Poland's Cabinet adopts negotiating mandate to amend national recovery plan KPO
Poland's Council of Ministers has adopted a negotiating mandate to amend the national recovery plan KPO, minister of development funds and regional policy Katarzyna Pelczynska-Nalecz announced at a press conference. She added that this amendment will save investment funds from grants for Poland.
"The Council of Ministers has just adopted a negotiating mandate to amend the national recovery plan, a change that will save investment funds," minister Pelczynska-Nalecz told the conference.
She added that the aim is to redirect funds from the grant part to "necessary and feasible" investments from those that are unfeasible due to delays, among other reasons.
As part of the revision, the loan part of the KPO is to be reduced by approximately PLN 21.5 billion (EUR 5 bln), and new taxes, i.e. the tax on combustion engine cars and the new environmental charge on company cars, are to be abolished. These measures are to be replaced by auctions for biomethane and investments in direct gas pipelines for them.
The funds originally allocated to Poland under the national recovery plan amount to EUR 59.8 billion, including EUR 25.27 billion in grants and EUR 34.54 billion in preferential loans.
As of August 18, 2025, the grant part of the agreement amounts to PLN 75,033.1 million (EUR 17.6 bln), which represents 67.2 percent of the allocation, while the loan part has reached PLN 66,114.1 million (EUR 15.5 bln), i. e. 44.1 percent of the allocation.
Poland's national recovery plan KPO has been amended three times so far. The first revision was approved by the European Commission in November 2023, the second in July 2024, and the third in June this year.
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