Today in our "Lawyer on the Farm" series, we'll begin discussing a topic that has been controversial for years. Over the coming weeks, we'll analyze the issue of expropriation and attempt to present the most important issues you've asked about during our consultations. Expropriation is a situation in which a public authority (in practice, an administrative body) can deprive an owner of their rights to real estate or limit them, but […]

Today in our series, "Lawyer on the Farm," we continue the topic of funding for high-efficiency cogeneration projects based on renewable energy sources—specifically biomass (excluding forest biomass), biogas, and biomethane. We'll discuss the practical aspects of obtaining funding and the most common problems farmers face. How does this impact the real-life investor? […]

The National Fund for Environmental Protection and Water Management has just opened the call for applications for the "European Funds for Infrastructure, Climate, Environment 2021–2027 (FEnIKS) Program, Part 5) High-Efficiency Cogeneration Sources." PLN 627 million is available for high-efficiency cogeneration projects based on renewable energy sources – in particular biomass (excluding forest biomass), biogas, and biomethane. Applications can be submitted from […]

In today's article from the "Lawyer on the Farm" series, we remind you of a crucial tax obligation that affects a very large group of people. The agricultural tax payment deadline is just a few days away. The payment is for the fourth installment of the tax. As we wrote at the beginning of the year, agricultural tax installments are payable on four dates: by the 15th of March, May, and September […]

In the first October article in the "Lawyer on the Farm" series, we would like to present the parliamentary draft bill on the Agricultural Ombudsman (the "Draft Bill"). Due to the extensive nature of the bill and its undoubtedly significant impact on Polish agricultural law, the information about the Draft Bill has been divided into two parts. First, we will focus on the general role of the Agricultural Ombudsman […]

Today's article in the "Lawyer on the Farm" series will be devoted to a proposed statutory regulation of agricultural land leases, the guidelines for which have been presented by the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development ("Ministry"). The draft legislation is scheduled for adoption in the fourth quarter of this year. The guidelines emphasize that agricultural land leases are, in principle, a positive phenomenon – […]