- enforcement of court decisions in matters regarding cash and non-cash claims as well as seizure of assets, including European orders for seizure of bank accounts, subject to exceptions provided for in the Act of 17 November 1964 - Code of Civil Procedure (Journal of Laws of 2020, item 1575, 1578 and 2320 and of 2021, item 11);
- enforcement of other enforcement titles that are enforceable in lieu of court enforcement orders without a court enforcement clause;
- enforcement of orders to secure evidence and orders for issuance of evidence in intellectual property proceedings;
- enforcement orders for seizure of estate or drawing up of inventory;
- other activities specified in other acts of the law.
Legal information
The detailed scope of the rights and obligations of Court Bailiffs is set out in the Act on Court Bailiffs of 22 March 2018 (Journal of Laws of 2018, item 771, as amended, hereinafter: “the Act”). According to Article 3(3) of the Act, the rights and obligations of the Court Bailiffs include the following:
In addition to the tasks specified in Article 3 para. 3 of the Act, Court Bailiffs shall perform the following:
- Service of court orders, pleas, and other court instruments on a recipient against a written and dated confirmation of receipt, or else confirm that a recipient cannot be served at the indicated address – based on a court order or a request of a party mentioned in Article 139 (1) § 1 of the Act of 17 November 1964 – the Code of Civil Procedure;
- investigations regarding current address of a recipient based on a court order or an application of a party referred to in item 1;
- drawing up a of statements of facts and findings;
- supervision of consensual public auctions at the request of an auction organizer - with the lowest or highest bid winning.