PiS politicians today presented a draft law on civil protection. “This is a project prepared in 2022, adopted by the Committee on Security and Defense Affairs and then consulted with communities, mainly local authorities,” said Mariusz Błaszczak, chairman of the PiS parliamentary club and former head of the Ministry of National Defense. at a press conference. “He was ready for Parliament to deal with it. It is still on the desk of the current Minister of the Interior and Administrative Affairs,” Błaszczak emphasizes.
The head of the PiS parliamentary club appeared at a press conference with MP Paweł Głosernaker, MP Zbigniew Bogucki and the candidate for the presidency of Warsaw Tobiasz Bocheński.
““We are fulfilling the obligation to establish a civil protection and civil defense system.”
We submit the draft law on civil protection and the state of natural disasters to the Chairman of the Sejm. This project fulfills the promise of establishing a civil defense and civil defense system. This is a project prepared in 2022, adopted by the Committee on Security and Defense Affairs and subsequently consulted with communities, mainly local authorities. The Joint Committee on Government and Local Government approved this project in April 2023.
– emphasized Mariusz Błaszczak.
Later, the Law Committee was convened so that the bill was ready for consideration by Parliament. It remained on the desk of the current Minister of the Interior and Administrative Affairs
– added.
Błaszczak pointed out that when the Sejm – during the PiS government – passed the Homeland Defense Act in March 2022, it was decided that a separate project would be dedicated to civil protection.
System based on PSP and OSP
The politician said that, in accordance with the project, the civil protection system is based on the activities of the state fire brigade and volunteer fire brigades. Błaszczak also believed that the project “offers many interesting solutions for smaller towns. For example, it is assumed that in each municipality there will be an ambulance driven by fire brigade personnel who will complete a medical rescue course.” An efficient alarm system based on the so-called mobile broadcast should also be created.
So that even in the smallest city, medical assistance is available in a crisis situation, in a situation that requires such support
– he pointed.
PiS MP Paweł Shefernaker called for this project to be implemented as quickly as possible. He added that the project was created “based on the experience that the Polish state has in connection with the pandemic, with the arrival of war refugees from Ukraine, in connection with the disaster on the Odra River, and with numerous floods and weather anomalies those have happened in recent years.”
Project assumptions
The project includes – in addition to the above-mentioned solutions – among others: allocation to the Civil Protection Fund 0.1 percent of GDP, i.e. about PLN 3 billion for the higher – up to PLN 10,000. PLN – benefits and construction, modernization and maintenance of shelters.
The RCB remains registered as a unit with the Ministry of the Interior and Administrative Affairs, under the name National Crisis Management Center. He added that one of the new units in the RCB would be the State Duty Service.
The project proposes new states: emergencies and threats. He pointed out that the project includes new regulations regarding natural disasters.
Ideas copied by the current heads of the Ministry of the Interior and Administration and the Ministry of National Defense
Shefernaker also said that under the project, the head of civil defense would be the head of the Ministry of the Interior and Administration.
He noted that many ideas from the PiS project were adopted in the project presented last week by the Head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Administration, Marcin Kierwiński, and the Deputy Prime Minister, Head of the Ministry of National Defense, Władysław Kosiniak. Kamysz.
The draft law on civil protection and civil defense presented by them provides, among other things: a system of warning and warning of dangerous situations, plans to secure the population and clear criteria defining the rules for the construction of new facilities so that they can be used as protective facilities can serve. The project assumes that the head of civil protection will be the head of the Ministry of the Interior and Administration, Marcin Kierwiński. The bill must be submitted to the Sejm at the end of May.
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Source: wPolityce