The EU has provided EUR 450 million (USD 503 million) for weapons, including air defence systems, anti-tank weapons, ammunition and other military equipment for the Ukrainian Armed Forces. A further EUR 50 million will be provided for fuel, bulletproof vests, helmets and first aid kits.
Since the EU Treaties do not allow the use of the EU budget for military purposes, the Community is introducing an instrument called the “European Peace Fund”, which allows the provision of military aid of up to EUR 5 billion.
The United States is also increasing its supplies and is providing an additional USD 350 million (EUR 313 million) in military aid, including Javelin anti-tank missiles, Stinger anti-aircraft missiles, small arms and ammunition.
Changes in the procedure in the Polish civil and administrative court proceedings under the Acts of May 14, 2020 and May 28, 2021 on the amendment of certain acts in the field of protective measures in connection with the spread of SARS-CoV-2 virus.
The epidemic caused by the Covid-19 virus has
significantly introduced changes in the search for safe solutions for
people-to-people contact. These changes also affected the courts and the mode
of court hearings, in order to ensure the greatest possible safety for the
parties to the proceedings and court employees. In this situation, the best way
to limit direct contact was the possibility of using electronic communication
methods.
Legal basis
Amendment to the Polish Act of March 2, 2020
on special solutions related to the prevention, counteraction and combating of
COVID-19, other infectious diseases and the emergencies caused by them,
implemented by two acts of May 14, 2020 and May 28, 2021, allowed for the
possibility of holding court hearings in Polish courts with using means of
distance communication. The change resulting directly from article 15 zzs1
of the Polish Act of 2 March 2020 allowed for the possibility of participating
in a remote hearing from a place other than the court, because until now the Polish
Code of Civil Procedure allowed for the possibility of conducting a remote
hearing, but the persons participating in it had to be present in the court
building. Pursuant to article 15zzs1 point 1 of the Polish Act of 2
March 2020, during the period of the epidemic threat or epidemic state
announced due to COVID-19 and within one year of the last of them being
recalled in cases examined under the provisions of the Polish Code of Civil
Procedure, court hearings or open sessions are held with the use of technical
devices enabling them to be carried out at a distance with the simultaneous
direct transmission of image and sound, except that the people participating in them
do not have to be in the court building, unless holding a hearing or a public
hearing without the use of the above devices causes excessive health risk to
the participants.[1]
Market stability guaranteed by the legal system of the EU and competitive operating costs in relation to other EU Member States
10 years in the EU and 25 years of free market economy pose the following favourable investment conditions in relation to the markets of Western Europe:
1) low labour costs and low operating costs of the investment;
2) considerable human potential;
3) economic stability;
4) relatively good logistics infrastructure supported by a number of investments from EU funds;
5) availability of alternative forms of investment financing – Poland will be a major beneficiary of EU funds in the financial perspective for the years 2014 – 2020 (EUR 82.5 billion). Export in Poland has increased more or less twentyfold since 1995. It shows, that the main point of development and the biggest potential are young and well-educated people. According to Mastermind Translations, polish student population constitutes 10% of all European students and most of them are capable of working in foreign languages. It results in Poland’s GDP rising, which is three times faster than the average in Europe.
Software patents – patentability and software protection in the EU and Polish law
The article prepared by KG LEGAL KIEŁTYKA GŁADKOWSKI based in Cracow, Poland, specialising in cross border cases, with focus on new technologies, IT and life science, discusses the practice of software patentability, advantages and risks in patenting software, patenting computer-implemented inventions, EU legislation regarding software patenting, patents for IT start-ups, software patent applications, legal protection for IT ideas, software patents as crucial element for successful commercialisation of the product, patents in the context of free software and open-source software (FOSS), patents for trivial inventions, EPO patent procedure, patents for computer programs in such sectors as medical devices, the automotive sector, communication/media technology as well as the issue of novelty, inventive step and industrial applicability of software patent.
Market stability guaranteed by the legal system of the EU and competitive operating costs in relation to other EU Member States