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The article focuses on the role and importance of self-regulatory bodies of public trust professions, in the light of Article 17 of the Constitution of the Republic of Poland of 2 April 1997, in the context of applications submitted to the Constitutional Tribunal to examine the compliance with the Constitution of the Republic of Poland of the provisions guaranteeing the pluralism of the functioning of these self-regulatory bodies. Based on the analysis of the provisions of the Constitution of the Republic of Poland, the views of the doctrine and the positions expressed in the judgements of the Constitutional Tribunal issued between 1997 and 2015, the authors prove that the initiative to question the existing regulations adopted in relation to the professions of a lawyer, legal adviser, doctor and dentist is intended to serve solely by questioning their independence from the political authorities. At the same time, the authors indicate threats related to questioning the status of other professional self-regulatory bodies, including those of architects and construction engineers.