Tort and Regulatory Law in Poland

Abstract

In Poland, with regard to civil law relationships, the spheres in which civil law (as the part of private law) and administrative law (as the part of public law) provisions are applied traditionally interweave.1 In the legal doctrine, the border between one law and the other is delineated with the applied method of regulation used as a criterion. Typical for the civil (private) law method (as opposed to the administrative (public) one) is the equality of the parties of the civil law relationship. However, the concept of regulatory law is not known in Polish law. For the purposes of this work, regulatory law can be understood as the law setting some standards of conduct in typical social situations connected with the production of goods, industrial actions, performance of services or other environmental influence. Such concept of regulatory law is rather part of the domain of administrative (public law) than of civil law.2