The currently applicable version of the Code of Commercial Companies

Why you should take this training?

During the training, participants will be introduced to the legal provisions and interpretation thereof concerning the operation of corporate bodies, mutual relations between the latter, liability of the management board and supervisory board, as well as regulations governing corporate documentation, registration documentation and legal actions.
Moreover, participants will learn how to secure the interests of the company and streamline its processes, how to secure the terms of performance of contracts and enforce claims, and how to properly draw up resolutions and minutes of meetings of corporate bodies.

Who is it for?

  1. Members of Management Boards, Supervisory Boards,
  2. Directors and staff of Management Board Offices,
  3. Directors and employees of Legal departments
  4. Management.
  5. Anyone interested in the subject of the CCC

Agenda of the training:

I. Legal grounds for the operation of companies:

  1. Code of Commercial Companies,
  2. memorandum of association and articles of association: key provisions and their significance for the functioning of the company.

II. Types of companies and their specifics:

  1. spółka jawna (general partnership),
  2. spółka partnerska (partnership),
  3. spółka komandytowa (limited partnership),
  4. spółka komandytowo-akcyjna (limited joint-stock partnership),
  5. spółka z o.o. (limited liability company),
  6. spółka akcyjna (joint stock company).

III. Management Board:

  1. structure, competences, organisation, functioning,
  2. convening meetings,
  3. adopting resolutions: when are they necessary?
  4. principles of representation,
  5. no competition
  6. liability of board members towards the company,
  7. mandate and term of office, appointment and removal of management board members.

IV. Supervisory Board:

  1. convening meetings,
  2. adopting resolutions,
  3. term of office, appointment and removal of management board members,
  4. the Supervisory Board's powers of control and the exercise thereof.

V. Shareholders' Meetings / General Meetings:

  1. rules for convening meetings,
  2. preparing invitations, materials, draft resolutions, etc.,
  3. challenging resolutions – authorised persons, legal basis, procedure and consequences.

VI. Regulations – role and importance for the company:

  1. how to draw up and amend regulations,
  2. compulsory and optional regulations and their provisions,
  3. how to use provisions in regulations,
  4. practice – sample regulations.

VII. Minutes and resolutions:

  1. drawing up resolutions and minutes of meetings of corporate bodies (management board, supervisory board, shareholders' meetings, general meeting),
  2. legal requirements for minutes – form and recording,
  3. who signs resolutions and minutes,
  4. storage, archiving and accessibility of minutes,
  5. workshops – drafting resolutions and minutes,
  6. the most common errors.

VIII. Share capital.

IX. Shares and shareholders.

X. Notification of data to the National Court Register (KRS):

  1. updating of data – statutory requirements,
  2. fees,
  3. how to obtain a copy of the entry in the KRS.

XI. Company records:

  1. role of the management office in the smooth operation of the company,
  2. electronic communication in the work of company bodies: rules for safe use,
  3. archiving company documentation, retention periods,
  4. how to keep a share book/share register,
  5. making documents available at the request of persons and authorities,
  6. trade secret.

XII. Contracts in companies compliant with the provisions of the Civil Code.

XIII. Methods for safeguarding contracts according to the Civil Code.

XIV. Questions and discussion.

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