Time limits for settling of administravite cases according to the Polish Code of Administrative Procedure - in the doctrine and in judicial decisions

The efficiency of public administration organs is of essential importance not only for the citizens but also for realization of State purposes in different spheres. Therefore the legislator looks for some effective methods of getting the administration more disciplined. The solutions are the following, first of all: devolution of competences, notifying about defects in the conduct of administrative officials and recognition of the fact that silence of an organ gives its consent. The author discusses precedent, present and projected legal regulations on the time limits for settling of administrative cases. When analysing respective dispositions of the Code of Administrative Procedure he cites also corresponding judicial decisions of the Principal Administrative Court. The following aspects are mentioned, among others: judicial time limits, appealing to higher instances, complaint regarding the inactivity of an administrative office, responsibility of the administration employees. The author considers that the regulations in force do sufficiently assure to the parties to a case the possibility of claiming to settle their demands within due time limits. Only in a few cases a complaint regarding the inactivity of administrative organs is lodged in the Principal Administrative Court. However it is possible that such a restreint number of complaints results from too little conscience of the citizens of a possibility itself of such a procedural facility being awailable.Digitalizacja i deponowanie archiwalnych zeszytów RPEiS sfinansowane przez MNiSW w ramach realizacji umowy nr 541/P-DUN/201