Register of Contracts Concluded by the Units of Public Finance Sector and the Protection of Privacy and of Personal Data
Provisions providing for the creation of a central register of contracts with a value exceeding PLN 500, concluded by public finance sector entities, have been added to the Public Finance Act. The information contained in the register will be publicly available and the register will be searchable. The paper discusses the practice of making the register available before the introduction of this obligation, presents the assumptions of the draft amendment and changes made in the legislative process as well as analyzes the content of the new provisions. Numerous doubts related to the introduction of the contract register were indicated, including in particular problems with the protection of privacy and of personal data.