Prawne determinanty funkcjonowania lokalnych grup działania w Polsce

The paper on “Legal determinants of Local Action Groups activity in Poland” includes analysis of key terms associated with this form of partnership and review of legal regulations in force, which enable all potential limitations in respect to Local Action Groups activity to be specified. Up until 2007, Local Action Groups in Poland could adopt legal forms of foundations, associations or unions of associations. The Law of 7th March 2007 on support for rural development through co-financing by the European Agricultural Fund for Rural Development, currently in force, provides only one obligatory legal form, i.e. association, though it is a “special” association. The aforementioned law determines the legal form applicable to all newly established Local Action Groups but it does not exclude that other Local Action Groups, irrespectively of the adopted legal form, may seek funds. Local Action Groups activity in Poland encounters numerous limitations, and only part of them follows from specifity of legal regulations governing the discussed matter. What seems to be a key problem is incomprehension of the term a “partnership”, which means equality of parties, three sectors to be exact. One should also notice incomplete usefulness of institutions transferred on a new, unfamiliar ground. They operate only if similar conditions, in respect to social structure, system of values, legal regulations, legal awareness, occur.