Abstract

In response to the COVID-19 epidemic, additional restructuring proceedings have been introduced into the Polish legal system – a simplified restructuring procedure. It is a hybrid procedure, based on the regulation for the arrangement approval proceedings; it is temporary and one-off. The article presents the grounds for initiating the simplified restructuring procedure and the issue of its verification, in particular verification whether the debtor has not already announced the initiation of the simplified restructuring proceedings. Due to the reduced role of the restructuring court, there are practical problems as regards verification of those grounds, which is explained in detail in the article.