Partner of civil company authorized to request restructuring of public debts only if company still operates.

The Supreme Court of Poland allowed the partners of a civil company to request restructuring of social security debts, overturning the Social Insurance Institution's dismissal. The court found that the partners were authorized to act as the business entity only while the company continued its operations, which had definitively ceased in 1997. Consequently, the court ruled that the restructuring procedure could not be initiated because the business entity no longer existed to be restructured.