Prawo do schronienia : reakcja ustawodawcy na masową migrację spowodowaną rosyjską agresją na Ukrainę : raport krajowy – Polska

Współautorstwo: Mężykowska, Aleksandra; Młynarska-Sobaczewska, Anna

Warszawa : Instytut Nauk Prawnych PAN, 2025

Seria: Raporty INP PAN

ISBN 9788368199147

47 stron. Bibliografia - s. 43-47.

Raport został przygotowany w ramach projektu Shelter law-making. Legal response to massive migration caused by Russian aggression against Ukraine (Grant Wyszehradzki nr 22320067), współfinansowanego przez rządy Czech, Węgier, Polski i Słowacji w ramach Grantów Wyszehradzkich Międzynarodowego Funduszu Wyszehradzkiego. Misją funduszu jest promowanie idei zrównoważonej współpracy regionalnej w Europie Środkowej.

Shelter law-making : Legal response to the massive migration caused by Russian aggression against Ukraine : National report – Poland

Współautorstwo: Mężykowska, Aleksandra; Młynarska-Sobaczewska, Anna

Warsaw : Publishing House of ILS PAS, 2025

Seria: ILS PAS Reports

ISBN 9788368199055

47 stron. Bibliografia - s. 42-47.

The report is a part of the project Shelter law-making: Legal response to massive migration caused by Russian aggression against Ukraine (Visegrad Grant No. 22320067), co-financed by the governments of Czechia, Hungary, Poland and Slovakia through Visegrad Grants from the International Visegrad Fund. The mission of the fund is to advance ideas for sustainable regional cooperation in Central Europe.

Shelter law-making : Legal response to the massive migration caused by Russian aggression against Ukraine : General report on Visegrad countries: Czech Republic, Hungary, Republic of Poland, Slovak Republic

Współautorstwo: Friedery, Réka; Honusková, Věra; Mężykowska, Aleksandra; Mittelmannová, Miroslava; Młynarska-Sobaczewska, Anna; Novák, Lukáš

Warsaw : Publishing House of ILS PAS, 2025

Seria: ILS PAS Reports

ISBN 9788368199130; 9788368199062

51 stron.

The General Report presented below constitutes a summary of information and conclusions contained in the national reports on Czechia, Hungary, Poland and Slovakia, and is the final output of Grant no. 22320067, entitled Shelter law-making. Legal response to massive migration caused by Russian aggression against Ukraine, co-financed by the Visegrad Fund. The national reports constitute the basis for the General Report; therefore, references to all sources and data are to be found there.  The main goal of the project was to analyse the legal actions taken and instruments created by the four Visegrad countries (V4) in response to the large-scale and unprecedented influx of people after 24 February 2022, the outbreak of the full-scale invasion of the Russian Federation against Ukraine. Above all, we identified the need to compare the actions taken in individual countries in order to distinguish the recurring solutions, identify those that have failed and select those that proved to be the most effective (good practices). In our opinion, the findings of the project will provide a solid basis for more effective legal actions related to the current migration crisis and possible crises in future. The conclusions and recommendations are in the final parts (VI and VII) of the General Report.

The report is a part of the project Shelter law-making: Legal response to massive migration caused by Russian aggression against Ukraine (Visegrad Grant No. 22320067), co-financed by the governments of Czechia, Hungary, Poland and Slovakia through Visegrad Grants from the International Visegrad Fund. The mission of the fund is to advance ideas for sustainable regional cooperation in Central Europe.

Sheltering the homeless : Legal solutions to provide accommodation for refugees from Ukraine in Poland

Refugees, Resources, Security, and Beyond : Legal and Broader Impacts of the War in Ukraine on Hungary and Poland / editors Réka Friedery, Csaba Weiner and Boldizsár Szentgáli-Tóth. Budapest : Akadémiai Kiadó, 2025, s. 36-45.

