Constitution

Texts

Constitution 1918

Constitution 1921

Constitution 1935

Constitution 1952 abstract

Constitution 1952

Constitution 1997 

Religious Communities

National and International Agreements

Agreement between the Holy See and the Republic of Poland

On the Relations between State and the Karaim religious Association 1936

Joint Government and Episcopate Commission 1956

Agreement between State and Polish Episcopate in 1950

Agreement in 1993

Relations between State and Jewish Religious communities 1997

Regulation on the register of churches and other religious associations1999

Law on the Relations between State and the Christian Baptist Church 2007

Law on the Relations between State and the Seventh-day Adventist 2014

Protocol of cooperation between the Government and the Polish bishops’ conference 2013

Protocol of cooperation between the Government and the Polish bishops’ conference 2016

Protocol of cooperation between the Government and the Polish bishops’ conference 2017

Protocol of cooperation between the Government and the Polish bishops’ conference 2018

On the Relations between State and the Karaim religious Association 1936

On the legal status of the Polish Orthodox Autocephalous Church 1991

Law on relations with the Reformed Evangelical Church, 1994

Law on relations with the Lutheran Church, 1994

Law on relations with the Methodist Church, enacted on June the 30th 1995

Law on relations with the Church of the Mariaviti, enacted on February the 20th 1997

Law on the Legal Status of the Pentecostal Church 1997

Relations between State and Jewish Religious communities 1997

Law on the Relations between State and the Christian Baptist Church 2007

Law on the Relations between State and the Christian Baptist Church 2015

Law on the Relations between State and the Seventh-day Adventist 2014  

Laws and decrees

Failure to recognize ecclesiastical appointments in 1945

Religious associations in 1949

Religious associations modifications 1949

Law on Religious Associations 1932

Modifications on the law on religious associations 1950

Organization of the state and relations with the cults 1950

Transitory Statute for the office of worships 1950

Appointment to ecclesiastical offices 1957

Freedom of conscience and religion 1989

Report of the State with the Catholic Church 1989

On the legal status of the Polish Orthodox Autocephalous Church 1991

Law on the Legal Status of the Pentecostal Church 1997

On the register of Churches and other associations 1999

On the remuneration of members and auxiliary staff of regulatory committees operating according to the laws on relations between the State, churches and religious associations through February the 1st 2008 until December the 31st 2008

Law amending the legislation on the financing of the Pontifical Academy of Theology in Krakow on the state budget and on the relations between the State and the Catholic Church 2009

Law on the regulation of the legal status of certain properties under the control of the Polish autocephalous Orthodox Church 2009

On the publication of a uniform text of the law on the relationship between the State and the evangelical church of the Augsburg Confession 2014

Law on the Relations between State and the Christian Baptist Church 2015

Application of art. 4 on the proceedings for the acquisition of legal personality of ecclesiastical institutions

Commission of joint representatives from the Government and the Polish ecumenical Council 2013

Commission of joint representatives from the Government and the Polish ecumenical Council 2017

Digital register of Churches and other Religious Associations and their functions, 2018

Register of Churches and other Religious Associations, 2019 

Regulations, Decisions, Provisions, Ordinances, Circulars

Structure ecclesiastical affairs office 1950

Regulation of the Ministry of the Interior concerning the Regulatory Commission for the Polish autocephalous Orthodox Church 1999

Regulation on the juridical personality of the Diaconia of the Evangelical Reformed Church 2003

Resolution of the Supreme Court on the alienation of immovable property by a body of the Catholic Church without authorization of the ecclesiastical authority 2008

Order of the President of the Republic of 28 February 2011

Notice of the Marshal of the Parliament on the publication of a uniform text of the law on the relationship of the State with the old Catholic Mariavita church 2014

Notice of the Marshal of the Parliament dealing with the publication of a uniform text of law on the relationship of the State with the Baptist Church 2015

