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The provisions of the Commercial Companies Code precisely define criminal liability related to the functioning of a simple joint-stock company on the market.

Due to the dematerialization of shares, subscription warrants and other participation titles in PSA’s income or assets, it is prohibited to allow the company to issue documents for these titles. Committing this act obliges members of the management board (or members of the board of directors or liquidators of PSA) to incur liability in the form of a fine, restriction of liberty or imprisonment for up to 6 months.

Indeed, it should be emphasized that criminal liability also applies to a member of the management board or board of directors who allows shares to be registered in the PSA shareholder register before registering a simple joint-stock company or before entering a change in the number of shares in the register (in the case of issuing new shares). In this case, the liability consists in a fine, restriction of liberty or imprisonment for up to one year.

It is worth noting that a fine of 20,000 A member of the management board (board of directors) who fails to comply with the obligation to:
– submit a list of shareholders to the National Court Register,
– does not keep a register of shareholders, is subject to PLN 100,000.