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The purpose of the article is to provide initial identifi cation of the problems which arise most often in the practice of formulating statutory authorisation to issue a regulation, in relation to guidelines concerning its content (Article 92 (1) in fi ne of the Constitution). In the author’s view, the main weaknesses of guidelines contained in a statutory authorisation include, inter alia: 1) putting an emphasis on the praxiological values that should be a natural component of any proposed mechanism, such as reliability, effi ciency, effectiveness, effi cacy and regularity; 2) ordering the author of a resolution to allow for the value, implementing of which is an obvious consequence of taking the action specifi ed by the authorisation; 3) indicating the necessity of inclusion of actions which are objectively inseparable from the required action; 4) formulating therein a demand that the authority issuing a regulation be driven by the indicated constitutional values, thus repeating the normative content of the Constitution. An analysis of the practice leads the author to the refl ection of whether