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Notion of Etrepreneur
Kinds of Entrepreneurs
Registration of Enrepreneurs
Consumers
Representation of Entrepreneurs
Names of Entrepreneurs
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Fundamentals Notions LEGAL SOURCES
Shareholders
AND NOTION
Economic Activity
Legal Sources
Constitution of Poland (art. 20 i 21)
Act of 2 July 2004 on freedom of economic activity, sometimes
called a constitution of economic activity in Poland (art. 2 22)
Notion
Activity having a certain subject
(manufacturing, construction, trading, provision of services
and prospecting, identifying and mining of minerals in deposit,
as well as professional activity)
Profit making activity,
Activity conducted in organised and continuous fashion
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Fundamentals Notions BASIC
Shareholders
PRINCIPLES
Economic Activity
1) Freedom of economic activity
2) Equality of enterpreneurs
Registration
Concessions
Permits, Licenses, Permissions
Formal Regulated Activity
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Notion Types NOTION
Comparison AND FEATURES
Relations
Enterpreneur
natural person, legal person, and deprived of legal personality organisational unit
having legal capacity under provisions of separate Act,
conducting economic activity on its own behalf
LEGAL CAPACITY: natural person, legal person, and deprived
of legal personality organisational unit
CONDUCTING ACTIVITY
manufacturing, construction, trading, provision
HAVING CERTAIN SUBJECT:
of services and prospecting, identifying and mining
of minerals in deposit, as well as professional activity
Kinds of entrepreneurs
Natural persons
Legal persons - organisations given explicitly the legal personality
Legal Quasi Legal persons organisations lacking legal personality
capacity but having legal capacity under provisions of separate acts
Micro - employment less then 10 person, turnover less than 2 mln Euro
Small - accordingly 50 persons, 10 mln Euro
Medium - accordingly 250 persons, 50 mln Euro
Size Others - not meeting the above criteria
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REGISTRATION
Registration of entrepreneurs
Register of Entrepreneurs within National Court Register
kept in information technology system by district courts
Legal persons (registration courts)
store and furnish the data related to orgainsation entered in the Register
Quasi legal Basic rules: oppeness, supposition of the accuracy of the data,
persons presumption of good faith
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Fundamentals Notions
CONSUMERS
Shareholders
AND THEIR PROTECTION
Entrepreneurs vs Consumers
Notion of Consumer
natural person who undertakes legal act with enterpreneur in the purpose
which is not directly connected with his economic or professional activity
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Fundamentals REPRESENTATION
Notions OF ENTREPRENEURSGoverning Bodies
Shareholders
Ways of Representation
Natural persons
Acting on their own or by proxies
Legal persons
Acting through bodies management board
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Fundamentals REPRESENTATION OF ENTREPRENEURSGoverning Bodies
Shareholders
Notions
Basic distinctions
INTERMEDIATION AND REPRESENTATION
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Notion Types REPRESENTATION OF ENTREPRENEURSDifferences
Comparison
Relations
Business name
Notion
name under which an entrepreneur operates protected in a special way
a right to business name has mixed proprietary and personal character
Principles of business name law
Openess, Accuracy, Exclusivity, Unity, Continuity, Untransferability
Protection
Action to cease the activity which threatened the entrepreneur business unless it is not illegal,
Action to remove the effects of the infringement,
Action to make a statement or statements of an appropriate content and in appropriate form,
Action for damages on general rules
Action to hand over the profits gained by the perpetrator
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Fundamentals Notions Shareholders Governing Bodies
End of Presentation
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