The activities connected with public roads construction in Poland has increased significantly during last years. Unprecedented scale of these investments, resulted from the country’s accession to the European Union and co-hosting the European Football Championships in 2012. The different activities planned and executed last years revealed many weak points of law and constrained legislative changes. In this paper the basic assumptions and fundamental rules concerning legal procedures of land acquisition for public roads construction has been described. At first a brief information on what a term “public road” means and how the roads has been classified according to Polish legislation was given. The article shows the similarities and differences between the procedures of land acquisition according to the Polish legal acts especially in terms of the entities involved in them or administrative acts causing deprivation or restriction of rights. It also compares solutions adopted in Poland to the German and Norwegian ones. The conclusions are as follows: the example of Poland shows a real diversity of land acquisition procedures. There are procedures, that omit the negotiation stage, there are also ones that cannot be accomplished without it, foreign procedures presented in the paper are similar to the Polish Real Estate Act’s one, in terms of the entities involved in the procedures one can notice bigger disparity.

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