“The right to make a mistake” in the light of amendments to the Entrepreneurs’ Law

Abstract

Indubitably, Polish entrepreneurs often face legal difficulties. It seems that violation of legal provisions by entrepreneurs who are starting business activity is a widespread phenomenon. In order to make doing business easier, a new provision was introduced to the Act from 6.03.2018 Entrepre-neurs’ Law, the so-called “the right to make a mistake”. In the light of the new legislation, article 21a of the Entrepreneurs’ Law, that came into force on 1st January 2020, only natural persons conducting business activities registered in the Central Registration and Information on Business and are begin-ning or resuming business activities after 3 years of suspension or ceasing their business activities, are entitled to this right. The subject of this article is a consideration of the essence of “the right to make a mistake” by entrepreneurs, which in fact is a method of „self-cleaning”.