““We remember how RARS was attacked by the then opposition,” PiS MEP Michał Dworczyk said in an interview with wPolityce.pl. The former Minister of the Prime Minister’s Office stressed that it is thanks to the hard work of former RARS President Michał Kuczmierowski that the agency’s resources can be used to help flood victims today. “However, it is clear that the state must act quickly here,” MEP Dworczyk concluded.
Two days ago, the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Public Administration announced in a post on the X platform that the resources of the State Agency for Strategic Reserves were launched.
RARS was created by the United Right government and headed by Michał Kuczmierowski, who was prosecuted by Adam Bodnar’s Prosecutor’s Office. Now Tusk’s government can benefit from the procedures developed by the previous government for a rapid response to the crisis.
The Government Agency for Strategic Reserves was created between 2020 and 2021. It replaced the Material Reserves Agency, created in 1996. The mission of RARS is to secure strategic stocks of food, medical and technical products and fuel supplies, not only in peacetime, but especially in the event of armed conflict, threats to public health, natural disasters or other crisis situations. The agency is responsible not only for the collection and supervision of strategic reserves and fuel supplies, but also for their cyclical replacement and maintenance.
– says MEP Michał Dworczyk in an interview with wPolityce.pl.
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“The state must act quickly here.”
RARS gathers stocks of food, medical and technical products and fuel supplies in its warehouses, not only in peacetime, but especially in the event of an armed conflict, a threat to public health, a natural disaster or another crisis situation. The agency is also responsible for preparing fuel supplies and the cyclical replacement of gathered resources. Until mid-2024, the Prime Minister controlled RARS.
RARS is an institution created to help in crisis stations. The Agency has gathered resources that allow it to quickly provide assistance to citizens. The fact that RARS resources can be used today is proof that the previous Agency team, led by President Michał Kuczmierowski, has properly secured the right supplies. Today they can be used by the most needy and by various institutions of the Polish state
– a former minister of the Prime Minister’s Chancellery tells us.
We established RARS around the turn of the year 2020-2021. A special law was prepared and passed. The desk was a tool we developed for emergencies. In our time it was a pandemic. Later there was a hybrid war on the border with Belarus and a war in Ukraine. In all these situations, RARS helped many people. I think this board is familiar to many hospitals and other institutions that operate on the front line in difficult conditions
— recalls the former head of the Prime Minister’s Office.
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We remember, of course, how RARS was attacked by the opposition of the time, which used populist slogans. It is enough to recall the situation of the services – the fire brigade, the police, the border guard and even the army – who, during a hybrid attack on the border, turned to RARS to help them acquire the necessary equipment. Without him, they would not have been able to serve at the time. Due to the regulations in force, their procurement procedures could not cope with the emergency. RARS then equipped all officers serving at the border
– adds the former Deputy Minister of National Defense.
I do not know when RAR resources were activated in the flood situation in southern Poland. However, it is clear that the state must act quickly. The peculiarity of crisis situations is that they change very dynamically. In such cases, the decision-making process must always be as short as possible. All the procrastination and schizophrenia in the administration make crisis management very difficult.
– notes the politician of Law and Justice.
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Source: wPolityce