The direct result of full-scale Russian aggression against Ukraine in 2022 was a massive influx of Ukrainian people into European Union countries. In Poland—a country bordering Ukraine — a year after the attack, almost 1 million Ukrainian citizens enjoyed temporary protection, of whom about 87% were women and children. In the early days of the conflict, the Ukrainian–Polish border was crossed by up to 95,000 people a day, and from February 24, 2022 to March 3, 2022, Border Guard officers allowed 575,100 people fleeing the war to enter Poland. In the capital city of Warsaw alone, up to 40,000 people a day applied for help. The refugees required immediate assistance in almost every aspect of life (including food, legalization of their stay, transportation). The sheer number of arrivals, the need for immediate action, the inability to prepare in advance (including a regulatory deficit), as well as unfavorable winter conditions, generated problems that required quick and adequate solutions. The legislator’s response to these challenges was the enactment of the Act of March 12, 2022 on assistance to Ukrainian citizens in connection with the armed conflict on the territory of that country (hereinafter: “Special Act”), which sets out assistance to Ukrainian citizens “seeking shelter”2 on the territory of the Republic of Poland. One of the areas regulated in the Special Act was the issue of accommodation assistance. Indeed, the urgent need was to provide each person with a place to stay, with adequate sanitary facilities, protection from the weather, and a sense of security. For some people, it was sufficient to arrange temporary shelter for a few days. However, a large group, especially children, women, the elderly and the sick, required long-term assistance. At the same time, it should be borne in mind that in the two years since the outbreak of the war, the circumstances and needs of the refugees changed, resulting in changes in the Special Act. This chapter focuses on the legal solutions for providing accommodation for refugees. To this end, the following sections of the paper outline preparations for the reception of refugees, state-organized assistance, state support for those providing accommodation for refugees and other forms of assistance.

The research was co-funded by the governments of the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, and Slovakia through the International Visegrad Fund under the Visegrad project 22320067. The Fund’s mission is to promote sustainable regional cooperation in Central Europe.

Prawo dostępu do informacji publicznej we własnej sprawie

Przegląd Prawa Konstytucyjnego 2025, nr 3 (85), s. 75-87.

The right of access to public information is one of the key political rights. According to Art. 61 (1) of the Constitution, it is granted to citizens, while at the statutory level it has been extended to “everyone”. Despite the clear definition of the group of beneficiaries of this right, some adjudicating panels consider that the right of access to public information is not in the applicant’s “own case”/“own affairs”. In other words, itis possible to request to receive information on public matters, but not on such matters that, although public, are related to one’s own interest. However, this standpoint is not uniformly accepted. Three lines of jurisprudence have emerged in this regard. The article presents them and focuses on the normative meaning of “own cases” and the scope of the right to public information. The thesis of the paper is that the use of the criterion of “own cases” as an extra-normative construction is inadmissible, and the right to public information has a universal character, independent of the relationship of the applicant to the requested information.

Prawo dostępu do informacji publicznej jest jednym z kluczowych praw politycznych. Zgodnie z art. 61 ust. 1 Konstytucji RP przysługuje ono obywatelom, natomiast na poziomie ustawowym zostało rozszerzone na „każdego”. Mimo klarownego określenia kręgu beneficjentów tego prawa, część składów orzekających uznaje, że prawo dostępu do informacji publicznej nie przysługuje „w sprawie własnej” wnioskodawcy. Innymi słowy, można wnosić o otrzymanie informacji w sprawach publicznych, lecz nie w takich sprawach, które choćby publiczne, to związane są z własnym interesem. Stanowisko to nie jest jednak jednolicie przyjmowane. Wyodrębniły się w tym zakresie trzy linie orzecznicze. W artykule dokonano ich prezentacji, a także skupiono się na normatywnym znaczeniu tzw. „własnych spraw” oraz zakresie prawa do informacji publicznej. W pracy postawiono tezę, że stosowanie kryterium „własnych spraw” jako konstrukcji pozanormatywnej jest niedopuszczalne, a prawo do informacji publicznej ma charakter powszechny, niezależny od relacji wnioskodawcy do żądanej informacji.