Efficient and effective public procurement is an integral element of economy and a possibility to reach a broad range of contractors offering high quality products and services. The aim of this article is to discuss selected new legal solutions introduced by new Public Procurement Law, which application may increase the efficiency of public contracts. The article intends to answer the question whether statutory principle of efficiency will enhance the quality of public procurement, making Polish public contract market more competitive. The main research method is a dogmatic-legal method. The analysis conducted in the article indicated that the provisions of Public Procurement Law applicable from 1st January 2021 introduce new legal solutions being an incentive for contractors to participate in public contracts. The consequence of such solutions should be an increase in the number of tenders, giving the ordering parties a bigger chance to obtain maximum efficiency of the implemented contracts and making public procurement market more competitive.
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Sprawne i efektywne zamówienia publiczne są nieodłącznym elementem gospodarki i dają możliwość dotarcia do szerokiego grona wykonawców oferujących produkty i usługi wysokiej jakości, stąd celem artykułu jest omówienie wybranych nowych rozwiązań prawnych wprowadzonych nową ustawą - Prawo zamówień publicznych, których stosowanie może wpłynąć na zwiększenie efektywności zamówień publicznych. Artykuł zmierza do odpowiedzi na pytanie, czy ustawowa zasada efektywności poprawi jakość zamówień publicznych, czyniąc polski rynek zamówień publicznych bardziej konkurencyjnym. Główną metodą badawczą opracowania jest metoda dogmatycznoprawna. Dokonana w artykule analiza pozwala stwierdzić, że przepisy obowiązującej od 01.01.2021 r. ustawy - Prawo zamówień publicznych wprowadzają nowe rozwiązania prawne stanowiące zachętę dla wykonawców do uczestnictwa w zamówieniach publicznych. Konsekwencją tych rozwiązań powinien być wzrost liczby ofert składanych w postępowaniach, co zwiększy szanse zamawiających na uzyskanie maksymalnej efektywności realizowanego zamówienia, czyniąc rynek zamówień publicznych bardziej konkurencyjnym.
In the practice of the Polish local and regional government, participatory budgeting has been used since 2011, and was the first one introduced in Sopot. It is a form of consultation with residents on the allocation of a portion of the budgetary expenses of a unit of the local or regional government, most often a city. This is a special type of procedure in which residents participate in the creation of the budget of a city (municipality), thereby jointly determining the distribution of a certain pool of public funds. In the first years of the application of participatory budgeting in Poland, a very general legal authorization was used to allow consultations with residents. It was only after several years of grassroots use of participatory budgeting that it was regulated in the Polish legal system in the Act of January 11, 2018 amending certain acts. Since then, it has become a mandatory form of public consultation in cities with district rights. The procedure for participatory budgeting in municipalities is generally regulated in Article 5a of the Act on the commune-level local government. The application of participatory budgeting in Poland has resulted in an extensive case law of administrative courts, hence the purpose of this paper is to determine the group of those entitled to participate in public consultations on participatory budgeting in light of the law and the case law of administrative courts. Using the dogmatic-legal method enabled a positive evaluation of the adopted research hypothesis that the provisions of local law that designate the group of entities entitled to participate in participatory budgeting procedure is restrictive compared to the provisions of the applicable statute.
The basic aim of this paper is to evaluate the process of electronisation of the supervision implemented by Regional Chambers of Audit (RIO) over the activity of local government in Poland in the scope of financial matters. The Authors conduct this assessment mainly from the perspective of compliance with the principle of legality determined, among others, in Art. 7 of the Constitution of the Republic of Poland (the Constitution). Due to the fact that this principle is a general basis for the functioning of public authority bodies, it should also be the basic benchmark (condition) of the broadly understood electronisation of the activity of these bodies, not only in the indicated supervisory scope of RIO. It needs to be noted that the process of electronisation of RIO supervision over local government activity has been gradually implemented since 2016, and, importantly, has not been imposed by the legislator, but happened with the consent of the interested parties. Therefore, the Authors have formulated the key research problem, namely: is the electronisation of RIO supervision over financial matters in compliance with the constitutional principle of legality and, in particular, does it implement all statutory features of this supervision? The analysis allowed to answer positively the above question as well as to indicate other positive (non-legal) effects of electronisation. In this paper, non-reactive research methods, i.e. based on the analysis of the content and available source information, are used in the first place, but it also based on the Authors’ empirical knowledge, because they are members of the Committee of the Regional Chamber of Audit in Bialystok and are engaged in the supervisory process over the local government activity.
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