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The legislature's failure to include, in the Act on the Management of Immovable Property, the return of immovable property expropriated on the basis of the so-called “Special Act on Public Road Investment Projects” SK 37/19

Ref. No. SK 37/19

 

JUDGMENT
IN THE NAME OF THE REPUBLIC OF POLAND

 

Warsaw, 30 June 2021

The Constitutional Tribunal, composed of:

Bartłomiej Sochański – Presiding Judge
Stanisław Piotrowicz
Justyn Piskorski
Wojciech Sych
Michał Warciński – Judge Rapporteur,

having considered, at a sitting in camera on 30 June 2021 – in accordance with Article 92(1)(1) of the Act of 30 November 2016 on the Organisation of the Constitutional Tribunal and the Mode of Proceedings Before the Constitutional Tribunal (Journal of Laws – Dz. U. of 2019, item 2393) – the constitutional complaint of A.R. and T.R., lodged with the Tribunal for it to consider the conformity of:

1) Article 216(1) of the Act of 21 August 1997 on the Management of Immovable Property (Journal of Laws – Dz. U. of 2015 item 782, as amended) – insofar as it rules out the appropriate application of the provisions of Chapter 6, Part III, of the said Act, as regards the return of expropriated immovable property acquired by the State Treasury on the basis of the Act of 10 April 2003 on the special terms of carrying out public road investment projects (the so-called “Special Act on Public Road Investment Projects”; Journal of Laws – Dz. U. No. 80, item 721, as amended)) – with Article 2, Article 64(1)-(3), Article 32(1) and (2), Article 21(1) and (2), Article 31(3) of the Constitution of the Republic of Poland;

2) Article 23 of the Act of 10 April 2003, referred to in point 1 above – insofar as it limits the  reference to the provisions of the Act on the Management of Immovable Property only to matters unregulated in Chapter 3 of the Act of 10 April 2003, with Article 2, and Article 32(1) and (2) of the Constitution of the Republic of Poland,

adjudicates as follows:

Article 23 of the Act of 10 April 2003 on the special terms of carrying out public road investment projects (the so-called “Special Act on Public Road Investment Projects”; Journal of Laws – Dz. U. of 2020 item 1363 as well as of 2021 item 784) – construed in the way that it does not provide for the appropriate application of the provisions of Chapter 6, Part III, of the Act of 21 August 1997 on the Management of Immovable Property (Journal of Laws – Dz. U. of 2020 item 1990 as well as of 2021 items 11 and 234), is inconsistent with Article 21(2) in conjunction with Article 64(2) of the Constitution of the Republic of Poland.

Moreover, the Tribunal decides:

to discontinue the proceedings as to the remainder.

The ruling was unanimous.

Bartłomiej Sochański
Stanisław Piotrowicz
Justyn Piskorski
Wojciech Sych
Michał Warciński