Polish late payment act: check payment terms against the 60- and 30-day limits

Under Polish Act of 8 March 2013 on counteracting excessive delays in commercial transactions (consolidated text Dz.U. 2023 item 1790): Articles 7, 8, 8a, 9, 10, 13: payment term of no more than 60 days from delivery of the invoice; payment term of a public entity of no more than 30 days (60 days for a public healthcare entity); acceptance or verification procedure of no more than 30 days. The contract must not contain: the contract fixes the day the invoice is deemed delivered; excluding or limiting statutory interest for late payment; excluding the recovery-cost compensation (EUR 40/70/100). KROTKA checks each of these provisions separately.

The checklist result is not AI-written text. The same version of KROTKA gives the same result for the same document, and every provision found is shown as a verbatim quote (for scans: from the OCR text) that you can check. The optional AI summary is off by default and does not affect the checklist result.

Wording in force since 24 January 2023; checked against current law on 10 October 2026. Wording after the reform of 1 January 2020 and the last change affecting contracts on 24 January 2023 (Art. 9a); consolidated text Dz.U. 2023 item 1790. No further changes to these provisions as of 10 October 2026.

Our measurement: Payment term right in 8 of 8 documents; overall precision 81%, recall 89% at the first blind pass, 95%/95% after fixes (8 contracts and terms; small sample). The first figure is on agreements the engine had not seen, compared with independently prepared annotations; the "after fixes" figure is on the same agreements after the rules were adjusted and does not indicate performance on new documents. Samples are small. We do not guarantee that the list detects every provision or every gap; the user is responsible for assessing compliance and the correctness of the agreement.

No. It shows whether and where the provision appears. Judging its content is the lawyer's job. "Not found" means the engine found no such provision in the uploaded documents. KROTKA does not provide legal advice.

Not always. Between businesses a longer term is allowed if expressly agreed and not grossly unfair to the creditor, but not when a large enterprise pays a micro, small or medium one: then the 60-day limit is absolute. The list shows the longest term found; deciding which case applies is up to you.

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