Law In Brief: Petty offenses; Consumer credit

There are to be fewer formalities with respect to petty offenses. They have been considerably limited by an amendment to petty offense procedure passed yesterday by the Sejm. From now on police patrolling the streets will have at their disposal strictly delineated guidelines for assigning fines. (Rzeczpospolita, p. C1) ... The 'cooling off period' for consumer credit is to be extended to ten days from the signing of an agreement (at present the limit on withdrawal is three days) - this is one of the principles of a new law on consumer credit which came into force yesterday. (Rzeczpospolita, p. C1) A.C.