Companies filing an application for entry in the Register of Entrepreneurs of the National Court Register ("KRS") as of October 1, 2024 are required to indicate in the application the data necessary to create an electronic delivery address. It will be created automatically, after the data indicated in the application for entry is submitted to the Minister of Digitisation. For companies entered in the KRS before October 1, 2024, the deadline for creating an electronic delivery address has been postponed until January 1, 2025.

Nearly ten years after the presentation of the draft by the European Commission, on November 23, 2022, the European Parliament ratified Directive 2022/2381 of the European Parliament and of the Council, focusing on enhancing the gender balance within the leadership of publicly listed companies and associated measures.

On 16 August 2008, the Polish Parliament adopted an Act amending the Commercial Companies Code. The amendment provides, inter alia, for the introduction into Polish law of provisions on cross-border transformations and cross-border divisions of companies within the Member States of the European Union.

Legislators in Ukraine are continuing to work on improving legislation. With a specific focus on urban planning with the understanding of the need to rebuild Ukraine in future.

On 29 March 2023, The European Commission adopted a draft Directive on further expanding and upgrading the use of digital tools and processes in company law (the "Directive"). The Directive aims to facilitate cross-border activities of companies by: educing bureaucracy and administrative burdens, in particular when setting up subsidiaries or branches in other Member States of the European Union; and increasing transparency and therefore increasing confidence in cross-border entrepreneurs.

On 1 July 2023, the government declared that the state of pandemic is to end in the territory of Poland for the first time since 2020. This will result in the expiration of certain regulations which were introduced to protect businesses against the consequences of disruption to economic life triggered by the COVID pandemic.

The latest newsletter presents the most critical changes in the labor law that came into force on 1 January 2023. We also remind you of the annual obligations of the employer and indicate what aspects the PIP will pay attention to during the inspections scheduled for 2023.