Economy and Law in Eastern Europe: 144. revision of WiRO by C.H. Beck

Handbuch Wirtschaft und Recht in Osteuropa (Economy and Law in Eastern Europe, WiRO), is a collective work, the particular revisions of which are regularly published by C.H. Beck publishing house.

Addressed to western investors and others alike, WiRO comes as a guidebook with replaceable pages, which provides information on changes of the economic and legal conditions in the following ten states of Central and Eastern Europe:

  • Bulgaria
  • Croatia
  • Poland
  • Romania
  • Russia
  • Slovakia
  • Slovenia
  • Czech Republic
  • Ukraine
  • Hungary

The chief editor of the part pertaining to Poland is Dr. Jörn Brockhuis of BSJP law firm.


The 144. revision of WiRO (part concerning Poland) includes an update of Chapter D.II pertaining to contract law. Electronic legal transactions have been an important point of legislative activity in the recent years. Therefore, in the contract law, there have changed e.g. the formal requirements of declarations of will in both conventional and electronic form. Save for the amendment to the legislation, the study also takes into account the current case law and literature.

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