Supreme Court allows social security surcharge based on all evidence, rejecting arbitrary silence assumptions.

The Supreme Court of Poland quashed the appellate court's decision and remanded the case for a new ruling on social security surcharges. The lower court had incorrectly assumed zero employees were exposed to noise in 1993 due to lack of measurements, ignoring contradictory statistical data and witness testimony. The Supreme Court held that the second instance judge violated procedural rules by arbitrarily limiting evidence evaluation, failing to consider all available proof when determining risk categories.