A simplification of up to 70% of the time needed to complete the formalities related to the implementation of military construction investments – this is the effect of the fresh regulations adopted by the government on Tuesday. According to the MON, changes are essential to enable the military to develop, take on the state of the weapons already ordered and implement projects specified as the Tarcza East.
– The investment process takes besides long. A large part of it is the phase of decision-making and issuing environmental consents, water permits, various opinions, decisions that slow down the investment process – said Deputy Prime Minister Władysław Kosiniak-Kamish at a press conference. A gathering with journalists took place after the end of today's government meeting, at which the Council of Ministers adopted a draft law on strategical investments. The paper envisages a crucial simplification in administrative and bureaucratic procedures in order to accelerate the pace of implementation of crucial projects. – Military investment and public security they must be implemented immediately, they are an absolute priority. We are ending this inability, which unfortunately we met after taking over the government," added the head of the MON.
The proposed changes will lead to a much faster decision-making way for strategical and defence investments. They are intended to cover investments crucial for the sake of national security, specified as: construction of a fortification belt along the border with Belarus and Russia.. Accelerated procedures can besides be utilized by the military to grow garrisons associated with expanding the number of soldiers in the service or building the infrastructure essential to accept fresh weapons. "These solutions concern the Ministry of National Defence, investments in military areas, but besides the Ministry of Interior and Administration in the field of civilian protection, the construction of shelters or warehouses for civilian protection," said Deputy Prime Minister Kosiniak-Kamish. The provisions will besides cover investments by defence companies, both private and public.
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Cezary Tomczyk, Secretary of State at the Ministry of Defence, demonstrated in an pictorial manner at the conference the anticipated effects of the entry into force of the fresh regulations. “This is the investment documentation that concerns the simplest investment in the Polish Army,” he said, showing 2 fat binders with documents. – This is about 2 1000 pages of documents, which concern e.g. building a warehouse for combat measures. erstwhile the law is changed, the number of papers will decrease to respective twelve pages. The process will be highly simplified so that investments in the military can be implemented immediately," added the Deputy Minister. MON estimates that the time needed to prepare the investment from the formal side will be reduced from 50 to 70 percent.
The bill adopted present by the government will now go to Parliament for further legislative work.
