Legal determinants of control and supervision in the health system in Poland

The crisis triggered by the SARS-CoV-2 virus epidemic has demonstrated how much of a challenge it is for each Member State of the European Union to ensure the implementation of its health policy in accordance with the pro-visions of Article 168 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Unionand in a spirit of European solidarity. The aim of this article is to present the legal determinants of supervision and control of the implementation of health policy in Poland in terms of its subjective and objective scopes, and their analysis in terms of effectiveness and efficiency. The subject of this article includes the systematisation in legal terms of the competencies and tasks of the entitiesresponsible for the implementation of the state health policy, an indication of the criteria for supervision and control in health protection, and the presentation of the principles and techniques of control carried out in this area of thestate activity. The result of the analysis is the conclusion that the provisions of law ensure the proper functioning of the system of control and supervision system in the area of health protection.