Europeanization of the Polish Law: Consideration Associated with the Adoption of the Directive on ADR in Consumer Disputes

The adapted aim of this study is general characteristics and formal possibilities of the impact of the European Union law on the Polish law, which can be defined by way of great simplification as Europeanization of the latter. This, among its many dimensions (Europeanization of: administration, research, education, politics, language), also has a legal dimension, particularly interesting to us. This paper will therefore focus only on the EU law and its impact on the Polish law, as well as on the legal basis for the implementation of EU legislation onto the ground of the domestic legal order. To illustrate the Europeanization processes running in this way we shall use the description of the status of a consumer and legal solutions aimed at strengthening his position in relation to entrepreneurs. Justification for so defined choice is twofold. Firstly, it is a representative example (in terms of adaptation of national legal systems to the standards of the European Union), and secondly, one relating to issues of particularly major importance for the functioning of the single European market. Said assumptions correspond to Directive 2013/11/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council of 21 May 2013 on Alternative Dispute Resolution for Consumer Disputes and Amending Regulation (EC) No 2006/2004 and Directive 2009/22/EC (Directive on Consumer ADR). Its analysis will form an essential objective of considerations for which analyses outlined earlier are of introductory and subsidiary importance