Ewolucja rządowej procedury prawodawczej w latach 2015–2021 – wybrane zagadnienia
Amendments to governmental legislative procedure (2015–2021) – selected issues

Summary/Abstract: Governmental legislative procedure with parliamentary legislative procedure are the most important types of legislative procedures and sources of absolute majority of legal acts. Therefore all amendments to these procedures are worth analysing to verify an impact on quality of drafting legal acts. The article describes main changes introduced to Polish governmental legislative procedure from 2015 to 2021. During this period the current political majority created government who was able to reform the procedure according to defined needs. The subject of science interest determines historical legal analysis as the main methodology. There were three main amendments introduced to the governmental legislative procedure during this period: reducing the role and finally cancelling assumptions of a draft bill as a separate type of pre-legislative document; reducing the possibility of Team of Government Work Programming to block on early stage of the procedure any of draft bill; extending of the scope of bodies participating in interministerial consultations. All presented changes shall be found as having negative influence on legislative procedure coherence. Regardless of the assumptions of their authors the changes are going to weaken the position of a prime minister and bodies subordinated to a prime minister. Despite all critical remarks the author of the article emphasizes there are no important difficulties for a government to play its crucial role at submitting draft bills to the parliament.

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