Niemiecki model komunalnej skargi konstytucyjnej

Abstract

The communal constitutional complaint was provided for in the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Germany. It is a special kind of complaint functioning alongside and notwithstanding the constitutional complaint in general understanding. In Germany the basis of lodging it with the Constitutional Tribunal is the infringement of ”the right to self-governance”. In the Constitution of the Republic of Poland, however, this kind of special complaint which local self-government units are entitled to in case of the infringement of their independence (self-governance) is not provided for. At present, neither a communal motion for the examination of the constitutionality of a legislative act nor a general constitutional complaint constitute effective and sufficient measures of the protection of this independence. This being the case, it would be advisable that self-government units in Poland are given the right to lodge ”a communal constitutional complaint” about legislative acts that infringe the right to self-government with the Constitutional Tribunal, based on the solutions found in other legal systems in this area.