Sejm i Senat wobec wyzwań Unii Europejskiej
Polish Sejm and Senate, and challenges of the European Union

Summary/Abstract: The article’s goal is to present the consequences of Polish membership in the European Union (EU) forthe functioning of the Polish Sejm and Senate at the national and international level. Polish accession tothe European Union resulted in changes to the scope of competences of certain organs of the Republicof Poland. This was related to the transfer of specific state competences to an international organizationand it applied, in particular, to the Polish Parliament (the Sejm and Senate) which has lost its primary roleas legislator of laws applicable in Poland. In order to avoid the marginalization of national parliamentsin the EU decision-making process, appropriate legal measures have been introduced at the nationaland international level. Additionally, after the Treaty of Lisbon entered into force, national parliamentshave received new competences which allowed them to exist on the forum of the European Union. Thearticle puts forward the thesis that the Polish Sejm and Senate have lost their position as main legislativebodies at the national level but, at the same time, they have acquired a new European function whichcan neither be qualified as traditionally understood legislative nor controlling functions.

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