Month: November 2021

We have the pleasure to inform that Piotr Świstak and Tomasz Krzywański have joined the group of GWW partners.

Piotr will handle the development of tax security and compliance practices. He will be in charge of the implementation and development of solutions ensuring safety of the management board members and corporate officers in the field of liability for tax reporting obligations, with particular emphasis on the risk of penal fiscal liability. His activities will also include continuation of the work on  digitization of this area.

Tomasz, hand in hand with Aldona Leszczyńska-Mikulska, will be responsible for the development of the advisory practice for wealthy clients (private client practice). He will focus on providing advice in the field of ​​business succession. Tomek will be mainly in charge of asset-related planning with the use of foundations and trusts – especially the Polish family foundation.

We wish them both good luck and plenty of successes in their new roles!

The 13th edition of the largest Polish conference dedicated to financial and accounting staff of public finance sector units will take place from 29 November to 1 December. It will be held in Hotel Copernicus in Toruń

On the first day of the conference, an expert on public procurement in EU projects, Grzegorz Karwatowicz, will discuss the impact of financial corrections on the financial settlement of an EU project.

The conference will be organized in a hybrid form. More information available on: https://forum.finansepubliczne.pl/

This year's Conference of the Lower Silesian Regional Chamber of Architects held at the Wojanów Palace was devoted to issues related to the digitization of the investment and construction process. It included discussion panels relatign to key problems that emerge at various stages of the investment process.

Ms. Dorota Cabańska, acting Chief Inspector of Construction Supervision, was invited to the meeting and presented key issues regarding the implementation of the next stage of digitization.

Also Joanna Sebzda-Załuska, GWW partner, was invited to participate in the event and she discussed the most common, from the designer's perspective, problems at the stage of obtaining administrative decisions. Ms. Joanna Sebzda-Załuska also took part in an expert panel related to the procedure of obtaining an occupancy permit for building structures.

In principle, the Public Procurement Law does not allow for the retention of a bid security after the expiry of the bid validity period. This results from several factors, including the very nature of the bid security itself. More information about this subject can be found in the latest article by our attorney Paweł Rożyński, who specializes in public procurement law.

The article is available here: http://lexplorers.pl/zatrzymanie-wadium-po-uplywie-terminu-zwiazania-oferta-pzp/

The National E-Invoice System will start operating starting from the new year and from 2023, its use will be obligatory. The amendment, which has already been signed by the President, introduces new obligations and the necessity to provide much more information about the transaction.

Commentary of our VAT expert, Zdzisław Modzelewski, for the prawo.pl portal: https://www.prawo.pl/podatki/e-faktury-w-ksef-zakres-informacji-od-2022-roku,511773.html

Local governments will soon have to use electric and gas-powered vehicles – this is certain in the light of the new Act on Electromobility. The question is: on what principles, when and to what extent, and – which is crucial for us – how the Public Procurement Law will relate to it. These and other issues are elaborated on by Paweł Rożyński in his article on Lexplorers.

Link to the article: http://lexplorers.pl/zamowienia-publiczne-a-ustawa-o-elektromobilnosci/

We would like to invite you to the training held by Martyna Sługocka, Ph. D., during which our expert will explain how to challenge provisions of already existing local spatial development plans and what can be helpful in their interpretation.

Training date: November 19, 2021, 11:00 am.

Agenda:

• Supervision over local spatial development plans,
• Provisions of alocal plan in breach of law,
• Possibility of individual challenging of the local plan,
• Consequences of declaring the local plan invalid,
• Application for amendment to the local plan,
• Planning procedure,
• Entities authorized to interpret provisions of the local plan.

The training is free of charge. It is organized by Wolters Kluwer.

REGISTRATION

The authorities that had so far exercised control and supervisory powers in the field of building law with regard to houses without a building permit, have been almost completely deprived of them. The amendment to the Construction Law and the Act on Spatial Planning and Development, implementing the announcements of the Polish Deal, is to enter into force on January 3, 2021, howere it does not apply to "small houses".

Commentary by Joanna Sebzda-Załuska, attorney-at-law and expert on the investment process, in today's edition of Dziennik Gazeta Prawna.

Link to the article: https://serwisy.gazetaprawna.pl/nieruchomosci/artykuly/8293766,polski-lad-nowelizacja-prawa-budowlanego-male-domy-70-mkw.html

Introduction of a system of accelerated registration of trademarks and industrial designs, called Fast Track procedure, is a considerable change for persons applying for marks and designs directly and for their professional representatives in proceedings before the Patent Office of the Republic of Poland. Patent attorney Anna Dębek presents insights into the new system after six months of its functionning.

The article is available on the GWW Lexplorers legal portal: http://lexplorers.pl/fast-track-nowy-system-rejestracji-znakow-towarowych-wzorow-przemyslowych-procedura/  

Business activity is often run by two partners in the form of a general partnership. However, there may be a conflict between them. Will the submission by one of the partners of a declaration on termination of the deed of partnership lead to its dissolution?

Marcin Borkowski, Ph.D., answers this question in Dziennik Gazeta Prawna.

Link to the article: https://www.gazetaprawna.pl/firma-i-prawo/artykuly/8292312,spolka-wspolnik-majatek-firmy.html