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The Review of European and Comparative Law (od 1988 do 2018 r. jako The Review of Comparative Law; ISSN 0860-8156) ukazuje się jako czasopismo publikujące w języku angielskim artykuły autorów polskich i zagranicznych.
Review służy jako forum wymiany poglądów w szerszym, międzynarodowym kontekście. Dzięki niemu istnieje również możliwość prezentowania polskiego jurydycznego dorobku naukowego za granicą. Zgodnie z nazwą periodyku, zamysłem redaktorów jest chęć prezentowania instytucji prawnych w perspektywie europejskiej i komparatystycznej.
(English) Review of European and Comparative Law (from 1988 to 2018 as The Review of Comparative Law; ISSN 0860-8156) is a journal publishing articles by Polish and foreign authors, in English. The main purposes of Review of European and Comparative Law:
- to create a forum for exchanging views in a broader international context;
- to present Polish juridical scientific achievements abroad;
- to present legal institutions in a European and comparative perspective.
EDITORIAL TEAM:
Editor in chief:
Andrzej HERBET (Faculty of Law, Canon Law and Administration, The John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin, Poland)
Members of the editorial board:
Marcin BURZEC (Faculty of Law, Canon Law and Administration, The John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin, Poland)
Małgorzata GANCZAR (Faculty of Law, Canon Law and Administration, The John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin, Poland)
Luigi Mariano GUZZO (Università "Magna Graecia" di Catanzaro, Italy)
Milena KLOCZKOWSKA (Faculty of Law, Canon Law and Administration, The John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin, Poland)
Katarzyna MIASKOWSKA-DASZKIEWICZ (Faculty of Law, Canon Law and Administration, The John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin, Poland)
Soraya RODRIGUEZ LOSADA (University of Vigo, Spain)
Robert TABASZEWSKI (Faculty of Law, Canon Law and Administration, The John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin, Poland)
Jacek TRZEWIK (Faculty of Law, Canon Law and Administration, The John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin, Poland)
SCIENTIFIC COUNCIL:
Prof. Gabriel Bocksang Hola (Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Republic of Chile)
Prof. Paolo Carozza (Notre Dame Law School, USA)
Ks. Prof. dr hab. Antoni Dębiński (The John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin, Poland)
Prof. Xiangshun Ding (Renmin Law School, University of China, China)
Prof. Dr. Tamás M. Horváth (University of Debrecen, Hungary)
Prof. Miomira Kostić (University of Niš, Republic of Serbia)
Prof. Alfonso Martínez-Echevarría y García de Dueñas (University CEU San Pablo, Spain)
Prof. Carmen Parra Rodriguez (University Abat Oliba CEU, Spain)
Prof. Christoph U. Schmid (University of Bremen, Germany)
Prof. Gianluca Selicato (University of Bari Aldo Moro, Italy)
Prof. dr. Stanka Setnikar-Cankar (Dean of the Faculty of Administration, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia)
Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. mult. Reinhard Zimmermann (Max-Planck-Institut für ausländisches und internationales Privatrecht Hamburg, Germany)
e-ISSN: 2545-384X
DOI: 10.31743/recl
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- ItemA Bottom-up Look at Mutual Trust and the Legal Practice of the Aranyosi Test(Wydawnictwo KUL, 2023) Peristeridou, ChristinaThis contribution offers an insight into the legal practice of the Aranyosi test during the EAW proceedings in seven Member States, an outcome of the research conducted during the ImprovEAW Project. Only the executing judicial authorities of some Member States do trigger the test. Member States are roughly differentiated between those having facilities with usually bad or usually good detention conditions, promoting antagonistic relationships instead of equal partnership. The lack of streamlining of the communication when supplementary information is requested, the lack of common standards and approach towards guarantees lead to further misunderstandings and frustration. The findings of this research have revealed the importance of departing from a pure legal understanding of mutual trust and follow a more empirical, experiential or bottom-up concept. Mutual trust is not only a legal concept, but it underpins the legal culture of the cooperation and collegial attitudes of authorities towards one another. This expression of mutual trust remains quite undiscovered: how is miscommunication affecting mutual trust? Do judicial authorities of legal systems express collegiality to one another? How do cultural aspects and preconceived ideas regarding the quality of other legal systems influence mutual trust? Accordingly, some suggestions have been made to improve the cooperation and the establishment of rapport when supplementary information is requested. Finally, I advocate for a more neutral view towards the Aranyosi test. As opposed to considering it as a supervisory mechanism, I have explored the idea of approaching it as a risk management tool: it tackles risks created by mutual trust. Such approach helps both sides to take responsibility to avert ad hoc risks, instead of experiencing Aranyosi as a testing moment. Such approach centres the real problem, i.e. the risks created by mutual trust for individuals and it can stimulate more proactive policy-making in this regard.
