Modele organizacyjno-prawne zintegrowanego nadzoru nad rynkiem finansowym

The aim of this article is the presentation of legal and organizational models of the integrated supervision over the financial market. The integrated supervision is defined by the Author as the legal and institutional mechanism of cooperation and exchange of information between the supervisory institutions over the particular segments of the financial market. The supervision in this sense may take the form of uni- or multi-institutional model of the integrated supervision over the financial market. This division corresponds to the evolutionary concept of the integration of the supervision, both in subjective and objective aspects. In the first case, it means the union of all functioning existing institutions of supervision acting on different segments of the financial market to one institution performing the supervisory functions over the whole financial market (the vertically integrated supervision). In the second case, the integrated model of the supervision is based on several institutions performing the supervisory functions over the financial market ( the horizontally integrated supervision). In this model the supervision over the financial market was integrated via the creation of mutual and provided by law personal connections existing between individual supervisory institutions and via functional connection of them, which are based on the common aim of the supervision performed by these institutions. Mentioned above considerations allowed the Author to the statement that the condition of existence of the integrated supervision, both in the form of uni- or multi-institutional model of the integrated supervision is the guarantee of independence in personal, financial and functional sense from the political power – e.g. from the government, given to the institution exercising the supervisory functions over the financial market. This solution will ensure the realization of the aim of the supervision which is the proper functioning of the financial market, its stability, security and transparency. Basing on the proposed classification of different models of integrated supervision, the Author submits the characteristic of the model of supervision actually adopted in Poland and in France.