30th gathering of the Polish Senate.
The order of business was extended to examine 2 acts: the EU Data Network on the level of farm sustainability (FSDN) and the Act amending the Act on the strategy of improvement Institutions.
The home is considering a bill amending the wellness Protection Act against the consequences of tobacco and tobacco usage (government project). It adapts Polish law to European Union government and pursues an crucial public interest in protecting citizens' health. The fresh introduces a definition of a "heated tobacco product", according to which it is simply a fresh tobacco product in which nicotine and another substances are released as a consequence of heating, then inhaled by the consumer, depending on its characteristics as smoke-free tobacco or smoking tobacco. In addition, the amendment modifies the prohibition on the placing on the market, production and import of certain categories of tobacco products, including heated tobacco products.
The Senators took note of the abroad Minister's information on the organisation of the election of the president of Poland in 2025 abroad. The information was presented by Deputy Minister Henryk Mościcka-Dendys.
The legislature adopted 2 resolutions by aclamation.
A resolution on the 85th anniversary of the Katyn crime (an initiative of a group of senators) in which it honors the memory of the victims of the Katyn crime on the anniversary of this collective murder. As recalled in the resolution, the Katyn crime was a genocide started on 5 March 1940, erstwhile russian organization authorities decided to commit unprecedented execution on Polish prisoners of war. First, they were held in NKVD camps and prisons, and then sentenced to death without any charges or court. In Katyn, Kharkiv, Tver, Miednoje, Kiev-Bykownia and another unknown places, nearly 22 1000 Polish intelligence were bestially murdered, including officers of the Polish Army, the Border defender Corps, officers of the State Police, Border defender and Prison Guard, university lecturers, lawyers and foresters, engineers and doctors, state officials and clergymen of various denominations. This included Senators Tadeusz Petrażycki and Jan Slaski, and, probably, Maciej Bundylak, Apolinary Garlicki, Innocent Głowacki, Emil Hordyński, Helena Leczanowska, Mikołaj Masłów and Tadeusz Moszyński. "For decades, the fact about the perpetrators of the Katyn crime was silent and lied, and the destiny of the victims was a secret kept in the hearts of families. present the work of the russian Union is apparent to everyone" – we read in the resolution. Since 2007 13 April in Poland is celebrated Memorial Day of Katyń Crime Victims. On that day in 1943 the Germans informed the public about the discovery of collective graves of Polish officers in the forest close Katyn. "We remember all the murdered. We express our gratitude to those who for years have pleaded for the fact and have kept the memory of the victims from stopping. We call for the protection of the cemeteries on which the brutally murdered citizens of the Republic and memorial sites rest," Senators wrote.
The resolution on the 80th anniversary of the Death March of the prisoners of KL Stutthof (the initiative of a group of senators), in which the legislature pays tribute to all victims of this shameful crime and calls for them to be commemorated. He besides expresses his gratitude to the people of Kashubian, who supported prisoners, frequently with the hazard of their own lives. "Let her heroic conduct be a model to follow and remind that human harm must not be passed indifferently," the Senators appeal in resolution. It reminds us that 80 years ago, during a hard winter and in dramatic conditions, the camp authorities sent 33,000 prisoners to the March of Death, half of them did not survive. all day for 46 days – in fields, in deep snow and in the cold reaching -20o C, dressed only in camp stripes – they had to walk respective twelve kilometres. They were inhumanely treated, hungry, cold, and dying of exhaustion or murdered erstwhile they failed to keep up with their energy. Their bodies were abandoned by the Nazis in roadside ditches and fields. After crossing the pre-war border of the Free City of Gdańsk, prisoners received support from the local population who fed and helped them escape. The residents of Pruszcz Gdański, Straszyn, Niestepowa, Miszewa, Pomieczyn, Łebna, Strzepcz, Żuków or Luzina besides took care of children who gave birth to prisoners, cared for at least part of the victims of the evacuation of KL Stutthof and inactive cherish their memory.
The home will examine the following laws.
The Act amending the Act on the preparation and implementation of investments in atomic power facilities and accompanying investments and the Act on the payment of profits by single-member companies of the Treasury (government project) provides for the recapitalisation from the state budget of Polskie Elektrowni Jądrowe (POJ) by up to PLN 60.2 billion, intended for the preparation and implementation of the construction and operation of the first atomic power plant in Poland and accompanying investments. The condition for recapitalisation is that the European Commission authorises public aid. Support will be provided between 2025 and 30 in the form of an increase in PIE’s share capital by making a cash contribution. A non-monetary contribution in the form of fiscal securities was besides allowed. The amendment sets out the mechanics for applying for an increase in share capital, decision making on the form of recapitalisation, active in the share capital increase process of entities and yearly limits of expenditure from the State budget for the contribution of money. The decision to recapitalisation is to be taken by the Minister of Finance, at the request of the Government's typical for strategical energy infrastructure. The Act provides that the proxy will not be able to apply to the Finance Minister for recapitalisation of the pastry before obtaining the European Commission's approval for public aid in this form.
