Poland's lower house passed the hotel services act amendment on Thursday, 407 votes to 24.
The provision being reported lets a building vote short lets out from 2028. That is in the act. It is also 2028.
The provision that starts 14 days after publication is article 41b, and in translation it reads:
"the locally competent authority keeping the register of other objects in which hotel services are provided deletes the object from that register if, as a result of inspections by the competent authorities or services, a total of three breaches of safety and public order are found within 6 months of the finding of the first breach"
Three findings in 6 months and the unit comes off the register. No re-entry for a year, and a notification filed before that year is up has no effect.
Three things worth knowing.
The verb is indicative, not permissive. The authority deletes. The remedy that exists today lets the mayor order a halt until you fix the problem, and it is curable. This one is not.
The lockout follows the unit, not the operator. The act gives a year from the deletion of "that object" and nothing in it resets the clock on a sale or a change of manager. If you buy or take on management of a Polish unit, its inspection history just became a due diligence item.
The inspection can be requested by a neighbour whose own unit carries a share of the common parts, by the owners acting together or by a co-operative's board. A complaint is not a finding and obliges nobody to inspect. But fail to submit to the inspection and the mayor suspends your register entry, and trading on a suspended entry carries a new fine of up to 50,000 zloty. Entry suspension does not exist in Polish law today. This act creates it.
None of this is law yet. The upper house has 30 days from the day the text reaches it, and if it stays silent the act passes anyway. The President then has 21 days, and the act takes effect 14 days after publication. Two 4 month clocks start from there: you owe your mayor a draft set of house rules, and your mayor owes your existing entry an update, which if missed makes it lapse.
A register entry you can lose is a different kind of compliance from one you just file.
And a correction to Monday: Munich's by-law does carry the 50,000 euro registration fine, and has since 1 August. No portal yet, so nothing bites.
If you hold Polish inventory, do you know what the last inspection of your buildings actually found?
