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TITLE: Poland's Financial Supervision Authority Clarifies Settlement Procedure Application in Appeal Proceedings BODY: On April 27, 2026, Poland's Financial Supervision Authority (Komisja Nadzoru Finansowego, KNF) published guidance clarifying the application of settlement procedures (układy) in administrative proceedings, particularly regarding their use at the appellate stage. The KNF's position reflects a shift in its enforcement approach following more than two years of experience with settlement provisions under Articles 18k et seq. of the Act on Supervision of the Financial Market. Initially, the KNF permitted settlement procedures at the appellate stage to allow entities already in second-instance proceedings to benefit from extraordinary penalty mitigation. However, the KNF now considers settlement procedures should be pursued at earlier stages, ideally before or during first-instance proceedings. The KNF states that settlement conditions—cessation of legal violations or remediation of non-compliance—must be fulfilled at the earliest opportunity to meaningfully accelerate proceedings and achieve supervisory objectives. Consequently, merely ceasing violations or remedying non-compliance after a first-instance decision is issued will no longer justify initiating a settlement procedure. Settlement procedures at the appellate stage will only be permissible where substantial new circumstances emerge—unrelated to violation cessation or compliance remediation—that enable supervisory goals otherwise difficult to achieve through standard administrative sanctions. Such circumstances include remedying violation consequences, compensating harmed clients, or undertaking settlement commitments directly linked to the violation and meeting statutory requirements. The KNF emphasises this position aims to ensure settlement procedures align with their original purpose, not to restrict their application. Violation cessation or compliance remediation occurring after first-instance decisions, while insufficient for settlement procedures, may still be considered by the KNF when determining administrative sanctions outside the settlement framework.
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