Application of Article 316 of the Polish Code of Civil Procedurę in the appeals against decisions of the President of the Office of Electronic Communications

Abstract

In cases specified in Article 206 par. 2 of the Act on the Telecommunications Law, telecom- munications entrepreneurs have the right to appeal to the Court of Competition and Con- sumer Protection in Warszawa. All provisions of the Code of Civil Procedure, including Ar¬ticle 316 of the CCP, apply to the CCCP procedure. Article 316 of the CCP concerns one of the basic issues of civil procedure, i.e. basis for judgement. However, the application thereof in telecommunications cases provokes certain reflections which lead to the conclusion in compliance with which Article 316 of the CCP is applicable in telecommunications cases when the specificity of these cases is taken into account, especially the fact that the CCCP procedure is supervisory in nature and checks the regulatory activities of the President of the Office of Electronic Communications. The paper analyses judicial decisions of ordinary courts and the Supreme Court in telecommunications cases, as well as social security and energy regulation cases, which due to the major similarities of appeals against decisions is- sued by ZUS and the President of ERO, and appeals against decisions issued by the President of the OEC, may be per analogiam applied to telecommunication cases.

Keywords

• Office of Electronic Communications
• civil procedure
• Telecommunications Law
• court’s cognition