Is it possible to delete an entity from the KRS without conducting liquidation proceedings?

Registry courts across the country are inundated with requests from shareholders or company bodies to remove them from the National Court Register without liquidation proceedings. Some of them are de facto dead entities: neither with assets nor with operations. But the other part are those who want to take advantage of the new regulations to get rid of the problem cheaply.Opportunities for this were provided by the amendment to the Law on the National Court Register (Journal of Laws 2014, item 1924). Under its authority on December 31, 2015. legal existence was lost for all companies registered in the Commercial Register B in effect years ago and not re-registered in the KRS. However, there is no exact data on how many entities have disappeared in this way. According to estimates by the Ministry of Justice two years ago, it was about. 100,000. Companies and from 60 to 80 thousand. associations or foundations. For example: To strengthen the credibility of the register and thus the certainty of business transactions, regulations have also been introduced to make it easier to delete dead companies from the KRS. The registry court may initiate proceedings to dissolve the entity without liquidation proceedings when the company fails to file reports and coercive proceedings and fines do not result, or, for example, when bankruptcy proceedings cannot be carried out due to lack of funds to cover their cost. In such situations, the court, having found that the company has no business or assets, deletes it from the KRS.

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