Documents on ecology, nature and environmental protection are being developed at EU level. As part of EU lawmaking, Poland is starting to lose control of its own natural resources, Paweł Sałek, an adviser to President Andrzej Duda, told the PAP Studio on Wednesday. This will create a problem with state and government accountability, he added.
A meeting of the European Union’s Environment Council took place in Luxembourg on Tuesday. Poland was represented by Deputy Minister of Climate and Environment Adam Guibourgé-Czetwertyński. The subject of the meeting was the negotiations on the Nature Restoration Act and the CO2 emission standards for heavy commercial vehicles, as well as the Air Quality Directive. Poland, Italy, Finland, Sweden, Belgium, the Netherlands and Austria voted against or abstained and the Council adopted a general approach on the regulation on the restoration of natural resources.
Referring to this decision in the PAP Studio on Wednesday, Paweł Sałek stated that as a result of enforcing similar legal remedies, “Poland is beginning to lose control over its natural resources.”
According to the presidential adviser, this will lead to “a problem related to maintaining the governability of the state and government”.
Whatever the government – right, left, centrist – the point is that the state, as dominion, will lose its influence over what happens at the national level. We need to say it clearly and loudly
Salek noted.
The regulation (Law on Nature Restoration – PAP) imposes obligations on Poland to, for example, replenish, renew water resources. As a rule, I do not question this very important idea of improving the environment, but let’s not forget that Poland has a completely different situation and maintains natural resources very differently than, for example, Western European countries. In the first place, it is the countries of Western Europe that have to renew their own natural resources
he pointed it out.
“There is a situation where it is the Poles who must be instructed”
It cannot be the case that the countries of the former Eastern bloc are forced (…) to achieve the EU-wide target. (…) Today there is a situation where Poles must be instructed and receive instructions from Brussels on how to protect their natural resources, which we have maintained
he stressed.
According to the guest of the PAP study, issues related to nature conservation, forestry as well as the rule of law or forced displacement of migrants prove that the EU strives to usurp the exclusive powers of the member states by EU bodies.
At the level of the European Union, as part of the New Green Deal, as part of the Fit for 55 package (…), the European Commission carries out legal acts that directly affect Member States’ competences in a very practical and ruthless way
– he said.
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