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.

Delayed payments between entrepreneurs are one of the most serious economic problems in Poland. Our country is not the only one suffering from this issue, of course – no member state of the European Union has developed a fully effective solution, and payment blockages constitute a major problem also abroad. Research shows that more than 80% of entrepreneurs have come across delayed payments in Poland. One must bear in mind that the group of entities for which payment blockages are a particularly dangerous phenomenon are entrepreneurs from the SME sector.

Beginning with Council Regulation (EEC) No 1768/92 of June 18th, 1992, followed by Regulation (EC) No 469/2009 of the European Parliament and of the Council of May 6th, 2009, concerning supplementary protection certificates for medicinal products, the EU legislator introduced into the legal order an instrument to extend the protection of medicinal products beyond the duration of basic patent protection.