Public Administration Entities vs. Specific (Untypical) Entities´in Polish Administrative Law System

Abstract

Th e majority of relevant notions and institutions present in Polish administrative law system need to be approached in a new way, for the current approach is to certain extent out-of-date and may raise doubts. Th e same holds for the notion of public administration entity. Such a state of aff airs may be caused by the structural transformations of the state which continually expands the range of tasks to perform. It may also be a result of the formation of new organizational forms. Th e Polish theory lacks an unambiguous defi nition of public administration entity. In the literature on the subject one can fi nd numerous approaches to "public administration entity". According to W. Dawidowicz, public administration entity is an entity formed (created) and equipped by a legislative act with a number of competences for performance of administrative tasks, being at the same time a starting point for the establishment of proper organizational structure necessary to perform those tasks. M. Stahl points out that numerous representatives of the theory 2 consider the state the elementary public adminis-1 Assistant/master of administration, Jan Dlugosz Universty in Czestochowa, Institute of Administration, Poland. 2 T. Rabska, Podstawowe pojęcia organizacji administracji, (w:) System prawa administracyjnego, Abstract: Th e political changes in Poland that took place at the end of the 20th century contributed to the establishment of new organizational forms of public administration entities. Th eir objective was to adapt administration, its operations, and its organizational forms to perform new public tasks in the area of economy. Th e entities operating within those new organizational forms were in confl ict with the traditional notion of public administration entity. Th e main objective of this article is the analysis of legal status of each specifi c entities of public administration and to draw attention to their eclectic legal character.