The new"little Constitution" from 1990 was restored by the civic rights and a parliamentary democracy, before to be replaced on 25th May , 1997 by a new constitution approved by referendum and inspired by the recommendations of the European Union and the best world practices. Great upheavals were accomplished in the code of the trade, facilitating the arrival of foreign investors.

However, the existence of an adequate legal system is not sufficient for effective operation of justice and the respect of the legal provisions. Formed relatively well, the judges still miss normal legal reflexes in market economy. They cannot be based only on jurisprudence incipient to interpret the laws often too vague. And the rules concerning the protection and exercise of the rights of ownership, the company law, the relations between companies and the procedures of bankruptcy are a little adapted or badly applied.

Considerable efforts, sometimes with the assistance of external countries such as France or Belgium, were carried out with an aim of equipping the legal order with adequate data processing and of inserting the Polish legal network into the European legal network. But in practice, the justice remains very slow.

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