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Electronisation of the Supervision Over Local Government Activity Regarding Financial Matters in Poland and the Constitutional Principle of Legality

Publication date: 20.12.2024

Financial Law Review, 2024, Issue 35 (3)/2024, pp. 97 - 115

https://doi.org/10.4467/22996834FLR.24.016.20925

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Ewa Lotko
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Marcin Tyniewicki
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Electronisation of the Supervision Over Local Government Activity Regarding Financial Matters in Poland and the Constitutional Principle of Legality

Abstract

The basic aim of this paper is to evaluate the process of electronisation of the supervision implemented by Regional Chambers of Audit (RIO) over the activity of local government in Poland in the scope of financial matters. The Authors conduct this assessment mainly from the perspective of compliance with the principle of legality determined, among others, in Art. 7 of the Constitution of the Republic of Poland (the Constitution). Due to the fact that this principle is a general basis for the functioning of public authority bodies, it should also be the basic benchmark (condition) of the broadly understood electronisation of the activity of these bodies, not only in the indicated supervisory scope of RIO.

It needs to be noted that the process of electronisation of RIO supervision over local government activity has been gradually implemented since 2016, and, importantly, has not been imposed by the legislator, but happened with the consent of the interested parties. 

Therefore, the Authors have formulated the key research problem, namely: is the electronisation of RIO supervision over financial matters in compliance with the constitutional principle of legality and, in particular, does it implement all statutory features of this supervision?

The analysis allowed to answer positively the above question as well as to indicate other positive (non-legal) effects of electronisation.

In this paper, non-reactive research methods, i.e. based on the analysis of the content and available source information, are used in the first place, but it also based on the Authors’ empirical knowledge, because they are members of the Committee of the Regional Chamber of Audit in Bialystok and are engaged in the supervisory process over the local government activity.

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Information: Financial Law Review, 2024, Issue 35 (3)/2024, pp. 97 - 115

Article type: Original article

Authors

https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6847-8308

Ewa Lotko
Faculty of Law of the University of Bialystok
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6847-8308 Orcid
All publications →

Faculty of Law of the University of Bialystok

https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2993-3982

Marcin Tyniewicki
Faculty of Law of the University of Bialystok
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2993-3982 Orcid
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Faculty of Law of the University of Bialystok

Published at: 20.12.2024

Received at: 30.09.2024

Accepted at: 18.11.2024

Article status: Open

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Ewa Lotko (Author) - 50%
Marcin Tyniewicki (Author) - 50%

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Ewa Lotko, doctor of Financial Law, Department of Public Finance and Financial Law, Faculty of Law, University of Bialystok, Poland. The author specializes in local government finance, including instruments for reducing public debt, participatory budgeting, and tax incentives. The author is the member of the regional committee adjudicating on violation of public finance discipline, the Regional Chamber of Audit in Białystok and the Board of the International Center of Public Finance and Tax Law Research.

Contact email: e.lotko@uwb.edu.pl

Marcin Tyniewicki, doctor of Financial Law, Department of Public Finance and Financial Law, Faculty of Law, University of Bialystok, Poland. The author specializes in local government finance, EU public finance and public debt management. The author is the member of the Regional Chamber of Audit in Bialystok and the Board of the International Center of Public Finance and Tax Law Research.

Contact email: tyniewicki@uwb.edu.pl

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