The article is a voice in the discussion on the civil-law assessment of the legal basis, prerequisites and scope of the public authority’s liability for losses suffered by entre-preneurs as a result of restriction of their rights or freedoms in connection with the COVID-19 epidemic. The events analysed include the introduction of restrictions that are unconstitutional on substantive or formal grounds and the failure to issue a regulation on the introduction of the state of emergency. The assessment of the prerequisites of adequate causal link and loss is different for each of these events.