Will there be more shopping Sundays? An important declaration was made
It looks like there will be no more trading Sundays for now. The originator of the bill loosening the provisions in this area, Ryszard Petru, admitted in Radio Zet that it was being blocked in the Sejm.
March marked the 8th anniversary of the introduction of the Sunday Trading Restriction Act. In the initial period – from March to December 2018 – stores were open on the first and last Sunday of the month, in 2019 only on the last. In the years 2020-2024, there were seven trading Sundays a year. We are talking about the last Sunday of January, April, June and August, as well as the Sunday before Easter and two Sundays before Christmas. Last year, there was a change that included the introduction of an additional shopping Sunday at the beginning of December in exchange for a free Christmas Eve.
After the change of government in 2023, it seemed that the liberalization of the law on the ban on trading on the last day of the week was a matter of time. Most of the groups that make up the current coalition announced during the campaign that regulations in this area would be loosened to a greater or lesser extent. Meanwhile, nothing has been done about this matter for two years.
Will there be more shopping Sundays? Petru skeptical
Since June 2024, a project sponsored by MP Ryszard Petru has been in the Sejm, which provides for a return to the solutions from the first period of operation of the Act, i.e. the introduction of two shopping Sundays a month. However, it is stuck in the parliamentary committee on social policy and family and – as Petru’s last statement shows – there is no hope for a breakthrough for now. In Wednesday’s interview for Radio Zet, the politician was asked by one of the Internet users whether he had given up the fight for the liberalization of the Sunday trading ban act? The Centrum club MP replied: – No, I haven’t given up, I’m just blocked in the committee.
When asked who was blocking it, the politician pointed to the head of the social and family policy committee, Katarzyna Ueberhan, who, as he said, “does not allow work to start, so the project is frozen.”
A SW Research survey for “Wprost” conducted two years ago shows that Petru’s proposal is supported by 56 percent. Poles. In turn, 30 percent of us do not want to restore two shopping Sundays a month, and 14 percent respondents have no opinion on this matter.
