The article deals with regulations concerning the recruitment procedurę which precedes employment of officers of uniformed services. The legislator did not decide to introduce a uniform model of recruitment procedurę for all uniformed services, which is justified given specific tasks performed by particular services. Regardless of the justified differences between recruitment procedurę concerning various uniformed services, a substantial similarity may be shown, namely that all of them arę associated with the right of access to the public service, laid down in Article 60 of the Polish Con-stitution of 2 April 1997. The rationale for such considerations is justified by the signif-icance of the problem, but also by the fact that regulations governing the recruitment procedurę arę marginalised by law scientists. The purpose of the study is to resolve the doubts concerning the legał naturę of the recruitment procedurę and the activities tak-en in its course as well as to assess the provisions governing the recruitment procedurę in the context of the right of access to the public service and the formal guarantees of that right. As a result of the analysis of the relevant provisions, it has been found that the recruitment procedurę for candidates for uniformed sendces is public administra-tion proceedings. Activities undertaken by the entity conducting a particular procedurę arę "other public administration activities" within the meaning of Article 3(2)(4) of the Act on proceedings in administrative courts of 30 August 2002. The activities of the entity conducting the proceedings, such as exclusion of the candidate to take part in the recruitment process, staying of proceedings against a particular candidate and the finał assessment may therefore be the object of a complaint lodged with the admin-istrative court. Also recognised is the need to introduce legał provisions systematising the issue of notification of recruitment for vacant positions in uniformed services as the basie condition for the implementation of the right of access to the public service.

The article deals with regulations concerning the recruitment procedurę which precedes employment of officers of uniformed services. The legislator did not decide to introduce a uniform model of recruitment procedurę for all uniformed services, which is justified given specific tasks performed by particular services. Regardless of the justified differences between recruitment procedurę concerning various uniformed services, a substantial similarity may be shown, namely that all of them arę associated with the right of access to the public service, laid down in Article 60 of the Polish Con-stitution of 2 April 1997. The rationale for such considerations is justified by the signif-icance of the problem, but also by the fact that regulations governing the recruitment procedurę arę marginalised by law scientists. The purpose of the study is to resolve the doubts concerning the legał naturę of the recruitment procedurę and the activities tak-en in its course as well as to assess the provisions governing the recruitment procedurę in the context of the right of access to the public service and the formal guarantees of that right. As a result of the analysis of the relevant provisions, it has been found that the recruitment procedurę for candidates for uniformed sendces is public administra-tion proceedings. Activities undertaken by the entity conducting a particular procedurę arę "other public administration activities" within the meaning of Article 3(2)(4) of the Act on proceedings in administrative courts of 30 August 2002. The activities of the entity conducting the proceedings, such as exclusion of the candidate to take part in the recruitment process, staying of proceedings against a particular candidate and the finał assessment may therefore be the object of a complaint lodged with the admin-istrative court. Also recognised is the need to introduce legał provisions systematising the issue of notification of recruitment for vacant positions in uniformed services as the basie condition for the implementation of the right of access to the public service.