There is no trade ban on Sunday, April 10th. This means that large stores and shopping malls will be open. This is only the second trading Sunday in 2022. In two weeks, on Sunday, April 24, it will also be possible to shop in larger stores.
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In 2022 – as in 2021 – there are seven commercial Sundays. In April, the trade ban does not apply on April 10 and April 24. On Sunday, April 17, it is Easter. On this day, the stores will be closed.
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Sunday trading ban – new regulations
From February 1 changes in the ban on Sunday trading are in forcethat sealed the rules. According to these rules, it is possible to open stores on non-trading Sundays, which also provide postal services, if the revenues from this activity exceed 40 percent of the revenues of a given branch. Pursuant to the ordinance of the Ministry of Finance, sales records are to be kept separately for each commercial outlet, even if the entrepreneur has several such outlets.
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Entrepreneurs may be fined from 1,000 to 100,000 PLN for breaking the Sunday trading ban. From February 1, 2022, the same penalty shall apply to a person who does not keep records of the monthly income of the facility or keeps this record in a manner inconsistent with the provisions.
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Sunday trading restrictions
The act that introduced restrictions on Sunday trading has been in force since March 1, 2018. At the beginning of each month – as a rule – there were two trading Sundays – the first and the last. From 2019, trading could be conducted on one Sunday a month – the last one. In 2020, the third stage of implementing the ban began – there were to be seven commercial Sundays. Ultimately, however, the number of trading Sundays in 2020, due to the COVID-19 epidemic, increased to eight.
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PAP
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