Poland's Crypto Law Fails a Third Time, Leaving the Only Gap in Europe

Poland remains the only EU member state without a functioning national framework for MiCA, after the Sejm again failed to override President Karol Nawrocki's veto of crypto regulation.

Friday's vote, the third such attempt, fell 25 votes short of the three-fifths majority required to reverse his decision.

Inside Poland's Third Crypto Veto and Nawrocki's Reasoning

Of 442 lawmakers present, 241 voted to override the veto, 198 opposed the motion, and three abstained, falling short of the 266 votes needed. Nawrocki first vetoed the legislation in December, then again in an earlier version, before rejecting it a third time on June 11.

At that rejection, Nawrocki argued lawmakers had addressed only one of sixteen changes his office proposed. Bad law does not become good law simply because it passes a hundred times, he said in his statement.

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The bill would have designated Poland's Financial Supervision Authority, known as KNF, as the country's official crypto regulator, aligning domestic rules with the EU's Markets in Crypto-Assets (MiCA) Regulation. All EU member states were required to implement MiCA by July 2026, a deadline Poland has now missed entirely.

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