The Act amending the Act on granting protection to foreigners in the territory of the Republic of Poland (government project) sets out the legal basis for the temporary territorial limitation of the right to apply for asylum as well as the procedure for its introduction. The solutions proposed in the amendment are intended to prevent the destabilisation of the interior situation in Poland and another EU countries resulting from the creation of artificial migration force by neighbouring countries or another entities, while at the same time constituting "a possible limitation of the rights of foreigners wishing to apply for global protection". The amendment assumes that a regulation on the right to apply for global protection may be introduced by a regulation of the Council of Ministers at the request of the Minister of Home Affairs and Administration, who will gotta inform the Sejm Committee on Administration and Home Affairs. The limitation will be temporary and will not exceed 60 days. The limitation period may be extended for a specified period of time, not more than 60 days, after the Sejm has given its consent. The regulation of the Council of Ministers is besides intended to specify the section of the border at which the regulation will apply. At the external border not covered by the Regulation, general rules will apply. The amendment provides that, despite restrictions, the Border defender will accept applications for global protection from unaccompanied minors, pregnant women, persons who may require peculiar treatment, inter alia due to age or health. Nor will the limitation apply to a individual to whom, in the opinion of the Border Guard, the circumstances clearly indicate that he or she is at hazard of suffering serious harm in the country from which she came straight to Poland.
The Act on the Conditions of Admissibility of entrusting work to foreigners in the territory of the Republic of Poland (government project) aims to limit abuse, improve procedures, reduce delays in handling matters by offices, and guarantee full electronicisation of procedures in the access of foreigners to the Polish labour market. The Act allows, among another things, the old man to specify a list of professions and types of work in which work permits will not be issued to foreigners wishing to work in the district. The work to draw up specified a list will arise in the event of a crucial deterioration of the situation on the local labour market, following the affirmative opinion of the Regional Labour marketplace Council. The fresh rules besides supply for the abolition of the procedure of the alleged labour marketplace test, consisting in checking whether the place of employment to be occupied by the foreigner is possible to employment an unemployed individual registered at the labour office. In addition, points for foreigners will be created in the region labour offices. The Act besides introduces mandatory grounds for refusal to grant a work licence erstwhile the employer's company was established or acts primarily to facilitate third-country nationals' entry into Poland. It was provided that the voivode would refuse to issue a licence for the work of a foreigner in the event that the company does not actually carry out any business activity and obtains gross exclusively from making it possible for foreigners to get papers legalising their stay and work in Poland and the Schengen area. The fresh rules besides supply for tougher sanctions for the illegal employment of foreigners; in this case, the fine will amount to PLN 3 to 50 thousand. The Act is besides intended to strengthen the effectiveness of border defender control and State Labour Inspection. He states, among others, that checks with entities entrusting work to foreigners will be possible without notice. The fresh rules supply for full electronicisation of the procedure for granting work permits for foreigners – from the submission of an application to the receipt of decisions on these matters.
The Labour marketplace Act and employment Services (government project) provides for a comprehensive modernisation of labour marketplace institutions whose improvement has been enshrined in the National Recovery Plan. It will replace the employment Promotion Act and labour marketplace institutions 20 years ago. The changes introduced are intended to have a affirmative impact on the sustainability of employment of previously unemployed people and to supply support for circumstantial groups, including young people, seniors, people with disabilities or women. The fresh rules besides include improving the efficiency of labour offices by upgrading and automating their services. The Act provides for an increase of up to 100% of unemployment benefit who have a period of little than 5 years. It makes it easier to improve professional qualifications and to supply backing for employing people over 50 years old. Inactive persons and farmers will be assisted. It is provided that farmers with over 2 conversion hectares which do not have fixed income may apply for unemployment status. The Act provides for precedence of assistance for unemployed members of multi-children families holding the large household Charter and unemployed single-parents. It besides introduces changes in the improvement of the Individual Action Plan (IPD) – it will only be developed for the unemployed registered for a full of over 120 days, long-term unemployed and the unemployed or jobseeker up to 30 years old. The Act besides provides for the introduction of the alleged plus-intervention, which will consist in facilitating the acquisition of not only skills as part of the internship, but besides professional qualifications, which will be rewarded with a grant bonus for the trainee and an employer bonus. The fresh government provides for changes in support for people up to 30 years old. They will consist in assessing the digital skills of specified persons registering as unemployed or jobseekers. Each PUP will appoint an employment advisor acting as a youth adviser. The Act besides provides for an educational debt of up to 400 % of the average wage to pay e.g. training costs, postgraduate studies, confirmation of cognition and skills, obtaining papers confirming the acquisition of cognition and skills, and continuing to survey in school forms, with the anticipation to redeem 20% of its amount. By the age of 18, the age of the disabled kid was increased, whose care costs the old man will be able to reimburse the unemployed. The entrepreneur will be able to receive backing for the employment of a individual who is 50 years of age or looking for a occupation who is 60 years of age – for a female – or 65 years – for a man. The amount of backing will be up to 50% of the minimum wage per month. From 600 to 1000 PLN the amount of the incentive allowance for PES and OHP employees will be increased.
