Importance of the Amendment of the Act on Compulsory Insurance and the Act on Insurance and Reinsurance Activity of 28 May 2020

2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (105) ◽  
pp. 3-14
Author(s):  
Beata Mrozowska - Bartkiewicz

The Act of May 28, 2020 amended the Act on Compulsory Insurance, the Insurance Guarantee Fund and the Polish Motor Insurers’ Bureau as well as the Act on Insurance and Reinsurance Activity in order to introduce efficient mechanisms and instruments to supervise foreign (re)insurance companies from the European Union Member States other than the Republic of Poland pursuing activity on the territory of Poland through a branch or in any other way under the freedom to provide services. This amendment under which the Polish Financial Supervision Authority (KNF) obtained new powers towards these entities introduced a significant change to the legal system. The KNF has been empowered to apply certain sanctions (fines) for exceeding statutory deadlines for the payment of compensation by foreign insurers, and in particular it may apply the prompt intervention mechanism if it proves necessary to remove irregularities immediately, without having to notify the competent home state supervisory authority beforehand and having to wait for its proper response. In this case, the KNF will be authorised to apply all the powers to which it is entitled towards domestic (re)insurance undertakings.

2021 ◽  
pp. 187-218
Author(s):  
Ivana Vasic ◽  
Nenad Rankovic ◽  
Jelena Nedeljkovic ◽  
Dragan Nonic

The paper analyses regulatory frameworks (strategies and laws) in the field of nature conservation and forestry, i.e. measures and activities for managing protected areas under climate changes in selected countries of central and southeast Europe. This research aims to identify the presence of different measures and activities in strategies and laws on nature conservation and forestry, as well as their systematization and comparison. The analysis has been conducted for 5 countries: Germany (the federal state of Baden-W?rttemberg), Slovenia, Croatia, Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina (the Republic of Srpska). It can be concluded that the level of representation of observed measures and activities for managing protected areas differs within the regulatory frameworks of the selected counties. Within the strategies and laws on nature conservation, it can be noticed that they comprise a larger number of measures and activities for managing protected areas than in the field of forestry. Additionally, there is a clear distinction between the European Union member states and those who are not members. Some activities are insufficiently or barely implemented in both nature conservation and forestry.


2018 ◽  
Vol 17 (3) ◽  
pp. 75-84
Author(s):  
Irena Ozimek ◽  
Agnieszka Bobola ◽  
Julita Szlachciuk

The aim of the study is to analyse the diversity of the innovation scale of particular voivodships in Poland as well as to present Poland’s innovativeness in comparison to other countries. The authors of this paper have carried out scientific studies and analyses, taking into consideration the data for 2010–2017, published, among others, by Central Statistical Office (Główny Urząd Statystyczny), the European Commission and the Patent Office of the Republic of Poland (Urząd Patentowy Rzeczypospolitej Polskiej). The scope of the analyses concerned the innovative activities of Poland against the background of other countries, in particular, the European Union Member States as well as the diversification of the innovative activity of entrepreneurs conducting business activity in particular voivodships in Poland. It should be noted that there is a significant regional differentation in this respect.


2016 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 130-149
Author(s):  
Albertas Milinis ◽  
Kristina Pranevičienė

Abstract This article deals with the issues concerning the communication between the national courts of the European Union Member States and the Court of Justice of the European Union via the preliminary ruling procedure. The doctrines of acte clair and acte éclairé are described briefly in the article. The authors explicitly investigate the national court’s right to apply to the Court of Justice of the European Union and the obligation to apply to the Court of Justice of the European Union for a preliminary ruling. The recent tendencies in the jurisprudence of the national courts of the Republic of Lithuania while applying for preliminary rulings are revealed.


2020 ◽  
pp. 203228442097974
Author(s):  
Sibel Top ◽  
Paul De Hert

This article examines the changing balance established by the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) between human rights filters to extradition and the obligation to cooperate and how this shift of rationale brought the Court closer to the position of the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) in that respect. The article argues that the ECtHR initially adopted a position whereby it prioritised human rights concerns over extraditions, but that it later nuanced that approach by establishing, in some cases, an obligation to cooperate to ensure proper respect of human rights. This refinement of its position brought the ECtHR closer to the approach adopted by the CJEU that traditionally put the obligation to cooperate above human rights concerns. In recent years, however, the CJEU also backtracked to some extent from its uncompromising attitude on the obligation to cooperate, which enabled a convergence of the rationales of the two Courts. Although this alignment of the Courts was necessary to mitigate the conflicting obligations of European Union Member States towards both Courts, this article warns against the danger of making too many human rights concessions to cooperation in criminal matters.


2019 ◽  
Vol 53 (1) ◽  
pp. 55-67
Author(s):  
Grzegorz Górniewicz

Abstract The aim of the article is to present budget deficit and government debt in the European Union member states, with particular consideration of the countries that belong to the PIIGS group. This paper has focused on the scale of these phenomena, on their reasons and on some attempts made to improve the unfavourable situation. In the main thesis presented in the article, it is stated that budget deficit and general government debt come as significant threats to economic security of the European Union (EU) countries. The research methods that have been applied in the study involve descriptive analysis and statistical data analysis.


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