SEJM DISCUSSES ADMINISTRATIVE REFORMS

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• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 12, 2011
• Sequence Number: 599
• Publication Date: May 26, 1950
• Content Type: REPORT

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COUNTRY Poland
SUBJECT Political - Decreas
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PUBLISHED Daily newspaper
WHERE
PUBLISHED Katowice
DATE
PUBLISHED 5 Feb 1950
LANGUAGE Polish
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SOURCE Trybuna Robotnicza.
SEJM DISCUSSES ADMINISTRATIVE REFORMS
STATE COUNCILS TO BECOME STATE AGENCIES -- Trybuna Robotnicza, No 36, 5 Feb 50
At the Legislative Se,jm on 3 February, Premier Cyrankiewicz said that re-
forms are now under discussion for increased democratization of the national
administration.
The state councils,.which have become the training schools for mass gov-
ernment and have trained large socialist activist groups, are to become uni-
form government agencies in gmi.nas, powiats, and wo,jewodztwos.
The proposed reform, an important step in building the fundamental struc-
ture of socialism in Poland, will be submitted to the Se,jm as soon as possible.
The present structure of the administrative divisions is an accumulation
of many periods and shows shocking disproportions. The enormous differences
in area and population between the different wo,jewodztwos increase administra-
tive difficulties and retard the development of the woJewodztwo. There are
gminas in certain powiats which are as much as 50 kilometers distant from the
starostwo eat]. In gminas numbering 60 communities, some communities are
20 kilometers distant from the gmina seat.
The Office of State Councils and the Ministry of Public Administration
are making a study of the problem to work out a proper basis for the proposals.
The purpose of the reform is to increase the people's authority in all
administrative levels and grP.dually to adapt the administrative divisions to
the economic structure, a problem now being studied.
,The administration is today approving a measure which provides for the
introduction of councils with some legislative power in the ministries and
central administrations. The activities of these councils will permit a more
systematic coordination and increase efficiency. Their legislative powers
will not infringe on the ministries' sphere of authority.
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A decree regarding security of ofi'ic,al and state secrets was promulgated
recently and will be submitte3 to the IIibh Seim for ratification. This decree
defines the penalti=c for ouch carelessness ar_d ought to be instrumental in
reducing the number of 4pparently unintentional acts so harmful to the national
security.
The general. status of the national security has greatly improved. The
militia and the 02~Id0 xere greatly responsible for reducing the number of crimes
in 1949.
Tn the opinion of Pt?emier Cyrankiewicz, as expressed in his speech to
the Legislative Sejm on 3 February, the most important legislative reforms in
the judicial branch were the modernization of regulations on criminal proce-
dure, ccurt-martial procedure, and certain changes in the law governing the
organization of common (general) courts approved by the Sejm in April 1949?
The reforms in criminal procedure enable the courts and the prosecutors
to concentrate on the more harmful offenses affecting the national economy.
The reform in criminal procedure which introduces the participation of magis-
trates in criminal cases permits a more democratic administration of justice
and increases the representation of working masses,
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