Bureaucracy level hits record high

As many as 25,634 pages of new acts, regulations and other documents that create or modify the existing law came into force in 2014, according to Grant Thornton, an international consulting firm.

Last year's result is 11 percent higher than in 2013, 22 percent higher than a decade ago and 745 percent higher than 20 years ago. If an entrepreneur tried to read it, he would have to spend 206 minutes a day.

"Recently, some 20,000 pages of legislative acts a year come into force. This is even more than in the 1990s, when we were changing the whole system. While large corporations can afford to keep track of the changes, SMEs are not able to navigate through the legislative thicket," Tomasz Wróblewski from Grant Thornton was quoted as saying by Polish daily Puls Biznesu.