The Participation of Chambers of Commerce in the Decentralization of Public Authority

Abstract

Chambers of commerce are an organization associating entrepreneurs, constituting, according to the act, a form of business self-government. This self-government, unlike local one, has a varied form. Included in art. 17 sec. 2 of the Constitution of the Republic of Poland, the regulation of business self-government does not allow for its classification into the category of public law entities and cannot be considered a form of decentralization of public authority. This does not prevent the occasional delegation of public tasks to chambers of commerce.