and effects of the out-of-court resolution of the
dispute. These meetings should be considered an attempt to introduce the idea
of arbitration to the Polish civil procedure.
In April
2019 in Poland there has entered into force the Act on the submission of
certain official documents in member states of the European Union. This Act is
to ensure the application in Poland of the Regulation (EU) 2016/1191 of the
European Parliament and of the Council of 6 July 2016 on promoting the free
movement of citizens by simplifying the requirements for presenting certain
public documents in the European Union, including by abolishing the requirement
of legalization and apostille. The documents that qualify to this simplified
procedure are, among others:
In Krakow
there will be launched the Centre for New Computational Methods in Personalized
Medicine – a new unit of implementation research, in which innovative methods
of medical and personalized diagnostics will be developed, using advanced
technologies, models and computer simulations for this purpose.
