New civil code amendments to make granting import quotas more transparent

A new, more liberal and transparent system of granting duty-free import quotas has been added to the new draft amendment of the civil code. Under the draft law, the decision on the amount of duty-free quotas would be made based on the imports and exports during the previous 12 months of the issue date of the license. The quotas would be shared proportionally by the number of entities interested in obtaining them or based on the applicants foreign trade turnover. If a company has not imported anything in that period, it will be able to share 15% of the whole duty-free quota defined by the state. Also the application date for submissions has been extended to 21 days after the new law takes effect. Currently the term is limited to the day the law is officially published. Together with the amendments in the code the number of items imported duty-free will also be reduced. (Rzeczpospolita, page B2)