According to the provisions of the Bill of 9 June 2006, the Central Anticorruption Bureau is competent in:

1. criminal investigation,
   2. corruption prevention,
   3. anticorruption information,
   4. operational activities.

Concerning the first activity, the Central Anticorruption Bureau shall identify and reveal crimes, as well as investigate its perpetrators. Those CBA officers' activities have an investigative (criminal proceeding) character indeed. The criminal investigation concerns therefore identification, detection of a perpetrator and bearing criminal responsibility in consequence. In this case it means that combating corruption by the CBA may also concern instituting and leading the pre-trial proceedings.

The Central Anticorruption Bureau as a specialised State service with police powers shall identify, prevent and detect any form of a crime (and its perpetrators) against:

• State and self-government institutions' activities,
• political parties' financing,
• justice, elections and referendums, public procurement, credibility of documents, property, economic turnover, tax duties, grant and subvention settlements - whether it is with connection to any form of corruption or activity which may endanger the State's economic interests.

 

The second area of CBA's activities relates to the corruption prevention matters as prevention of any corrupt behavior or practice which is not a crime yet. The Central Anticorruption Bureau as a special anticorruption service shall ensure a correct, free of abuses and pathologies functioning of the State and its economy.

 

The abovementioned aim is supported by special instrument (called 'controlling activities') which controls the breaching anticorruption law by:

• disclosuring and reacting in cases of breaching law concerning e.g. limitations of running of a private business by public officials, privatization and commercialization, financial support, public procurements, state or private properties, concessions, permissions, exemptions, allowances, preferences, quotas, plafonds, credit guarantees,
• verifying the correctness and authenticity of public officials declarations and running of a private business declarations.

The third area of CBA's scope concerns all information on the corruption-related matters and any activities which may endanger the State's economic interests. Due to the CBA Bill's provisions, this information shall be submitted to the Prime Minister, the President of Republic of Poland and the Parliament. A special CBA's obligation is to provide the Parliament the information about the results of its activities as well as provide the report to the Prime Minister and Parliamentary Special Services Committee until 31 March of each year at the latest.

The public administration bodies, self-government institutions and other State institutions are obliged to cooperate with the CBA in order to ensure performance of CBA's tasks. CBA is financed by the State.