The Act amending the Act – taxation Regulation and certain another laws (government project) concerns, inter alia, the inclusion of an overpayment of the taxation resulting from the taxpayer’s favourable ruling of the Court of Justice of the European Union – at the time of the inception of the overpayment until the date of its recovery. The same rules will apply to overpayments arising from decisions of the Constitutional Court. The amendment besides allows the transmission of authoritative letters by postal operators another than the Polish Post Office. The fresh provisions supply that the time limit for the submission of an authoritative letter — application, consequence to calls, etc. — in paper form will be maintained if it is given to any postal operator. Earlier, in order for the word to be preserved, the letter had to be given only at the site of the alleged designated operator, i.e. via the Polish Post Office.
The Act amending the Act amending the Act on financial support for the creation of social premises, protected housing, accommodation and homes for homeless people, the Act on the protection of the rights of tenants, the housing property of the municipality and the amendment of the civilian Code and any another laws (the parliamentary project) aims to increase to PLN 2 billion the limit of expenditure from the Fund Subsidies provided by Bank Gospodarstwa Krajowego for building residential premises for rents of limited rent, protected apartments, accommodation facilities, homeless shelters, heating facilities and temporary premises. According to the applicants, this is to improve the efficiency of state aid in municipal and social construction. It is estimated that with current housing costs and the structure of expenditure from the Fund The additional amount of PLN 1 billion will support the construction of 1.6 1000 housing units from the municipality's residential resource and over 3.2 1000 housing units in the form of social rental construction.
The Act on the amendment of the Law on the Maritime Areas of the Republic of Poland and the Maritime Administration and the Act on Investments in the Construction of External Ports (Governmental Project) is intended to improve the handling of dangerous materials in Polish maritime areas, including facilitating the operation of the Maritime Administration and another entities active in the management and handling of these materials. It will besides let the implementation of a milestone of the KPO, providing for EUR 28 million for investigation in critical areas in the Polish Baltic Sea Zone. The most crucial solutions include coordination of tasks carried out by ministries, technological and private entities that deal with the identification, testing, monitoring and neutralisation of sunk hazardous materials at the seabed. In accordance with the novel, the competent directors of maritime offices will be required to keep lists of specified studies, in order to let appropriate enforcement of existing rules and to increase cognition of sunk hazardous materials. The Act lays down rules for conducting research, handling sunk dangerous materials and diving in wreckage. It provides that investigation may be carried out by abroad states and legal persons, abroad organizational units without legal personality and abroad natural persons, as well as by global organisations, following the authorisation of the Minister liable for maritime affairs, issued after agreement with the ministers liable for climate, environment, economy, culture and protection of national heritage, internal, higher education and science, national defence and with the heads of the interior safety Agency and the Intelligence Agency. The Act besides lays down rules for handling sunk dangerous materials, which mean those which are lying in Polish marine areas: ammunition, weapons, explosives, chemical weapons and wrecks on which or in close proximity to which there are fuel residues, various types of petroleum substances or another dangerous materials. The suspicion of detection or recognition of specified material is to be reported to the Naval Hydrographic Office, which will keep an electronic registry of sunk hazardous materials. Diving on the wreck will be possible after obtaining the licence of the territorially competent manager of the maritime office. If, during diving, materials likely to endanger the safety of persons or the environment, in peculiar sunk dangerous materials, are detected, this must be reported to the Naval Hydrographic Office. The Act provides that the competent territorially competent manager of the Maritime Authority will, by way of order, identify a list of wrecks made available for diving which are not required to get approval to dive on a wreck, taking into account the location and state of preservation of the wreckage, as well as the request to guarantee the safety of people, shipping and the protection of underwater cultural heritage and the marine environment. It was foreseen that the ship from which diving on the wreck would take place should begin and end its cruise in the Polish port. It will be prohibited to extract any items from the wreckage and to violate its structure. The amendment besides extends the deadline for the implementation of access investments in the ports in Gdynia and Szczecin and Świnoujście, extending the anticipation of utilizing the funds obtained from taxation securities transferred by the Ministry of Infrastructure to the management of these ports and for investments in access infrastructure, in peculiar for the construction of safety breakwaters. The deadline for the reimbursement of these appropriations to the State budget was extended from 31 December 2027 at the end of 2031.
