The law in Poland is less extensive, but still difficult for companies. Experts are sounding the alarm
In 2025, a total of 12,470 pages of new legal acts of the highest rank were adopted, i.e. acts, regulations and international agreements. This means a decrease of 12%. year to year and at the same time the lowest level since 2006.as highlighted in the report.
This is a clear change after years of legislative “overheating” – for comparison, in the record year 2023, the scale of law production was as much as 64%. higher.
Despite quantitative improvement, the scale of changes remains a big challenge for entrepreneurs.
To stay up to date with new regulations, a company would have to spend on average over an hour a day just reading the new regulations. In practice, however, understanding them requires much more time – often additional hours of analyzing interpretations, case law and changes in existing legal acts.
According to Tomasz Wróblewski, president of the management board of Grant Thornton, quantitative improvement does not go hand in hand with quality:
“The number of pages of new regulations has decreased, but the pace of parliamentary work is still very high, the vacatio legis is sometimes too short, and public consultations are often only of a formal nature” – says.
More regulations that benefit business
However, the report also indicates changes that are favorable to business.
In 2025, as many as 33 out of 49 economic acts passed were favorable to entrepreneurs — this is a significant increase compared to the previous year, when there were only seven such regulations.
This is the result of deregulatory activities that are beginning to be visible in practice, the report emphasizes.
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The system continues to get more complicated
At the same time, the legal system remains very complex, as the report points out.
For every repealed regulation, there were as many as 25 new or amended regulations in 2025 that required companies to adapt.
This shows that despite the limitation of the “production of law”, its real complexity continues to grow.
Law in Poland. Problems with transparency
The report also draws attention to the imperfections of the legislative process.
Although the number of bills being processed, the so-called “parliamentary bypass” (i.e. through parliamentary channels without consultations) dropped to 14%, the consultations themselves are often insufficient:
- for 29 percent no consultations were recorded on the projects,
- in 46 percent cases, the government did not respond to the submitted comments.
Vacatio legis is still too short
Another problem is the time to implement the new regulations.
The average vacatio legis for economic laws increased only slightly – from 37 to 38 days. This is still far from the standard of “half a year for business” recommended by experts.
Moreover, more than half of the new regulations enter into force almost immediately – this applies to 58%. laws and 52%, regulations.
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Quality of law – the key to economic development
As Kami Wyszkowski, executive director of United Nations GCNP, emphasizes, the quality of law is crucial for economic development and the implementation of UN goals.
“Stable and predictable regulations are the foundation for policies related to, among others, climate transformation and economic growth” – says.
Krzysztof Kwiatkowski, Senator of the Republic of Poland, Chairman of the Senate Legislative Committee, in turn, emphasizes that although there is a visible improvement compared to previous years, the system still requires further changes, especially in terms of stability and predictability of the law.