- ItemA Double-Edged-Sword Approach to Fighting Pandemics: Patent Waivers and Incentives to Innovate(Wydawnictwo KUL, 2023) Kostka, Katarzyna; Kovač, MitjaAlthough continents recently experienced an apocalyptic pandemic that posed a mortal danger to millions of people, a new, even deadlier pandemic could soon emerge… The paper seeks to address the role played by patent waivers and current contractual arrangements in the pharmaceutical industry in addressing the dangers caused by the current and future pandemics. The process of waiving patents is explored where it is argued that it sadly cannot amount to the knight in shining armour that everyone has been expecting. Due to the lack of coordination, the tremendously long process, and the potential block in innovation arising from pharmaceutical companies having smaller incentives, more attention must be paid to other alternative institutional solutions. Drawing from the economics literature on innovation in the pharmaceutical sector, a conceptual framework is proposed for improved legal intervention in the case of patent waivers in international intellectual property law instruments. In addition, the paper provides a comparative law and economics treatment of current patent waivers in US, EU, and international law instruments.
- ItemA Few Remarks About Challenges in Application of Restorative Justice: A Case Study of Bosnia and Herzegovina(Wydawnictwo KUL, 2022) Kazić-Çakar, Ena; Ćorović, RialdaRestorative justice is without any doubt one of the most important steps in the development of criminal law, which at the same time increased the level of humanity in the approach towards perpetrators and victims and managed to achieve the principle goals of criminal law. A few decades have passed since its idea and approach was borrowed from the traditional communities that among themselves applied it for centuries, and it was transformed into the new approach of justice offering many benefits to the community where it is established. Formally, it has been more than 20 years since Bosnia and Herzegovina embraced restorative justice within its criminal law. This paper aims to discuss how much de facto it has been applied in this country and to present results of interviews with representatives from legal theory and practice where they refer to restorative justice and its major challenges for application and propose mechanisms for overcoming existing difficulties. In this article, the authors use normative, descriptive scientific methods and statistics and interviews as tools for the collection of data.
- ItemA Gloss to the Judgment of the Appellate Court in Warsaw of 28 May 2013 (VI Aca 785/13)(Wydawnictwo KUL, 2022) Witczak, HannaIn the glossed judgement, the Appellate Court examined the possibility of declaring the respondent unworthy of succession should he have committed the offence of avoidance of the duty of maintenance of the testator (Article 209 PC) or the offence of abandonment of the testator (Article 210 PC). The court’s considerations were purely hypothetical, as in the course of the proceedings, it was not proven whether the heir had actually committed these offences. The court allowed the recognition of the heir as unworthy if he had committed the offence of persistent avoidance of the duty of maintenance, but only if it could be proven. The court’s position raises certain doubts. Any conduct that violates familial nexus, in particular, should be verified for the existence of grounds for exclusion from succession, since this bond, in the legal sense, has its source in the relationship of marriage, consanguinity, and affinity, and these determine the legal title to inheritance. In particular, it is not understandable why persistent failure to fulfil family obligations, even if it is not an offence that a civil tribunal could additionally qualify as serious, does not actually produce legal consequences for the parent if the other party to the family relationship is a minor. It seems that wherever we are confronted with malicious and intentional failure to perform family duties, it should be assumed, provided that the statutory criteria of this specific type of offence are met, that in abstracto a serious offence has taken place.
- ItemA Parent Company’s Liability for Anti-Monopoly Damages to its Subsidiary’s Creditors Considering the New Regulations of Corporate Groups(Wydawnictwo KUL, 2022) Wieczerzyńska, BeataThe operations of a corporate group managed by a parent and guided by a shared strategy and interests of the group may in some cases cause damage to a subsidiary’s creditors. This study will in particular focus on the liability towards creditors for anti-monopoly damages caused by a breach of competition laws and not resulting from the binding orders of a parent company to its subsidiary. It is especially important to establish if and possibly how a parent’s liability arises for antimonopoly damages to its subsidiary’s creditors where it’s not related to a binding order, considering the special regulations of liability for damages caused by breaches of competition laws in the context of the new regulations of corporate groups.
