Reglamentacja działalności gospodarczej – próba systematyki

The paper deals with the problem of controlling economic activity as an issue pertaining to the Public Economic Law. In the first place, the author undertakes to systematize the notion of control of economic activity in view of a varied understanding of it which can be found in the literature of the subject. He draws attention to the Constitutional and acts-based guarantees of economic activity, as well as to the conditions in which control of this sphere can be applied. The problem area of control of business activity is presented on the basis of the following typology: first, temporal and subjective limitations in running businesses are discussed; then, objective limitations which appear in the form of granting concession to run an economic activity, regulated activity, permits, licences and agreements to run business activity – the key issues from the point of view of the problem of control – are analyzed.