The European Commission has informed that, following the evaluation of the latest payment request, Poland has found 30 milestones and 14 investment objectives satisfactory. A full of 54 reforms and 54 investments are foreseen under the National Recovery Plan, whose advancement is simply a condition for the payment of subsequent tranches of EU funds. The EC stressed that gathering the agreed commitments was crucial for further mobilisation of the funds.
Reforms and investments related to this payment request will drive affirmative changes for citizens and businesses in Poland, in peculiar in the areas of education, digital development, clean energy and transport “she told the EC.
For society and development
The funds from the latest tranche of the National Reconstruction Plan are intended to be used, among others, to modernise heating systems in residential buildings and to facilitate the integration of renewable energy networks through the anticipation of connecting cables. In cities with advanced pollution, mandatory low-carbon zones will be created. The EC besides stressed that the funds would support investments in offshore wind energy and the improvement of innovative hydrogen technologies.
From erstwhile payment applications Poland received a full of PLN 67 billion – PLN 27 billion in April 2024 and PLN 40 billion in December 2024. In order to submit the next application, the Polish government must first complete the process of changes to the National Recovery Plan, launched at the end of September this year. EU associate States may apply for payment twice a year.
Another revision
The fresh revision of the Polish KPO envisages, among others, the abolition of charges for the usage of combustion cars and the simplification of the debt pool by PLN 21.5 billion. Poland wants to reduce loans, fearing that any of them could stay unused until the end of the implementation of KPO in August next year, generating costs for the state.
So far, the KPO has been amended 3 times – in November 2023, July 2024 and June 2025, the last revision introduced, among others, the safety and Defence Fund and the strengthening of the State Labour Inspection.
