“The President of the Republic of Poland has vetoed the amendment to the Act on Counteracting Threats of Sexual Crime and Protecting Minors, as well as certain other acts,” reported Zbigniew Bogucki from the Chancellery of the President of the RP. The amendment assumed that schools would not require guardians of children to provide, among other things, a certificate from the National Court Register (KRS), but only a statement.
The amendment to the Act on Counteracting Threats of Sexual Crime and Protecting Minors, vetoed by President Karol Nawrocki, also removed the obligation to double-check a person, e.g., a school would not have to verify a coach who had already been checked in criminal records by the sports club or company where they work.
Under the amendment, the obligation to present certificates would also not apply to people coming to school who are, by definition, required to have a clean criminal record, including police officers, lawyers, legal advisors, or judges. Certificates would also not be required from guests invited to school activities attended by a teacher.
The new regulations also abolished fees for criminal record certificates from the National Criminal Register (KRK) for, among others, volunteers, pupils, trainees, and students undertaking mandatory internships.
The amendment also granted an employee of a collective accommodation facility, e.g., a hotel, the right to request from the person accompanying a minor either an identity card or another document confirming the minor’s identity, and in the absence of such a document, a public document containing the child’s data and image or the provision of the minor’s first and last name, PESEL number, and their relationship to the adult.