Access to the online register of family foundations – draft amendment to the regulation
On November 25, 2025, a draft amendment to the regulation on the register of family foundations (No. B883) was published on the Government Legislation Center website. The draft is currently at the stage of public consultation and review.
The proposed amendment aims to improve access to data from the family foundation register, which is currently maintained exclusively in analog form by the District Court in Piotrków Trybunalski. The amendment provides for two fundamental changes. First, the Regional Court in Piotrków Trybunalski will be able to issue copies, extracts, certificates, and information from the register of family foundations also in electronic form, upon request submitted in electronic form and authenticated by a qualified electronic signature, a trusted signature, or a personal signature. Secondly, the draft provides for the launch of a family foundation search engine and the presentation of information from the register on the court’s website.
The information made available by the search engine will be of the same nature as the content of the copy, but will not constitute a formal copy from the family foundation register, analogous to the information from the KRS Register of Entrepreneurs.
However, the draft does not introduce a systemic solution analogous to that functioning within the National Court Register (PRS portal), in particular, it does not provide for the possibility of performing registration activities via a dedicated ICT system. Although the proposed amendment may be seen as a first step towards the digitization of the family foundation register, the lack of full electronic processing limits its practical significance.
The solutions introduced may, however, significantly improve the verification processes carried out by financial institutions, in particular when opening bank accounts for family foundations, which until now have been significantly slowed down by long waiting times for paper copies from the register.
However, the scope of data planned to be disclosed on the court’s website, including in particular the address details of the members of the management board and the assembly of beneficiaries, requires critical assessment, raising questions about the proportionality of the solution and personal data protection standards.
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