The EU farm sustainability data network (FSDN) (government project) adapts national rules to EU requirements (government project) adapts national rules to EU requirements for the collection of farm accountancy data and extends the scope of these data. The current Farm Accountancy Data Network (FADN) will be converted into a Farm Sustainability Level Data Network (FSDN) to collect and analyse farm data covering the economic, environmental and social dimension. FSDN data can be utilized to measure additional aspects related to the level of sustainable agriculture of the European Union. By the end of 2024, data collected from farms covered 16 subjects (13 in economical terms, 2 in social terms and 1 in environmental terms). There will be added 26 fresh themes (5 in economical terms, 6 in social terms and 15 in environmental terms). The liaison agency will be the Institute of Agricultural Economics and Food Management – the State investigation Institute. The transmission by farmers of FSDN data collected through provincial agricultural advisory centres will stay voluntary and with their consent. For participation in the FSDN, farmers will be entitled to payment – approx. PLN 500 (currently PLN 200).
The Act amending the Act on the strategy of improvement Institutions (government project) increases the expenditure limits of the Polish improvement Fund (PFR), which is intended to enable the Fund to pay off the bonds it issued as a financial shield, including for tiny and medium-sized companies. In the opinion of the task promoter, the Ministry of improvement and Technology, it is essential to adjust the expenditure limit for 2025 provided for in the Act to the amounts of PFR commitments. This is due to the issue of bonds by PFR financing 4 government programs, including the “Financial trade of the Polish improvement Fund for tiny and medium-sized companies”, which assumes that repayment of funds incurred for its implementation is to take place in the years 2022–30, and the yearly cost is about PLN 15 billion. At the same time, if the PFR did not have the funds to repay the bonds, the strategy provides that it has the right to apply for them to the State Treasury. The fund in 2024 is to acquisition a series of bonds – 1 with a nominal value of PLN 18.5 billion, the another for PLN 15,175 billion plus interest. The maximum budget expenditure limit, which is the financial consequence of the Act between 2022 and 30, is besides to be amended. The fresh limit will be PLN 67 billion 482 million 332,000 (currently it is PLN 11.7 billion).
The 30th gathering will besides hold a second reading of 2 draft laws.
The bill on amending the Social Insurance Fund Pensions Act and the Bridge Pensions Act (the legislature Group Initiative) introduces into the pension strategy a fresh privileged professional group – professional dancers, which allows retirement at 40 years of age for women and 45 years for men, after working at least 20 years. Lowering the retirement age for professional dancers will prevent them from retiring early. The Act allows the professional dancer's employment periods to be classified under the contract. The task besides guarantees that the pension received by dancers must not be lower than the lowest pension, which is presently PLN 1780.96. By 2009, dancers had the right to quit at the age of 40 and men at 45. The retirement age of dancers was raised by the 1998 Act, and in 2009 the anticipation of early retirement of dancers aged 50 for women and 55 for men was introduced. As stated in the draft bill, the profession of dancer is simply a profession whose exercise until the time of receiving pension rights is in rule impossible. It was besides stressed that respective years after the liquidation of early retirement for dancers, this profession was in a serious crisis, which is evident in both the activities of professional teams and in ballet education. In the opinion of designers, dancers are a tiny professional group, so lowering the retirement age of this professional group will not consequence in a crucial increase in spending from the state budget. The implementation of the proposed solutions will improve the social situation of professional dancers and their families, and in the long word will increase interest in the dance profession and consequently strengthen dance and ballet teams. It will besides affect the maintenance of jobs in cultural institutions.
The draft law amending the Law on Complaints for violation of the party's right to examine a case in preparatory or supervised proceedings conducted by the prosecutor and judicial proceedings without undue hold (the Petition Commission's initiative) provides for the restoration of the sentenced, subject to the rigors of the Act – the Enforcement Criminal Code, the right to lodge a complaint on the dimension of proceedings and to get compensation in the event of unlawful action by the public authority. The task implements the postulate contained in petition P10–09/23, submitted to the legislature in 2023.
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