Poland with record number of new laws in 2016 – Grant Thornton

The combined number of pages of all acts of law implemented in Poland last year amounted to 31,906, which is a 7.5 percent growth compared to the record-breaking 2015, a report compiled by consultancy Grant Thornton showed. This is also the highest number since Poland regained independence in 1918. “In 2016, some 2,306 acts of law were introduced with nearly 32,000 pages combined. Taking into the account that a person needs 2 minutes to read one page of a legal document, average Pole would have to spend over 4 hours daily to read all of it,” the report said. “This is a systematic problem in Poland. No matter which political party was in charge, since 1989, the number of produced law has been increasing continuously. Such huge volume of legal documents, often written and approved in haste, has negative consequences to its quality and makes implementing them difficult for citizens and companies,” said Tomasz Wróblewski, partner at Grant Thornton. The report shows, that not only the number of pages has increased, but also the speed in which they’re being implemented. Last year, the average span between introducing the bill in the parliament and signing it by the president was 77 days.