Monthly summary of key policy developments in Poland (for summer 2014) - changes in Polish government, summary of PM Kopacz's expose, legal developments since July 2014.

1. SEPTEMBER

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Mr Donald Tusk will become the new President
of the European Council, replacing Herman Van
Rompuy on the 1st of December. He is being el-evated
to one of top European positions after 7
years of being the Prime Minister of Poland and
11 years of heading the Civic Platform.
Donald Tusk has been replaced in the Polish gov-ernment
by Ewa Kopacz, former Speaker of the
Sejm (lower house of the Polish parliament) and
former Minister of Health in his government.
Ewa Kopacz’s cabinet will mostly consist of pre-vious
ministers, with the following changes:
Minister of Foreign Affairs Radosław Sikorski
has been replaced by Grzegorz Schetyna, for-mer
Deputy Prime Minister and former Minister
of Interior, leader of the strongest fraction of
Civic Platform’s internal opposition. Mr Sikorski
has now become the Speaker of the Sejm.
Minister of Justice Marek Biernacki has been re-placed
by Cezary Grabarczyk, the leader of the
internal fraction of Donald Tusk’s supporters.
Minister of Interior Bartłomiej Sienkiewicz has
been replaced by Teresa Piotrowska, MP with no
previous experience in internal affairs.
Minister of Infrastructure and Development
Elżbieta Bieńkowska has been replaced by Ma-ria
Wasiak, former member of Polish Railways’
board. Mrs Bieńkowska will now be European
Commissioner.
Minister of Administration and Digitization Ra-fał
Trzaskowski has been replaced by Andrzej
Halicki, MP.
Mr Rafał Trzaskowski has now been appointed
Secretary of State in the Ministry of Foreign Af-fairs
and will be responsible for European pol-icy.
CHANGES IN THE POLISH GOVERNMENT

3. Additionally, Mr Tomasz Siemoniak, Minister of
Defence, has become Deputy Prime Minister. The
change proves the increased influence of Presi-dent
Bronisław Komorowski on the new govern-ment.
Personal details of new ministers are avail-able
in our presentation: http://www.slide-share.
net/ljachowicz/polish-government-af-ter-
change-in-2014
Mr Tusk has ostentatiously left Polish politics,
preparing for his new function and leaving ev-erything
in the hands of Mrs Ewa Kopacz. He is
expected to make his return in 5 years when the
final term of President Bronisław Komorowski
ends.
The new government is often described as the
“government for just one year”, as the next par-liamentary
elections are planned for the second
half of 2015. The next 12 months will be a time
for consolidation of Civic Platform, building the
position of Ewa Kopacz as the new leader (at
the moment, as the deputy chairwoman of Civic
Platform, she is the “acting leader” of the party)
and winning back undecided voters.
First reactions to the changes were very positive
towards the Civic Platform: for the first time in
months, the party went back to the position of
polls leaders.
The most recent, 20th of September, pre-local
elections poll saw both Civic Platform and Law
and Justice at 27%, SLD (the Left) – 11%, PSL (co-alition
party) – 10%, Janusz Korwin Mikke’s New
Right - 3%, Janusz Palikot’s Twój Ruch – 0%.
The low support for Janusz Palikot’s party (third
political power in the Sejm only three years ago)
coincides with the de-facto end of the party’s
parliamentary club; at the end of September, 12
MPs left the club, leaving it with just 15 mem-bers
(the minimal number required to register
a parliamentary club), the next personal moves
are expected to take place in the next weeks.
Ewa Kopacz’s plans for next year
On October 1st, Mrs Ewa Kopacz delivered her
speech outlining her main goals to be reached
by the end of her term (exposé). Key messages
were:
The new government is the government of Ewa
Kopacz, not Donald Tusk (Mrs Kopacz underlined
her independence)
The main goal of Ewa Kopacz is to rebuild the
trust in government. She appealed to leaders of
opposition to end the constant war between the
ruling parties and the opposition.
“What was planned for 3 years will be done in
one”, she said regarding the reform of tax pol-icy:
the basis for the new tax law is to be pre-pared
at the beginning of 2015.
The Prime Minister’s policy will be focused on in-ternal
security, family policy and social security
for families at risk.
Poland will be engaged in further help for
Ukraine.
The Prime Minister will continue the project for
energy solidarity in the European Union.
The government does not agree to raise energy
prices.
Poland will focus on energy security and protec-tion
of coal mines against unfair competition.
Poland will build its own innovative military
potential within the Polish Armaments Group
(PGZ).
2% of GDP will be spent on the army after 2016.
Poland echoes the desire of an increased Ameri-can
military presence on the Polish territory.
Polish government will support signing the TTIP
(free trade agreement between EU and USA).
The introduction of euro will only be possible
during a period of economic stability in the re-gion
– stronger Eurozone and stable Polish econo-my
will determine the date of euro introduction.
De-minimis guarantees programme will be ex-tended
until 2016.
Within 12 months, the government will prepare
a new tax code (basics are to be ready at the
beginning of 2015) and changes in the sole pro-prietorship
law.
New Construction Law is planned for the be-ginning
of 2015 as well as the anti-crisis act for
entrepreneurs who suffered losses as a result of
the conflict in Ukraine.

