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The article focuses on lobbying as an instrument of business influence on public administration, and vice versa. The author explores this phenomenon from various perspectives, emphasizing that lobbing is perceived either as the roots of corruption or as an immanent element of democracy. Providing and overview of the directions of lobbying legislation he claims that low effectiveness of the current law in Poland is a good reason for changing lawmakers’ approach to lobbying per se and methods of its control. The article concludes with some recommendations. The author proposes, inter alia, that instead of penalizing only some forms of lobbying, the legislators should ensure full openness and transparency of decision-making processes and become more focused on the real beneficiaries of lobbying: lobbyists’ targets and principals.