CENTRAL AND EAST EUROPE LEGAL SYSTEMS AND LEGAL INFORMATION: AN INTRODUCTION THURSDAY, 21 FEBRUARY 2002

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1 CENTRAL AND EAST EUROPE LEGAL SYSTEMS AND LEGAL INFORMATION: AN INTRODUCTION THURSDAY, 21 FEBRUARY 2002 GENERAL INFORMATION ON LEGAL SOURCES IN POLAND and Dr. Loukas A. Mistelis, Queen Mary, University of London Rzeczpospolita Polska ( Republic) Capital: Warsaw (Warszawa) Population estimate, 2000: m GNP per capita: (PPP$) 6,000 HDI/world rank: 0.851/52 Key historical events Territory and population Social statistics Constitution and government Economy Social institutions Culture Recommended books Norman Davies, The Heart of Europe. A Short History of Poland, Oxford and New York: OUP 1986 Norman Davies, God's Playground, Oxford 1981, New York Eva Hoffman, Lost in Translation 1

2 GENERAL INFORMATION I wish to gratefully acknowledge the kind and generous assistance of Tomasz Koz³owski, Agata Mazurowska-Rozdeiczer and Rafa³ Zwierz in the compilation of the links. I. STATE AND GOVERNMENT 1 Parliament and 2 Senate and 3 Ministry of National Education and Sport 4 Ministry of Finances and 5 Ministry of Economy and 6 Ministry of Infrastructure 7 Ministry of Culture 8 Ministry of National Defence and 9 Ministry of Labour and Social Policy 10 Ministry of Agriculture and Rural and Development 11 Ministry of the Treasury and 12 Ministry of Internal Affairs and and Administration 13 Ministry of Foreign Affairs and 14 Ministry of Justice 15 Ministry of Environment 16 Ministry of Health 17 Consumer and Competition and Protection Office 18 State Sports Administration and 19 President of Republic of Poland 20 Structure of local government and /plpro.html 21 General portal on Poland and 22 Country study area Handbook from the Library of Congress 23 Informative portal and Englis 24 Links to major institutions l 25 Agency for Foreign and Investment 26 Overview of legal system sh.htm 2

3 II. CONSTITUTION OF REPUBLIC OF POLAND NO. WEBSITE LANGUAGE VERSION and 2 and ; former constitutions 3 Poland's Accession to EU - Report Prepared for the EC: III. COURT SYSTEM 1 Constitutional Court 2 Supreme Court and 3 General information: 4 Overview: udiciary.html 5 Overview: ourtprocedure.html 6 Judicial System in the Context of EU Intergation: zin/word2.htm 7 Arbitration in Poland docs/a4.htm mic%20guide%202000/chapter08/c ap81.htm ications/pub.asp?publication_id=119 IV. COLLECTION OF LAWS NO. ELECTRONIC DATABASES WEBSITE LANGUAGE VERSION 1 Official Journals of Law edited at Parliament 2 LEX Publishing House 3 LEX Polonica (only some legal acts) 4 Certain Laws and Judicial and Decisions.html 5 Commercial Law Foundation 6 EBRD Secured Transactions egal/survey/tables/poland.pdf 7 COLPI Links ounte.htm 8 Gonzaga law library d.htm 3

4 NO. COLLECTIONS OF LEGAL TEXTS NAMES 1. Law Collection (collection of the most important legal acts)* 2. Business Law Collection (collection of the most important legal acts)* NAME AND ADDESS OF THE PUBLISHING HOUSE KiK Konieczny i Kruczewski ul. Plocka 5a, Warszawa fax: informacje@kik.com.pl Tepis Publishing House P.O. Box Warsaw 86 Poland 3. codes and legal acts C.H. Beck, ul. Gen. Zajaczka Warsaw, fax: redakcja@beck.pl LANGUAGE VERSION (Commercial Companies Code in and German) 4. codes and legal acts updated on regular basis Wydawnictwo Prawnicze LexisNexis Sp. z o.o. ul. Gen. Sosnkowskiego Warsaw Fax: biuro@lexisnexis.pl V. MAIN UNIVERSITIES 1. Warsaw University and 2. Gdañsk University and 3. Poznañ University and 4. Jagiellonian University and 5. University of ódÿ and 6. Lublin University 7. Nicholas Copernicus University in and Toruñ 8. Opole University and 9. Szczecin University Silesia University Rzeszow University University of Warmia and Mazury and 13. Wroc³aw University Cardinal Stefan Wyszynski University in Warsaw 15. Zielona Gora University Catholic University of Lublin and 17. state archives g.html 18. Sejm library Central Statistical Office The National Library in Warsaw 4

5 VI. MAIN NEWSPAPERS NO. NAME WEBSITE LANGUAGE VERSION 1 Rzeczpospolita 2 Gazeta Wyborcza 3 Newsweek Polska 4 Warsaw Voice ml 5 Polityka (the Politics) 6 Gazeta Prawna (Legal Nespaper) 7 ycie 8 Wprost 9 Prawo i Gospodarka (The Law and the Economy) 10 Comparative Law Review awnictwa/clr, German, French 11 Forum Doradców Podatkowych (Tax Advisor s Forum) two pages in 12 Forum VII. MAIN LAW PUBLISHERS NO. NAME WEBSITE LANGUAGE VERSION 1 ABC and 2 Ars Boni At Eequi 3 C.H. Beck 4 Difin 5 Dr¹gowski SA 6 Forum 7 KiK Konieczny i Kruszewski 8 LEX Wydawnictwo Prawnicze and (Publishing House) 9 LexisNexis 10 Wydawnictwo Sejmowe (Parliament s Publishing House) 11 Zakamycze 5