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On January 11, 2009 Regulation No. 864/2007 of the European Parliament and the EU Council entered into force.
On January 8, 2009, new provisions of the Code of Commercial Companies came into force among, which included (among other things) a decrease in the initial capital require for a limited liability company from 50,000 PLN to 5,000 PLN and for a joint-stock company from 500,000 PLN to 100,000 PLN.
Pursuant to the amendment to provisions of March 4, 1994 on the company’s social benefit fund (Journal of Laws of 1996, N. 70, item 335) the legislator allowed among other things, for nurseries, kindergartens and other forms of preschool education institutions to be created on the employer’s premises from the resources of the social fund.
Subject to obligations resulting from EU directives and from the Accession Treaty, fifteen percent of energy in Poland will have to originate from renewable sources by 2020.