Jakub Chlebowski

Technological progress not only means that companies can provide new and better services; it has a major impact on the labor market in a sector without which there would be no progress – the IT sector. Due to public levies related to employment contracts (taxes and social security) in the Polish IT sector, it is common for programmers to work for IT companies on a B2B basis instead of under employment relationships; IT companies use the services of programmers who work for the companies as independent, self-employed freelancers. The percentage of people working on B2B contracts is particularly high. According to the website No Fluff Jobs, as many as 75% of job offers for IT specialists in the whole of 2020 were for work on B2B contracts[1].

On 25 March 2022, the Government Legislation Centre published what is now the seventh version of a bill amending the National Cybersecurity System Act. The previous version of the bill, of 12 October 2021, caused much controversy among the public – especially proposals regarding the procedure for classifying a hardware or software supplier as a high-risk supplier, and the possibility of instructions being issued as security measures requiring the entities that form the national cybersecurity system to take certain kinds of action.

In December 2021, the Council of the European Union, of which the presidency was held by Slovenia, reached a consensus on the wording of the NIS2 Directive, due to replace the current NIS Directive (2016/1148) in force since 2016, and the Critical Entity Resilience Directive (CER), due to replace Council Directive 2008/114/EC of 8 December 2008 on the identification and designation of European Critical Infrastructures.