Notice of the Marshal of the Parliament of the Republic of Poland on the publication of a uniform text of law on relations between the State and the Evangelical Reformed Church 2015

Opinion on the draft law of the Republic of Armenia amending the law “on freedom of conscience and religious organizations” 2017

Ordinance of the President of the Republic concerning the recognition of the Wiślica – the collegial complex dedicated to the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary and the relics of the church dedicated to Saint Nicholas and the fortress as a historical monument 2018

Regulation of the President of the Republic concerning the recognition of the Białystok – zespół kościoła pod wezwaniem Chrystusa Króla i św. Rocha as a historical monument 2018

Notice of the Marshal of the Parliament of the Republic related to the publication of a uniform text of law on the relations of the State with the Catholic Church 2019 

Statutes and Internal Rules

Statute of the Autocephalous Orthodox Church of Poland 1995

Statute of the polish bishops’ conference 2009

Statute of the Baptist Church in Poland -KChB 2005

Bodies And Church Properties

Confiscation, Restitution and Compensation of Properties of Religious Communities

Return church property to the religious confessions 1971

On the management of territorial resources and expropriation of real estate1985

Construction of Worship And Urban Planning

Regulations, Decisions, Provisions, Ordinances, Circulars

Places of worship 1957 

Sustenance of the Clergy and Financing of Religious Communities

Laws and decrees

Ecclesiastical law on the establishment of the fund in 1950

Social insurance of the clergy 1957

Remuneration of the clergy in 1959

Taxation of the clergy 1959

Taxation of the clergy 1960 

Regulations, Decisions, Provisions, Ordinances, Circulars

Circular of the Minister of Finance on the interpretation of certain requirements relating to the turnover tax in 1959

Ordinance on Accounting of religious denominations in 1959

Ordinance on the adaptation of the prescription of the law on associations 1950

Individual and Collective Religious Freedom and Minorities

Religious Assistance

Ordinance of the Minister of Justice on the fulfillment of religious services in homes worth in 1956

Istruzione del ministro della sanità sull’assistenza religiosa ai malati ricoverati negli ospedali e nei sanatori 1956

Ordinance of the Ministry of Health on the remuneration of hospital chaplains in 1950

Specific Rules for the execution of religious practice and use of religious services in jails and centres of detention

Law on social assistance 1990 

Cemeteries

Law regulating cemeteries and burial practice 1959

Resolution to unify the cemetery regulations from 1959 to 2017

Law regulating cemeteries and burial practice 1959 amended as 2018 

Teaching of Religion and Religious Schools

Regulations, Decisions, Provisions, Ordinances, Circulars

Catechism 1961

Catechism 1961 abstract

Regulation of the Ministry of National Education, amending the conditions and organisation arrangements for religious teaching in public schools 1999

Amendments to the Regulation on conditions and methods of religious education in schools 1999

National Regulation of the Ministry of Education 1992

Laws and Decrees

Religious Instruction on closed or separated Institutions 1997

Provisions of the Criminal Code

Codes

Criminal code 1970

Criminal code 1997

Criminal code in force 

Family

Laws and decrees

The Family Planning, Human Embryo Protection and Conditions of Permissibility of Abortion 1993

Criminal code 1997

Criminal Code 2017 – consolidated version

Law that regulates the interruption of pregnancy 1956

Judgment of the Constitutional Tribunal of 27 May 1997 on The Family Planning, Human Embryo Protection and Conditions of Permissibility of Abortio

Decision of the President of the Constitutional Court of 18 December 1997 on The Family Planning, Human Embryo Protection and Conditions of Permissibility of Abortion

Religious tourism

Laws and decrees

Religious festivities 1951 

Administration Policies and Procedures

Laws and decrees

Public Administration’s Authorities organisation changes 1950

Decision no. 266/2015 of the provincial administrative tribunal in Varsavia

Amendments to the activity of some central and superior bodies of the public administration

Amendments to central organisation of State 1989