Remote Inspection of Businesses in Poland during the COVID-19 Pandemic

Anna Hołda-Wydrzyńska

doi:10.25167/osap.4834

Remote Inspection of Businesses in Poland during the COVID-19 Pandemic

Anna Hołda-Wydrzyńska

Uniwersytet Śląski

DOI: https://doi.org/10.25167/osap.4834

Abstract

The extraordinary situation in which entrepreneurs and public administration bodies found themselves during the COVID-19 pandemic had its impact also on polish legal regulations. The exceptional circumstances have had their bearing on the provisions of the Polish Law on Entrepreneurs Act of 6 March 2018 under which the manner in which inspection bodies contact inspected businesses, has changed in the wake of the ongoing global COVID-19 pandemic. The amendment to the provisions of the Law on Entrepreneurs introduced to the Polish legal order a formula of the so-called remote or hybrid inspections of businesses. The purpose of this article is to present the conditions and principles of conducting remote and hybrid inspections in Poland.

Keywords:

remote inspection, hybrid inspection, the Law on Entrepreneurs Act

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Hołda-Wydrzyńska, A. (2023). Remote Inspection of Businesses in Poland during the COVID-19 Pandemic. The Opole Studies in Administration and Law, 20(2), 47–60. https://doi.org/10.25167/osap.4834

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