Koncepcja Krakowskiego Związku Metropolitalnego w senackim projekcie Ustawy
The concept of the Krakow Metropolitan Union in Senate bill

Summary/Abstract: A metropolitan association is a legal form of an association of local government unitscharacterised by strong functional connections, advanced urbanisation processes, andlocated in a spatially coherent area. The Senate of the Republic of Poland adopted the draftAct on the establishment of the Kraków Metropolitan Union on July 14, 2023. The act creatednew opportunities for the city of Krakow and 14 neighbouring communes, and one of thebenefits resulting from its adoption was to be additional revenues to the budget of localgovernment units associated in the union. However, for the adopted regulations to enter into force, their acceptance by the Sejm [the Lower House of Parliament] of the Republic ofPoland was required, but this did not happen due to the end of the parliamentary term. Theaim of this study is to analyse the concept of establishing the Krakow Metropolitan Unionincluded in the Senate bill on the Krakow Metropolitan Union Act. The particular value ofthe study is the fact that its author was involved from the very beginning in the processof creating the draft Act, its initial assumptions and provisions as adopted by the Senate.The research goal is defined by the choice of research methods, and the document analysismethod was used to prepare this study. Document examination is aimed at reproducingthe real activity or state of the analysed organisational structure in the form of a legally orcustomarily prepared document. This method involves collecting, selecting, describing andscientifically interpreting data obtained from a given document.

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