Status prawny spółki cywilnej jako beneficjenta pomocy dla rolników (zagadnienia wybrane)

The paper discusses the issues relating to classifying a private partnership as a separate entity – an agricultural producer. Such a classification affects the existing arrangements both in civil-law theory and practice. It goes beyond the traditional division of legal entities into natural and legal persons and confers upon a private partnership the features of an individualized and specific organizational unit. It also excludes a partner (or partners) of a private partnership from the group of entities eligible to apply for and to be granted an agricultural subsidy, which consequently results in questing statutory rules of cooperation within a private partnership. The paper aims at assessing the laid down criteria and indicating solutions relating to various opinions on legal nature of a private partnership. Additionally, the article points out the regulations which decide about the active capacity of a given entity. The Author concludes that a private partnership is nothing other than a form of cooperation among entrepreneurs-partners. If there is no entity but only the obligation to cooperate, it makes it difficult to give such an obligation a status of an agricultural producer. The legal construct of this relationship includes a clear regulation specifying who and how acquires the rights – the entitled partners and for the benefit of partners. Granting legal personality to a private partnership is against the intention of the legislator.