- ItemAcademic Freedom: a Choice Between Conservative or Liberal Perceptions – the Case of the United States(Wydawnictwo KUL, 2020-09-01) Maćkowska, KatarzynaIt is only the minimum extent to which the law becomes the instrument of coping with social tautness regarding the academic freedom. On the one hand, legal provisions significantly limit the number of cases related to hate crimes but on the other, they sometimes narrow a discussion due to difficulties in harmonizing individual’s rights and campuses’ perception - a phenomenon, which in the U.S. had been called as “chilling” the freedom. Undoubtedly, the enactment of free speech or academic freedom regulations at universities is necessary as it helps to prevent from a “hate speech” but the legal shape of this process has been strictly connected to a determination for either liberal or conservative description of the academic freedom. Regarding the newest Niche’s rankings, ten universities have been selected, five out of the most liberal and five the most conservative public ones. Furthermore, two catholic universities have been added to describe differences in defining the academic freedom. Moreover, some references have been made to the U.S. Supreme Court decisions, and the very fundamental documents, namely the 1940 Statement and Harvard Free Speech Guidelines. In the separate article a problem of legislative acts that had been enacted for the past two years in a response to Report of the Committee on Freedom of Expression by the University of Chicago of 2014 will be covered. A few remarks upon this matter have been hereby made, though. The article is based on a dogmatic legal method, including quotations of legal sources and their subsequent analysis.
- ItemAccess to a Lawyer for a Suspect at Early Stage of Criminal Proceedings and Its Participation in Investigative Acts(Wydawnictwo KUL, 2020-06-30) Dzierżanowska, JoannaThis elaboration is dedicated to analysis of access to a lawyer for a suspect at early stage of criminal proceedings in Polish criminal law in the light of directive 2013/48/EU. In particular, it emphasizes the suspect's right of access to a lawyer during identity parade, confrontation and reconstruction of the scene of a crime. It considers whether the applicable legal provisions of the Polish Code of Criminal Procedure ensure, above all, appropriate scope of the right of the defence for the suspected person in view of the indicated evidentiary activities and whether this scope corresponds to the standards designated by the European Union directive 2013/48/EU.
- ItemAccess to a Lawyer for Suspects at the Police Station and During Detention Proceedings(Wydawnictwo KUL, 2020-06-30) Markiewicz, TymonDirective 2013/48/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council of 22 October 2013 on the right of access to a lawyer lays down minimum standards concerning access to a lawyer for suspects and the accused in criminal proceedings, as well as persons subject to the European arrest warrant proceedings. The present article focus on the subject of access to a lawyer at the earliest stage of criminal proceedings – in connection with arrest as well as during proceedings concerning the use of pre-trial detention. Author analyzes in sequence: subjective scope of the right to a lawyer, the right to a lawyer for the person deprived of liberty, confidentiality of communications between the person deprived of liberty and their lawyer. The main statement is that Poland does not meet that standard.
- ItemAccess to a Lawyer in Proceedings for Minor Offences Under Polish and European Union Law(Wydawnictwo KUL, 2020-06-30) Bień-Węgłowska, IwonaThe Article deals with the opportunity for a suspected person and the passive party in the proceedings for offences to exercise the right of access to a lawyer and the right of legal counsel. The aim of the article is to provide a comparative legal analysis of the provisions of the Code of Procedure in Minor Offences against the background of the EU guarantees under Directives 2013/48/EU and 2016/1919/EU. Directive 2013/48/EU deals with one of the two aspects of the aforementioned right: namely the right of access to a lawyer for suspects and accused persons in criminal proceedings, while the right to legal aid and to state-guaranteed legal assistance in certain circumstances is regulated by Directive 2016/1919/EU.
- ItemAchmea, Kramer and Disconnection Clauses. EU Legal Regionalism in Action(Wydawnictwo KUL, 2024) Láncos, Petra LeaOver the past decades, the European Union has been gradually developing and maintaining legal regionalism within its jurisdiction. Its purpose is to preserve the achievements of integration, as well as the unity and autonomy of EU law. In this paper, I recount the toolbox of EU legal regionalism from primary law, through the case law of the Court of Justice of the European Union, to the institution of the so-called disconnection clauses employed by the EU in certain international treaties, expanding also on their possible effects on international law and the Member States’ relations with third parties.
