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Tax office needs to know about amendments to corporate charter
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Preliminary agreement for real estate transaction without a shareholder resolution?
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Public procurement—EU thresholds raised!
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How many real changes in the Personal Data Protection Act?
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Foreign investors speak out on legal barriers in Poland
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Foreign investors speak out on legal barriers in Poland
02-02-2012
The country’s strengths include a large, strong market, a skilled workforce, and political stability. The main barriers are the inflexible employment law, unclear tax regulations, and difficulties in seeking investment incentives.
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Commercial register transcripts free online
02-02-2012
Since 1 January 2012, the National Court Register Information Centre has been required to provide free online access to complete up-to-date information from the National Court Register and copies of documents submitted to the registry files.
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Wardyński & Partners co-author Cambridge book on liability for climate change
19-12-2011
A book devoted to legal liability for climate change has been published by Cambridge University Press. Lawyers from Wardyński & Partners authored the section involving Polish law.
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Will Poland avoid a recession?
05-12-2011
Speakers at the 4th Warsaw CEE Financial Hub, an international conference held on 30 November 2011 at the Warsaw Stock Exchange, gave high marks to the Polish economy.
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Best practice just gets better and better
07-11-2011
Under amendments to the WSE Code of Best Practice, companies will have to publish their sponsorship policies and comment on false reports about the company.
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Can a pre-war company still recover its assets?
04-08-2010
An amendment to the Regulations Enacting the National Court Register Act has gone into effect that significantly changes the rules for re-registering pre-war companies in the National Court Register. The amendment makes it more difficult to reactivate pre
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Land and mortgage registers available online
24-06-2010
From 16 June 2010 it is no longer necessary to stand in line at the land and mortgage register court. The Polish Ministry of Justice has created free, universal access to allow the public to review land and mortgage registers in electronic form.
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E-court touches a nerve
03-03-2010
The e-court that went online in Poland on 4 January 2010 is flooded with cases. By the end of the month nearly 60,000 claims had been filed.
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Judgments freely accessible
03-03-2010
Reduction of information identifying the parties does not make a judgment “processed information” for purposes of the Act on Access to Public Information, the Minister of Justice ruled on 4 February 2010.
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Theses of most recent Supreme Court and European Court of Justice rulings
26-03-2009
“Article 3 sec. 1 of Council regulation no. 1346/2000 dated 29 May 2000 on bankruptcy proceedings must be interpreted in such manner that the courts of a member state where bankruptcy proceedings have been initiated have jurisdiction to review ...
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Litigation News
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Surcharge for emission of gas and particles into the atmosphere may be disputed
Additional fees are charged for failure to hold a required permit to emit gas or particles into the atmosphere, intake water, or discharge wastewater. May such fees be challenged?
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Conversion of a sole trader into a capital company
It is now possible for a person conducting business as an individual to convert the business into a single-shareholder company, carrying over most elements of the existing business—except tax breaks.
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The company that swallowed its own tail
When acquiring shares it is important to examine whether either of the parties is a parent or subsidiary of the other. The existence of such ties may significantly restrict the acquirer’s share rights or even prevent effective acquisition of the shares.
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