Information obligations of professional local authorities  in the light of the act on access to public information  and protection of business confidentiality

Act of 6 September, 2001 on access to public information guarantee everyone the right to public information, but the right to public information is subject to limitation of the secret of an entrepreneur. The same act on access to public information does not contain the definition of the secret of an entrepreneur. We are forced in this case to apply Article 11.4 of of Act of combating unfair competition. Company confidentiality is understood to include the entrepreneur’s technical, technological organisational or other information having commercial value, which is not disclosed to the public to which the entrepreneur has taken the necessary steps to maintain confidentiality. In this article indicates a problem associated with the provision of public information, because of the secret of an entrepreneur.

Exercising the Right to Petition by Commune Residents Against the Background of Constitutional Regulations

The right to petition regulated in Article 63 of the Constitution is qualified as a political right. It may complement entirely different rights through which citizens may exert influence on public authorities. For this right to be exercised the mode of examining petitions had to me specified. The legislator did so by passing the Petitions Act. In turn, regulations introduced to the Commune Self-Government Act that established a Commission for Complaints, Requests and Petitions were to serve as a measure for residents of basic local government units to exercise this right. This study aims to assess the adopted legal regulations from the point of view of their influence on the efficiency of implementation of the right to petition by members of a commune self-governing community. It will point to organizational and procedural measures which when employed may be a source of real problems.