On Tuesday at 11:00, the government will hold a meeting at which the Minister of Funds and Regional Policy, Katarzyna Pełczyńska-Nałęcz, will present a report on the preparations for submitting the second and third payment applications under the KPO. The schedule also includes a draft of amendments to the road transport regulations.
According to the Council of Ministers schedule published on the Cabinet’s website, ministers will meet on Tuesday to, among other things: hear the report of the Minister of Funds and Regional Policy on the preparations for submitting the second and third payment applications under the National Reconstruction and Resilience Plan.
In mid-August, Pełczyńska-Nałęcz announced that further applications would be submitted to the European Commission by 13 September, with the money reaching Poland by the end of this year. The total amount of both applications is expected to be over PLN 30 billion. Poland received the money from the first payment application from the KPO (PLN 27 billion) in April this year.
According to the announcement of the Ministry of Funds of August 8, recruitment has started so far for 38 investments for 64.84%. KPO allocation. Including 32 investments for 80.6%. allocation in the subsidy part and in 6 investments at 42.7 percent. allocation in the loan part.
The case of road transport
On Tuesday, the Cabinet will also discuss the draft amendment to the Act on the Provision of Drivers in Road Transport, drawn up by the Ministry of Infrastructure. The aim is to implement changes related to the introduction of an EU directive into the Polish legal order, according to which Member States may not restrict the use on their territory of a vehicle rented by an undertaking established in another Member State if the vehicle is registered or approved for traffic in accordance with the standards of another Member State.
As stated in the impact assessment of the regulation, the amended regulations will allow road hauliers operating in Poland to temporarily use vehicles registered in the territory of another EU country. “The use of vehicles rented in any Member State is intended to make it easier for operators to respond to short-term, seasonal or temporary increases in demand and to replace broken or damaged vehicles, while maintaining compliance with the necessary safety requirements and providing appropriate guarantees for working conditions for drivers,” the Prime Minister’s Office said on Friday.
The amendment also aims to ensure the application of a “coherent national strategy for the enforcement of the provisions on cabotage”, i.e. the commercial carriage of freight between pick-up points in a Member State of the European Union or EFTA other than the country where the haulier is located. As noted in the RIA, this is intended to target undertakings with a “high level of risk” as referred to in the Directive. The strategy is to be developed every two years.
The provisions of the proposed law also oblige the General Road Transport Inspectorate (GITD) to provide the European Commission with annual data on cabotage transport inspections in the previous calendar year.
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Source: wPolityce
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