The boundaries of regulative autonomy in the standing orders of Polish parliament

The main purpose of this article is an attempt to delineate boundaries, within which the lawmaker has got discretionary power to establish rules of the standing orders of the Sejm, the Senat and the National Assembly. As making reference point to the content of art. art. 61 ust. 4, art. 112, art. 114 ust. 2 i art. 123 ust. 2 of the constitution, the author demonstrates what is the impact of the surrounding legal environment on establishing that rules. Consequently, the following parts of this article present the interference of different normative acts into internal parliamentary affairs, i.e. the constitution, bills, UE law acts, the European Convention on Human Rights and the standing orders of parliament. The key thesis of the article is based on convenience that the scope of regulative autonomy, laid down by the constitution, is the subject of further limitations and that the decisions of parliament in this area have to meet some external (imposed „from outside”) conditions.