Joint liability of the investor and the contractor to the subcontractor
Agnieszka Malarewicz-Jakubów
Uniwersytet w Białymstokuhttps://orcid.org/0000-0001-5964-4546
Pawel
Uniwersytet w Białymstokuhttps://orcid.org/0000-0003-1581-7163
Abstract
On 1 June 2017, the Act of 7 April 2017 amending certain laws to facilitate the recovery of claims entered into force. The amendments include the
principles of the investor’s liability for payment of remuneration due to a subcontractor within the Civil Code. Within the justification of the bill, there is
underlined that joint and liability applies to the entire liability and independence of anyone’s fault. After the amendment, according to Article 6471 § 1
Civil Code, the investor is jointly and severally liable with the contractor for
payment of remuneration due to the subcontractor for the construction works
performed by him which have been notified to the investor by the contractor
or subcontractor. Before the amendment, the liability towards the subcontractor was borne solely and primarily by the contractor. The investor’s liability
under Article 6471 § 5 of the Civil Code is related to the contractor’s liability
for payment of remuneration to which the subcontractor of construction works
is entitled. It is based on a contract between the contractor and the subcontractor. Priorly, the investor was liable towards the subcontractor only if its
participation was notified by a relevant annexe or agreement. The investor
also had to agree to perform specific actions by the subcontractor. At present,
the investor and the contractor are jointly and severally liable towards the
subcontractor. Therefore, it is necessary to analyse the previous regulation
and the introduced changes to determine whether the introduced regulations
allow preventing the negative phenomenon of non-payment or late payment of
receivables of subcontractors of construction works by general contractors.
This paper aims to show how the position of the subcontractor and the investor
has changed in light of the introduced amendment.
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