Author’s supervision is an institution causing much controversy and many questions as to the manner and extent of supervision of concluding contracts, interpretation of the obligations which are incumbent on the designer and it is justified to make an attempt at its characterization on the basis of current law and issued jurisprudence. Its understanding is all the more difficult because it combines two areas of law — administrative law and civil law. Adesigner conducting author’s supervision is an independent technical function in construction and has in this respect certain rights as well as statutory obligations. Because of this, he/she is subject to both civil liability, which manifests itself in liability for failing to execute or insufficient execution of the author’s supervision agreement, as well as, perhaps more importantly, professional liability in construction, in case of evading conducting the supervision or negligence in performing duties. The very notion of “designer” has its legal implications, which are presented in the article. Therefore, the author’s supervision is avery interesting matter from alegal point of view, whose proper understanding is necessary in order to avoid being exposed to negative consequences that may arise from alack of or improper supervision in the course of investment.
In literature, it is difficult to find a complete analysis of the legal nature of the investor’s supervision. Following the trend of implementation of construction projects in Poland for ever greater complexity and our growing concern for the environment, proper analysis of the investor’s supervision institutions seems to be helpful for the legal establishment and implementation of this supervision. To get analyzed legal institution, should be thoroughly characterize the rights and obligations of the investor’s supervision inspector — an entity exercising supervisory functions implemented during the construction process. Look to be both that which gives him the Act — Construction Law (representing about public character of performed duties), and also due to the contracticity of his supervision concluded between it and an investor of civil contracts, which can be modified to some extent his statutory supervisory functions. Investor’s supervision is an institution that requires legal interpretation, carried out with extreme accuracy, caused the undisputed role that can be attributed to the investor’s supervision inspector, to comply with the regulations and technical knowledge of the process of construction. Only her understanding of guarantees to avoid the negative consequences resulting from misapplication of the law in this regard.
Presented analysis of the proposed changes, contained in the draft, provide an image of the future Polish construction law, which in some parts differs from the current one. In addition to changes in the names of some institutions, special attention should be paid to the reform of the structure of the construction supervision bodies, which seems to have far-reaching effects, particularly those measurable financially. Many of the problems observed today have not yet seen the required solutions, while others have only been solved casually without reaching their essence. Worrying is the conservatism of the Codification Committee in the use of such concepts as public interest, common good, or spatial order and lack of attempts at a redefinition. The project does not seem to correspond to the code requirement of universality, regulating matters that should be included in separate acts, and omittng those worth including in the code. Substantiated is the fear that the proposed provisions of the draft code will in effect lead to a permanent state of helplessness of the bodies which, as yet, have poorly interpreted the new standard. The code may not pass the first trial and may deprive investors of hope for a better quality of Polish construction law. Expected changes may not come, and it will be difficult for a discussion and amendment of the act which has just been discussed and adopted.
The social expectations regarding satisfaction of collective needs, while accounting for individual ones, change, and so do the functions of public administration. Due to the strong connection between public administration tasks and the legal forms of actions used for their implementation, the objective of science of administrative law is to constantly look for new concepts and tools that would enable a proper scientific description and a systematic approach to legal forms of administrative actions. At present, none of the divisions presented in the literature is exhaustive and none can be considered to be offering a full systematization of the legal forms of actions which currently exist in administrative law. One of the most frequently accepted classifications divides the forms of action into imperative and “non-imperative” ones; this classification provides certain antinomy and dśs not conform to the public administration which is legally complex and takes many forms. The existence of imperative administrative actions is unquestionable, but the current doctrinal understanding of “non-imperative” actions needs to be analyzed in more detail. Is the administration really fully imperative or fully “non-imperative”? If we use such an alternative, do we actually deprive ourselves of the possibility of creating a catalogue of legal forms, which reflects the multiformity of contemporary administration, perceives the full spectrum of public administration dominance and diversity of forms, and which assumes a decrease in (or even elimination) of this attribute? Bearing in mind the predilection for the above-mentioned dominance, are we not forced, here and now, to affirm the possibility of full bilateralism in administrative actions?
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