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Iwona Sulik has been appointed the spokesperson
for the government. She graduated from the Fac-ulty
of Journalism and Political Science at the Uni-versity
of Warsaw. She worked in Kurier Warsza-wski,
then Warsaw Television Centre and TVP Info.
She was a reporter, leading publisher, as well as
parliamentary reporter. Since 2011, she was the
spokesperson and adviser to the Speaker of the
Parliament.
September 23
Prof. Bogusław Pacek –former defence advis-er
has been nominated by the North Atlan-tic
Treaty for the post of the adviser of the
military education system reform in Ukraine.
September 26
The government will introduce regulations that
will prevent the sale of “junk food” in schools from
September 1st 2015.
PLN 13.5 bn is to be spent until 2020 on new trams
and buses.
The Ministry of Health will focus on implementa-tion
of the new oncology legislation and creation
of Geriatrics Institute.
The exposé was surprisingly well- received by most
of the commentators and will most probably re-place
in the public memory the not so well con-ducted
introduction of the new government two
weeks ago. Mrs Ewa Kopacz presented her goals not
only for the next 12 months (even if some of these
projects, like the new Tax Code, must be present-ed
early next year in order to have a chance of be-ing
accepted by the parliament by the end of the
term), but also for the following 5 years. It is a
clear signal for voters that the Civic Platform, in
contrast to opposition, has a vision of changes
and is ready to implement them.
The vote of confidence is planned for this eve-ning.
The ruling coalition has enough votes to win
the vote.
Lukasz Jachowicz
Head of Public Affairs
MSLGROUP Poland
lukasz.jachowicz@mslgroup.com
@ljachowicz

5. The Ministry of Economy, in cooperation with the
Delegation of the European Commission, organ-ised
a meeting devoted to information and consul-tation
service aspects of the Transatlantic Agree-ment
in Trade and Investment (TTIP). They also
spoke about the negotiations for the Agreement
on Trade in Services (TISA).
September 19
The Ministry of Economy presents “The analysis of
aims to implement energy cooperative institutions
to the Polish legal system based on the best prac-tices
of EU countries”. The document contains
an analysis of legal regulations in the European
Union.
September 11
ENEA, KGHM Polska Miedź and TAURON Polska will
each purchase 10 percent of PGE EJ 1 for a total
of 30 per cent of shares. PGE EJ 1 is responsible
for the preparation and construction of the first
Polish nuclear power plant with a capacity of ap-proximately
3,000 MW.
September 4
The Ministry of Economy published an invitation
to the 46th Annual Meeting on Nuclear Technology
(AMNT) in Berlin for Polish industry and research
centers. The conference and exhibition will be
held from May 5-7th, 2015.
September 3
An application developed by a team from the War-saw
University of Technology “SkyDe” has won the
Ministry of Administration and Digitization contest
for the best “privacy friendly” mobile application.
SkyDe allows you to send messages between users
of Skype using steganography techniques.
September 26
The Ministry of Administration and Digitization
will be the point of contact supporting the Euro-pean
Commission in the implementation of the
telecommunications segment of the “Connecting
Europe Facility” - CEF Telecom.
September 24
The Ministry of National Defense decided to con-duct
an urgent overview of the implementation
of activities related to trading specially licensed
military equipment.
September 24
The Press and Information Department of the
Ministry of Defense announced a competition for
graphic design of the web pages of the Ministry of
Defense.
September 22
Lieutenant General Janusz Adamczak was appoint-ed
Chief of Staff of the Allied Joint Force Com-mand
Brunssum (JFC Brunssum). Over the next
three years, he will lead the work of the interna-tional
headquarters of one of the most important
NATO commands.
September 12
October 15 is the deadline for submitting request
under the “Connected Communities” initiative.
The best ideas will be funded by the “technical
assistance” from the World Bank as part of the
“Connecting Europe Facility”. The “Connected
Communities” initiative is designed to support
innovative pilot projects for the development of
broadband networks, which could become a mod-el
for similar efforts across the European Union.
September 29

6. The Ministry of Finance has allowed testing of the
Universal Document System (UBD) to be transmit-ted
in connection with the PIT-11, PIT-8C, PIT-R
and the PIT-40 declaration as multi-documents.
September 29
The draft budget bill for the next year assumes
a GDP growth and inflation at 3.4% and 1.2%, re-spectively.
State budget revenues are planned for
less than PLN 297.3 billion, and PLN 343.3 billion
of expenditure. The maximum deficit should not
exceed PLN 46.1 billion.
September 24
From September 22nd 2014, Poland’s western and
Lithuanian border controls regarding fuel tanks
entering the country will be intensified.
The next session of Sejm (Lower House of Parliament) will be held on the 8th, 9th &
10th of October 2014.
The next session of Senate will be held on the 8th, 9th of October.
The 16th of October will feature ECO-Match Poznań Science and Technology Park
and EEN (Enterprise Europe Network) holding individual business meetings for rep-resentatives
of companies and research units operating in the “eco” business sector.
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European Week of Small and Medium Enterprises starts on the 29th of September.

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