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The provisions of the Act, which are the subject of questions presented in the order to prepare the expert opinion, ceased to be in force on the 17th July 2018. A fundamental legal effect of the of the legislator’s decision to repeal them is decriminalization of behaviors covered by the statutory description of the type of prohibited act. The most important conclusion of the expert opinion is even in the period of time the provisions of article 55a paragraphs 1–2 were in force representatives of German minority in Poland had the possibility of conducting activities in favor of “discovering, elaborating and commemorating the tragic fate of the German civilian population, embedded in the system of post-war labor camps” under condition they did not contradict the facts.