Right to error during the first year of operation; consumer protection, i.e. the right to complain for companies registered in CEIDG; a number of facilities for craftsmen - these are just some of the provisions of the Friendly Law Package (PPP), which will come into force soon.
The President of the Republic of Poland Andrzej Duda has signed an amendment to the Regulatory Act. The Package also includes provisions regarding the extension to August 13, 2019 of the deadline for submitting statements entitling micro and small entrepreneurs to maintain energy prices from June last year. The Friendly Law Package is several dozen point simplifications for business. The package also eliminates cases of inconsistency or excessive restrictiveness of our law. Its goal is to create better conditions for the development of micro, small and medium enterprises. PPP is complementary to 100 changes for companies, the Business Constitution, the SME Package and other facilities for entrepreneurs. The common goal of these projects is to facilitate, especially for smaller companies, business operations.
The Friendly Law Package is a reaction to still unjustified restrictions or lack of flexibility in our law. For example, extending the VAT settlement date in import is a response to current practice, in which only some importers can use the general principles of VAT settlement. And the proposal to introduce the right to error was born from the feeling that the current regulations, which penalize a novice entrepreneur for minor offenses that result from ignorance, are too restrictive.
The draft also provides for limiting administrative obligations, including limiting reporting obligations by:
- reduction in the frequency of implementation of certain obligations (e.g. quarterly providing information to the Minister of Energy about the costs incurred for the creation and maintenance of mandatory reserves of crude oil or fuels; quarterly reports of the electricity DSO and gas DSO for the Director General of KOWR; quarterly statistical information on the total value and number of payment transactions submitted through payment service offices to the PFSA),
- digitization of certain reporting obligations and limitation of the number of bodies to which documents are submitted (e.g. the obligation to submit reports on the types and quantities of liquid fuels produced, imported and exported and their purpose, information on the types and location of liquid fuel infrastructure used for conducted operations),
- abolishing the obligation to attach documents that are available to the institution or contain information that it can determine (e.g. abolishing the obligation to attach copies of the National Court Register, abolishing the requirement to attach the original certificate of obtaining a positive exam result to the application for granting a restructuring advisor license, when examination files of persons who took the exam are kept at the seat of the Ministry of Justice),
- reduction in the number of copies of documents attached to applications (in the case of an application for the issue or change of an integrated permit, submission of claims by the yard's creditors, qualification application, geological documentation regarding the maritime areas of the Republic of Poland).
The new rules will enter into force on January 1, 2020, except for some articles that will come into force on other dates.
More details at: https://www.gov.pl/web/przedsiebiorczosc-technologia