- ItemActual challenges for the implementation of judgments of the European Court of Human Rights(Wydawnictwo KUL, 2022) Jaskiernia, JerzyThe author analyzes the problem of the implementation of judgments of the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR). In light of the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR), a special role in its control mechanism is played by the Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe. Despite the measures taken, there have been delays in the execution of judgments or the lack of their implementation for years. The author analyzed this problem in light of the latest reports of the Committee of Ministers and the recommendations of the Parliamentary Assembly. He pointed to the need for greater activity in this process of other bodies of the Council of Europe, including: the Commissioner for Human Rights, the Venice Commission, the CPT, the ECRI as well as institutions of the civil society. In the last decade, the interest of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe in this matter has clearly increased. The author postulates that parliamentarians sitting in this body should be more active in this regard in their countries. They have instruments of control on the executive power, which could be used to increase the effectiveness of the execution of the ECtHR’s judgments.
- ItemAdministration of the Estate under Regulation (EU) No. 650/2012(Wydawnictwo KUL, 2021) Górecki, JacekIn the period between the deceased person’s death and division of assets in the deceased person’s estate among the heirs, an essential matter is administration of the estate. Persons exercising such administration should have adequate competences allowing them to perform factual and legal acts in relation to assets in the succession estate. The range of such persons and the scope of their competences differ in specific Member States of the EU. The law applicable to the administration of the estate, as well as other matters relating to succession, is currently designated by the Regulation (EU) No. 650/2012. This article is devoted to an analysis of the provisions of that Regulation on the administration of the estate. In addition, the article discusses the issue of qualifying the institution of succession administration as applicable in Poland with regard to an enterprise belonging to the succession estate. As a result of the investigations made, it can be concluded that administration of the estate is governed by the law applicable to the entirety of succession matters (lex successionis). This is the case also in respect of the succession administration recently introduced in Poland. Grounds for a different treatment of the succession administration cannot be found in Art. 30 of Regulation (EU) No. 650/2012.
- ItemAdmissibility of Evidence Obtained as a Result of Issuing an European Investigation Order in a Polish Criminal Trial(Wydawnictwo KUL, 2021) Kuczyńska, HannaThis article analyses the admissibility of evidence gathered by the Polish procedural authorities as a result of issuing an European Investigation Order, on the basis of provisions implemented due to the adoption on the 3rd of April 2014 of the Directive of the European Parliament and of the Council regarding the European Investigation Order in criminal matters. This Directive created a mechanism that allows for transfer of evidence between EU Member States. In this text, the question will be answered how to deal with results of investigative measures that have been legally obtained in the executing state but, despite acting in accordance with the legality principle by both states, happen to be illegal in the issuing Member State. Another discussed problem is how the rules of admissibility of evidence obtained from the result of issuing an EIO work in Poland – or at least how they should operate. The second discussed issue thus will refer to the current provisions in force in Poland regulating the method of dealing with evidence obtained abroad – that is also with evidence transferred from other Member States. It will be shown that they are unclear and may lead to undesirable results. In addition, suggested changes in Polish law will be proposed.
- ItemADR in Sport on the Example of Association Football in Poland and Ukraine(Wydawnictwo KUL, 2023) Sławicki, Piotr; Kryzhanivskyi, ViktorThe subject of this article is the use of ADR in sports disputes in association football under the Polish and Ukrainian law. Professional and amateur sport generates various types of disputes related to both disciplinary and civil cases, an example of which may be disputes arising during the execution of contracts binding players and football clubs. In the first part, the scope of disputes that are subject to ADR in association football is outlined. The next part presents legal solutions adopted under the Polish law in this respect, of which the activity of the Football Arbitration Court of the Polish Football Association is a particular example. The last chapter is devoted to the Ukrainian perspective on the resolution of disputes in association football.
- ItemApplicable Law Concerning Obligations Arising from the Infringements of Personal Data Laws Due to the Use of Artificial Intelligence Systems(Wydawnictwo KUL, 2023) Świerczyński, Marek; Więckowski, ZbigniewAn issue that is characteristic of AI is data processing on a massive scale (giga data, Big Data). This issue is also important because of the proposition to require manufacturers to equip AI systems with a means to record information about the operation of the technology, in particular the type and magnitude of the risk posed by the technology and any negative effects that logging may have on the rights of others. Data gathering must be carried out in accordance with the applicable laws, particularly data protection laws and trade secret protection laws. Therefore, it is necessary to determine the applicable law in line with existing conflict-of-law regulations.
- ItemApplication of the General Clause of Reasonableness and Criterion of Rationality in Polish Tax Law(Wydawnictwo KUL, 2020-12-11) Münnich, MonikaThis paper’s objective is to present two methods of introducing elements of the civil general clause of reasonableness into tax law. One of them is the lawmaking process, the other is the application of law, i.e. the decisions of tax authorities and the jurisprudence of national administrative courts.
