1 Prof. dr hab. Hubert Izdebski

2 Projekt : „Odpowiedź na wyzwania gospodarki opartej na wiedzy: nowy program nauczania na WSHiP”. Projekt współfinansowany ze środków Unii Europejskiej w ramach Europejskiego Funduszu Społecznego.

3  Fundamental legal sources:  Constitution of the Republic of Poland: Articles 20, 22 and 31 item 3

4  Fundamental legal sources:  Charter of Fundamental Rights of the EU: Articles 16 and 52  (the question of its binding force in Poland in the light of Protocol no. 30 of the Lisbon Treaty)

5 Fundamental legal sources: Treaty on EU functioning: Articles 49-62, 101-109 and 169

6 Fundamental legal sources: Law of 2 July 2004 on freedom of business activity (Dz.U. of 2010 No. 220, item 1447 with subs. amend.)

7 Basic Concepts: a) business activity (działalność gospodarcza) b) entrepreneur (przedsiębiorca) c) undertaking (enterprise, przedsiębiorstwo): micro-, small, medium d) foreign undertaking (przedsiębiorca zagraniczny) – branch office and representative office

8 Basic Concepts: public interest, import ant public interest way of parliamentary act (droga ustawy) proportionality

9 Basic Concepts: regulation, regulated activity concession (koncesja) – not to confuse with the concession for public works/services, permit/permission (zezwolenie, pozwolenie) licence (licencja)

10 Basic Concepts: registration/inscription in the list of individual enterpreneurs (ewidencja działalności gospodarczej) inspection control supervision administrative punishment vs. criminal punishment

11 Law of Competition: differences in American and European Approach state aid admissible in terms of Article 107 of the Treaty on the UE functioning

12 Example of Telecommunications Law EU legal infrastructure: Directive 2002/21/EC of 7 March 2002 of the European Parliament and the Council on a common regulatory framework for electronic communication networks and services (OJ L 108 of 24.4.2002) – with particular Directives 2002/19, 20, and 22) Polish Law of 16 July 2004 -Telecommunications Law (Dz.U. of 2004 No. 171, item 1800 with numerous subs. amend.) Definition of “universal service”

13 Projekt : „Odpowiedź na wyzwania gospodarki opartej na wiedzy: nowy program nauczania na WSHiP”. Projekt współfinansowany ze środków Unii Europejskiej w ramach Europejskiego Funduszu Społecznego.