From time to time our clients or acquaintances ask me whether there is an obligation to have business bank account. On one hand no one is able to point out the provision introducing such obligation, but on the other hand…
On October 13th, 2019, came into force the provisions of the Act on Combating Money Laundering and the Financing of the Terrorism (hereinafter referred to as “the Act”), introducing the Central Register of Beneficial Owners (hereinafter referred to as “the…
Split payment was introduced on July 1st, 2018. Currently it is fully for volunteers. From November 1st, 2019, the majority of entrepreneurs will still have choice. However, in some cases split payment will be obligatory. Transactions for Which Split Payment…
Protection right for the national trademark lasts 10 years. If the protection right holder wants the protection of his trademark to continue, he has to prolong it for subsequent 10-year period. Before March 16th, 2019, in order to do that…
On August 21st, 2019, the amendment of the Act on Court Fees in Civil cases, introducing new, higher fees, came into force. Below I present selected changes. Fixed Court Fee Fixed fee should be paid in the non-property right cases…
On March 1st, 2019, a small, but making operation of limited liability companies easier, change of the Polish Commercial Companies Code came into force. In the event of exercising by the shareholder the voting right on the shareholders meeting by…
An amendment of the Industrial Property Law enacted on February 20th, 2019, constituting implementation of the Directive (EU) 2015/2436 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 16 December 2015, aiming at approximation of the Member States’ laws on…
If a limited liability company hasn’t approved the financial statement yet (I think that there are quite many of such companies), today is one of the last two days, when it can be done. According to Article 231 of the…
At the turn of July and August, one of our lawyers - Tomasz Korolko took part in the seminar on anti-monopoly law enforcement in China, organized by the Chinese Ministry of Commerce. For two weeks, together with over fourty officials…
From 9th to 29th August 2017, together with Tomasz Korolko, we took part in the seminar concerning food safety in China, financed by the Ministry of Commerce of the People's Republic of China. Several dozen of officials from ministries, administrative…