Samorząd gospodarczy w państwach Unii Europejskiej
Economic self-government in European Union states

Summary/Abstract: The most popular form of economic self-government are chambers of commerce and industry. The scope of their tasks is stipulated by act of law and they perform these tasks freely and independently from other bodies of public administration. The scope of their tasks provides a measure of the extent to which the state administration is decentralized in the economic realm and expresses the state’s trust in the civic power, as well as the conviction that in the matters of local economy citizens are more competent than government officials. Thanks to economic self-government the community of entrepreneurs is transformed from individual, scattered entities into an organized body governed by public law, or a sovereign community with administrative powers. When describing the political position and the scope of tasks of economic self-government it is more than justified to refer to the EU’s experience, where chambers of commerce and industry have been a significant representation of entrepreneurial interests for many years.

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