<img src="https://publish-01.obsidian.md/access/744ac39d33cabbc297b91373bfcac24d/bin/images/Poland_map.png" alt="Poland" class="page-header-sidebar-image"> Poland has provisions in its legislation relating to the granting of compulsory licences. These can be found in Act of 30 June 2000 on Industrial Property.  A compulsory licence may be granted in exceptional cases provided for in Art. 82 IPL where: • it is necessary to prevent or eliminate the state of national emergency, in particular in the field of defence, public order, the protection of human life and health, as well as the protection of the natural environment; or • it has been established that the patent has been abused; or • it has been established that the patent holder enjoying the right of priority of an earlier application prevents, by refusing to conclude a licence contract, the meeting of home market demands through the exploitation of the patented invention (the dependent patent), whose exploitation would encroach upon the earlier patent; in such case, the holder of the earlier patent may demand that an authorisation be given to him for the exploitation of the invention that is the subject matter of the dependent patent (cross-licence). The fourth ground on which it is possible to grant a compulsory licence was defined in EU Regulation 816/2006. More information can be found [here](https://e-courses.epo.org/wbts_int/CompulsoryLicensing/CL_PL.pdf).