On the irreducibility of fibres of complex polynomial mappings.
The equivalence of the definitions of the Łojasiewicz exponent introduced by Ha and by Chądzyński and Krasiński is proved. Moreover we show that if the above exponents are less than -1 then they are attained at a curve meromorphic at infinity.
We give the formula expressing the Łojasiewicz exponent near the fibre of polynomial mappings in two variables in terms of the Puiseux expansions at infinity of the fibre.