Business climate in Poland is friendly, the country is open to people and enterprises from other countries who are willing to conduct economic activity in Poland.
On entering the EU, Poland has introduced the EU legislature. Therefore, the general rules of doing business are not much different from the ones in force in other EU countries, and lack of trade barrier within the EU allows companies located in Poland to move freely around the whole vast European market.
The most important document, guaranteeing equal and transparent conditions to entrepreneurs willing to conduct business activities in Poland, is the Act on Freedom of Economic Activity, of 2nd July 2004. The text is available at: http://paiz.gov.pl/index/
?id=fe9fc289c3ff0af142b6d3bead98a923
The law defines legal forms of business activity (more information in Legal forms of enterprise organization), sets out procedures of company registration and lists areas of activity requiring official licence or permission.
The following 6 fields of activity require official license:
- prospecting for or exploration of mineral deposits, extracting minerals from deposits,
- bulk storage of substances, and storing waste in rock mass, including in underground
- mine workings;
- manufacture of and trading in explosives, arms and ammunition, and products and
- technology for military or police purposes;
- manufacture, processing, storing, transmission, distribution and trading in fuel and
- energy;
- protection of persons and property;
- broadcast of radio and television programmes;
- air carriage
In many other fields of business activity, the licence system has been abolished, introducing instead a simple procedure of registration. Additionally, the Act has introduced a number of solutions facilitating business activities, or brings down barriers previously identified by the entrepreneurs as bothersome (for example, limitation of state controls in a company to one at a time, as well as setting out a maximum time of individual types of controls per annum).
*Listed in the Paragraph 46 item 1 of the Act on Freedom of Economic Activity.
