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The aim of the work is to analyze screening procedures for the access to secret information. It shows its complexity, dynamics and procedural stipulations. On the one hand, they are to guarantee tightness in the access to secret information; on the other hand, they should protect an individual from the arbitrariness of governing bodies. The main method adopted for the examination of the problem was the analysis of the standard material, opinions presented by the subject matter doctrine and judicature. As a result of the use of the above mentioned research methods, it is stated in the work that legal regulations in the field of access to secret information used in Poland are in agreement with the standards of a state of law and, at the same time, enable proper protection of materials which require protection