Clive D.W. Feather wrote:
Sergiusz Wolicki said:
The bill is not considered conflicting with EU regulations, which only require DST changes to be synchronized across EU but do not actually mandate the use of DST.
Hmm.
Article 2 says "From 2002 onwards, the summer-time period shall begin, in every Member State, at 1.00 a.m., Greenwich Mean Time, on the last Sunday in March."
It doesn't say "Where a member state observes a summer-time period, ...".
Article 1 similarly doesn't use wording like "where applied".
The literature on the topic on the EU site all seems to assume that having summer time is mandatory.
If I tried hard I could probably bring an argument to the opposite forward, but I suspect a court would throw it out.
The current government of Poland doesn't seem to care much about EU regulations anyway, e.g.: https://www.euractiv.com/section/energy-environment/news/poland-accused-of-i... So why should they obey the EU rules on DST? :( Martin