Forms of the Government Administration’s Impact on the Activities of Local Governments During the COVID-19 Pandemic

• Authors: Piotr Rączka , Maciej Serowaniec

Abstracts

EN

The primary burden of tackling the pandemic COVID-19 lies with the state as the entity responsible for protecting the health and life of its citizens. Hence, it can be argued that the focus of the pandemic-induced changes to the Polish legal order was on administrative law, which not only sets out the principles of the functioning of the State as the executive power but also governs the relations between the government, local government and citizens, which had to be significantly modified during the pandemic. It would be impossible to analyse and discuss all the emergency measures that appeared in Poland’s administrative law due to the threats posed by the pandemic. The subject matter of the present study is the analysis of the legal solutions adopted in the Republic of Poland in the sphere of public law in connection with the spread of the virus and particular provisions shaping relationships between the two basic structural branches of Polish public administration, viz. the government administration and the local-government administration. The following part of this study will accordingly be devoted to the analysis of the legislative solution contained in Article 11h of the COVID-19 Act, establishing a legal framework for issuing binding instructions to, among others, the various bodies of local governments, local-government legal persons and local-government organisational entities without legal personality.

Keywords

EN

COVID-19; local government; government administration; administrative; law; decentralised administration system

• Publisher: Wydawnictwo Adam Marszałek
• Journal: Polish Political Science Yearbook
• Year: 2022
• Issue: 1(51)
• Pages: 153-162

Dates

published

2022

Contributors

author

Piotr Rączka

• Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń (Poland)

• https://orcid.org/0000000210975712

author

Maciej Serowaniec

• Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń (Poland)

• https://orcid.org/0000000346937977

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Identifiers

DOI

10.15804/ppsy202214

Biblioteka Nauki

2056771