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What is an abnormally low price, and what is just a good bargain? In public procurements, this will be decided not by the market, but by the contracting authority. No price will automatically be deemed to constitute “dumping,” even if it is more than 30% below the other tenders and the contracting authority’s budget. But everyone will pay the price for “cheap” public contracts.

For many businesses, completion of a project and payout of the funding mark the symbolic end of the cofinancing process. But in practice completion of the project does not mean an end to the relationship with the financing institution. Some obligations continue after completion of the project, over the entire durability period and also after the end of the durability period. The significance of these obligations is most often revealed during an inspection or audit, a reorganisation of the enterprise, or an M&A transaction, when it turns out the project, although formally completed, must still comply with the contract.

The news is not yet official. The proposal for an EU regulation on public contracts and concessions (replacing three procurement directives from 2014) leaked on social media in July 2026, but formal publication of the proposal is not expected until September. Until then, the contents are supposed to be confidential. Nonetheless, it has been discussed among procurement specialists for weeks. If the decision holds to reframe European public procurement law as an EU regulation rather than a set of directives, it will be the most sweeping change in the legal architecture of this area in decades. That issue is no longer a secret.

Must foreign insurance companies operating in Poland under the freedom to provide services or the freedom of establishment comply with the Polish regulator’s new standards for insurance distribution?
 

In the social media era, what we buy isn’t driven by television or billboards as much as it is by “likes,” “stories,” and recommendations from content creators followed by thousands or millions of internet users. Influencer marketing has become one of the most powerful selling tools in recent history. But that doesn’t mean that all forms of advertising are permissible on social media.

One of the countries that regularly submits extradition requests to Poland is the Swiss Confederation—a country that is universally associated with safety, economic development, and a high standard of living. What is the current state of Polish-Swiss extradition cooperation?

A year might seem like a long time, but it’s not much for rebuilding processes for remote identification and verification of customers’ identity for anti–money-laundering purposes. In 2027, institutions will face two related reforms. First, the AMLR (Regulation (EU) 2024/1624) will begin to apply directly, along with the regulatory technical standards for due diligence of customers. Second, 2027 will be a key year for application of the changes under eIDAS 2.0 (Regulation (EU) 2024/1183), implementing the European Digital Identity Wallet (EUDIW). What will change for obliged entities?

The Baltic Sea is undergoing an economic rebirth. Seaborne trade and offshore wind energy are driving a new wave of activity for the Polish shipyard industry. More and more shipbuilding contracts are being signed with Polish shipyards or governed by Polish law. This makes it increasingly relevant to examine the standard forms on which these contracts are based—and the legal and business consequences flowing from the choice of a particular form.

On 14 May 2026 a seven-judge panel of the Civil Chamber of the Supreme Court of Poland issued a resolution in case no. III CZP 25/25 holding that the amount of damages for improper performance of a contract for construction works cannot automatically be equated to the expenditures necessary to cure defects in the construction. The issue arose in a dispute between companies over recovery of costs for repair of a building’s thermal insulation.

Shared-services centres functioning within a group may formally have the status of an “obliged entity” under anti money laundering and countering financing of terrorism regulations, even though the AML/CFT risk associated with their operation is minimal in practice. Is there any chance that the EU’s AMLR, which enters into force on 10 July 2027, can change this situation?

On 26 June 2026 the Polish Financial Supervision Authority (KNF) issued its Recommendations for Insurance Undertakings on Insurance Distribution. The document is a major step in the process of clarifying the rules for distribution of insurance products on the Polish market and sets new standards which insurers will need to comply with. 

Last September we reported on proposed amendments to the Environmental Protection Law. The changes were designed to allow ecological organisations and other stakeholders to effectively challenge air quality programmes throughout Poland. Ultimately the proposal was not adopted, but a new version of the proposal was recently released.