2023, Lipińska, Izabela, Dobkowski, Jarosław

Public administration bodies perform a number of tasks with regard to agricultural public registers. Nowadays, a very important factor contributing to the improvement and optimisation of these registers is their computerisation. Therefore, the aim of this study is to answer the question whether the legal regulations proposed at the EU and national level in order to organise public registers in agriculture allow their efficient operation in Poland and thus enable the fulfilment of their functions via the ICT system. The authors conclude that the stage of computerisation of official registers containing data on farmers and their activities in Poland should be assessed quite positively. There is no doubt that the aim of computerisation in public administration is to make the processes comprehensible and transparent, as well as to enable their continuous adaptation to the changing information and communications technologies. Hence, further rapid development requires more financial and organisational investment.

2024, Dobkowski, Jarosław, Lipińska, Izabela

Abstract The subject of the article is issues related to the efficiency of agricultural administration as a basis for protecting the confidence of agricultural producers in public authority. Agricultural activity is increasingly determined by the norms of administrative law. Specific in this case, the administration is entitled to build a certain institutional environment that allows it to appoint the bodies necessary for the implementation of the instruments that affect it, and thus to determine the activity of agricultural producers in the desired direction. The purpose of the article was to answer the question of what factor affects the level of confidence in public authority in agricultural producers in the course of their agricultural activities. The article concludes that the actual level of confidence in public authority depends on many factors, including, in particular, individual and collective confidence in the effective operation of the administrative apparatus.

2022, Lipińska, Izabela, Dobkowski, Jarosław

The subject of this article are issues related to the functioning of the food safety system in terms of institutions and administrative entities established for this purpose at the EU level. The aim of the considerations is to answer the question whether the adopted legal solutions will enable effective official control of agri-food products. They are based on the assumption that only coordinated control and monitoring programmes serve to prevent or minimise exposure to food hazards. At the same time, they should cover the entire agri-food chain, and the application of a coherent approach to official controls and enforcement measures should serve this purpose. Member States are responsible for compliance with EU legislation in this regard. They shall indicate the competent central authority or authorities to which they entrust control competences. Their specific role is, among other things, the development of procedures or solutions used to ensure the efficiency and usefulness of official controls and other official activities. Official food control is one of the most important instruments of the food safety system. Therefore, the extension of its scope to the entire agri-food sector should be evaluated positively. The EU control model created allows for its effective organisation. At the same time, it should be stressed that the environment of the agri-food chain is constantly changing, which requires constant adaptation of the official control system by the EU legislator.