- ItemArtificial intelligence systems and the right to good administration(Wydawnictwo KUL, 2022) Wróbel, Izabela MałgorzataThe use of AI in public administration is becoming a reality, although it is still a long way from large-scale undertakings. The right to good administration, well-established in EU legal order, is equally real, however, it must be borne in mind that this right has so far been defined only in relation to traditional administration. Therefore, the purpose of the paper is to examine whether the use of AI in public administration would allow individuals to fully exercise their right to good administration. To achieve this purpose, it is reconstructed, on the basis of EU law provisions in force and the case-law of the CJEU, the meaning and scope of the right to good administration, and analysed, taking into account a definition of AI systems and planned legislative changes, whether and to what extent the reconstructed understanding of this right enables the use of AI systems in public administration. In the course of research, the hypothesis that the right to good administration does not preclude the use of AI systems in public administration is verified. As the conducted analysis shows, the right to good administration as interpreted in traditional administration enables the use of AI systems in public administration, provided that the appropriate quality of these systems and the level of knowledge and skills of the parties and authorities are ensured.
- ItemAxiological paradigm of social inclusion intensification - selected remarks(Wydawnictwo KUL, 2019) Małecka-Łyszczek, Magdalena Iwona; Mędrzycki, RadosławThe following paper investigates the values building the axiological paradigm of social inclusion intensification using the legal doctrine. The analysis is set within the Polish legal system, which is part of the international and EU law established for the maintenance of social cohesion. On the one hand, the Polish solutions not only stem from the European civilization heritage, but also create and reinforce it. The individual sections of the paper provide an analysis of such inclusive values as dignity, freedom, equality, common good and social solidarity which are assumed to be the basis for all inclusive actions performed within civil societies in democratic states based on the rule of law. The analysis also considers a possible hierarchy of those values and how they affect each other. While the inclusive values themselves appear to be universal, their relations and influence on each other (possibly: hierarchy) is strictly dependent on the national legislation. The research has shown the way in which the investigated values/principles coexist. Human dignity has been found to be the fundamental and supreme value of the Polish legal system, while social solidarity supports social cohesion. It is not possible to artificially separate those values – only when they intertwine, complete and enhance each other can the inclusive actions be designed and executed in the most advantageous manner. Therefore, values and rules which bear them form a praxeological system; they must be interpreted only within the context of their coexistence, relations and the influence they have on one another. Each of the discussed values takes part in the establishment of the resources shared by a democratic state and by the internal structures of the civil society existing within this state’s bounds. Only by taking them all into consideration can we provide an adequate and comprehensive understanding of inclusivity and achieve its desired model.
- ItemBeneficial Ownership – Demand for Transparency, Threat to Privacy(Wydawnictwo KUL, 2023) Cindori, SonjaThe basic idea behind establishing the register of beneficial owners is to increase the transparency and accessibility of data on beneficial ownership of companies and other legal entities with the aim of ensuring the public availability of data on domestic and foreign natural and legal persons. However, the possibility of the data being accessible to the general public instead of to persons or organizations that can demonstrate a legitimate interest raised the issue of violating the principles of respect for private or family life and the protection of personal data. Consequently, this raises the question of drawing the line between contributing to the common good and fighting against money laundering and terrorist financing, on the one hand, and protecting personal data, with the possibility of their misuse, on the other. A balance as well as a response to the possibility of setting soft limits of legitimate interest that would result in the achievement of all set goals was sought in the practice of the European Court of Justice. One of the legislative solutions regarding the extent of access to data on beneficial owners for the entire public, along with the establishment of different types of registers in order to prevent money laundering and terrorist financing, is described using the example of Croatia.
- ItemBetween Enabling Law and Protecting Law – Some Remarks on the Method of Regulating the Law of Groups of Companies in Polish Commercial Companies Code(Wydawnictwo KUL, 2023) Herbet, AndrzejAlthough the groups of companies have been an indispensable part of the modern economy for several decades, they still continue to attract unwavering attention of both practice and doctrine of corporate law. The numerous legal challenges posed by the functioning of multi-level structures, based on diverse types of dominance and dependance relations adopt different regulatory strategies manifest a universal appeal. Yet, the national legislators adopt different regulatory strategies, aimed at securing the interests of various stakeholders, including minority shareholders, dependent companies and their creditors. As a result, the contemporary discourse entails two concepts – one emphasizing the risks and responsibilities associated with it (protecting law) and the other one, supporting the creation of groups, as well as instruments for their effective management (enabling law). The aim of the article is to verify the extent to which these concepts are addressed by the most recent Polish group law regulations, viewed in a comparative context outlined by selected European jurisdictions.