On 13th June 2018, the Polish Ministry of Finance published a communiqué in which it outlined a number of tax changes planned for the coming months. The vast majority of these changes are a source of optimism –inter alia, the unification of the VAT rate matrix (the employers’ associations have been asking for such an amendment for a long time – it is necessary to end the absurd multiplication of rates for analogical products), the creation of a new Tax Ordinance Act, or the reduction of the number of reporting and information obligations that entrepreneurs are subject to.

The mandates to negotiate with the Council were undermined for all TRAN reports adopted on 4th June this year by MEPs Wim van de Camp, Merja Kyllönen and Ismail Ertug on the market and social aspects of the Mobility Package – drivers’ working hours, transport posting, and market access.

On 7th June 2018, as part of the EU Sustainable Energy Week, a conference under the title “Shaping an integrated market with hot findings and cool solutions” took place co-organised by the National Fund for Environmental Protection and Water Management and the Union of Entrepreneurs and Employers.

Subject to the of the vote of the Transport Committee (TRAN) were three reports by MEPs Wim Van de Camp, Merja Kyllönen and Ismail Ertug regarding the market and social aspects of the Mobility Package – drivers’ working time, transport posting, and market access.

The world is changing and so are our lifestyles which means that today’s society is exposed to a much greater extent to the so-called diseases of affluence. Their early detection is enabled, among other things, by modern diagnostic imaging. In Poland, there is a sufficient number of diagnostic apparatuses available and the available research indicates that the possibilities of this equipment are much greater than is their actual use.

A written justification of the key and precedent judgment of the Supreme Administrative Court regarding the provisions on 1% of pharmacies in a voivodship has been published. The SAC confirmed that the principle of universal succession apply to licences for running pharmacies, and pharmacy licenses acquired through capital acquisitions by law are transferred to the purchaser. Thus, the Court confirmed the rights of entrepreneurs who in the last dozen or so years had been buying pharmacies, also from the State Treasury.