European Union legislator, considering the previous Member States’ experiences, modified the professionalization of electronic communication idea and passed the new law – REGULATION (EU) No 910/2014 OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND OF THE COUNCIL of 23 July 2014 on electronic identification and trust services for electronic transactions in the internal market and repealing Directive 1999/93/EC [1], so-called eIDAS Regulation.
The aim of this Regulation was to increase
confidence in the electronic trade market area in extent of e-business and
contact with public entities by the introduction of the unified IT solutions
legal frames for the entire European Union. These legal frames provide a
reliable determination of the natural persons’ and organizational units’
identity.
On 11 August 2021 the Polish Act of Administrative Procedure Code Amendment was passed by the Polish lower house of the Parliament after the Senate’s adjustment consideration. On 14 August 2021 the Amendment Act was signed by the Polish president and on 16 August 2021 was published in the Polish Official Journal of Laws. As we can read on the official websites and from the official Ministry of Justice statement (from the ministerial conference):
The amendment to the Polish Administrative Procedure Code protects the interests of thousands of Polish citizens who are uncertain about the fate of properties important to them. The provisions passed by the Sejm dismiss the spectre of never-ending claims against the State Treasury.[1]
This statement should be read in the context of the real estate’s reprivatization socio-legal problem, to which politicians have mainly referred. [2]
It
is worth to notice that this amendment implemented Constitutional Tribunal
judgement of 2015 (P 46/13) on the inconsistency with the Polish Constitution of
previous procedural articles and there are a lot of critical voices about
recent amendment, for instance here:
On September 13 and 14, 2021, KIELTYKA GLADKOWSKI took part in two webinars, organised by Idea Growth (https://ideagrowth.org/), concerning the broadly understood i-gaming and sports betting, which are one of the core specializations of technology sector of KIELTYKA GLADKOWSKI. Each of the webinars had the form of a short 1-hour condensed session conducted by the experts of the above-mentioned fields.
On Monday, September 13, 2021, the first webinar addressed
“the imperative of advertising to acquire customers while respecting
various state laws and prioritizing responsible gaming practices.”
Technology transfer agreements as well as investment agreements are often accompanied by source code escrow agreements used to secure the IP rights to the software.
Source code
The key of
programs and software is the source code. It is the fundamental component of a
computer program that is created by a programmer. The source code should be written using a
human-readable programming language – usually plain text. The main goal of it
is to set exact rules and specifications for the computer that can be translated
into the machine’s language.
What is source code escrow?
Sometimes it happens that even if special
software tailored to one’s needs is created by a professional company, problems
may arise. The investor needs to make every effort to protect company in the
event that the contractor’s company ceases to exist, for example because of its
bankruptcy or liquidation. In such cases, the solution to secure the transfer
of ownership of the source code is to put in place source code escrow
agreement. This is a service that helps protect all parties involved in a
software licence by having a neutral, independent third party escrow agent hold
the source code.
WARSAW
HEALTH INNOVATION HUB – THE BEGINNING OF THE POLISH MEDIAL VALLEY
On
June 10, 2021 there was launched the Warsaw Health Innovation Hub (WHIH). This,
first in the Eastern (and Central) Europe, initiative between public and
business sectors will bring together leading global medical, pharmaceutical and
biotechnology companies. According to the funders’ intention, it should be a
beginning of the Polish Medical Valley which was created concurrently with the
WHIH. The WHIH is intended to be just a first step of this huge, innovative
enterprise.
WHAT
IS THE WARSAW HEALTH INNOVATION HUB?
The
Polish WHIH is the first business initiative in the Central Europe that brings
together co-working between public sector with business entities in order to
create innovative medical, technological and legal solutions for patients’
health improvement and for enhancement the capability of Polish health- care
system. This unique conception (co-working conception) will allow to provide
the conditions for rapid transformation of ideas into products, processes and
services, taking into account the development interests of the Polish
biomedical sector and Poland’s need to be independent in terms of drug and
medical products safety. It is also an opportunity to invest in Polish
technologies and the best research teams in the country, according to the
Medical Research Agency.[1]
This
is a joint initiative between the Medical Research Agency (Agencja Badań
Medycznych)[2]
EIT Health[3]
and global medical industries players: AstraZeneca, Microsoft, Polpharma,
Roche. The launching ceremony was held at the Chancellery of the Prime Minister
of Poland with his patronage.
