SOCIAL CO-OPERATIVES BEFORE AMENDMENT (Spóldzielnie socjalne u progu nowelizacji.)

AThis article presents proposed amendments to the social cooperatives' act - anticipated effects, concerns and benefits. The aim of the amendment's project is to organize the existing legal situation. The study tries to specify the consequences of the decision that legal person will be able to establish social co-operatives, as well as to answer the question of whether the social co-operative will or won't be in a privileged position, as a result of the amendment? The authoress answers also other questions, such as: which role a social co-operative is intended to play and what is legislator's intention in this respect? The article is an attempt to investigate draft of the amendment's regulation and comment on them.