At the end of November 2024, the acceptance of new conclusions to “clean air” was suspended. The program is to start in a new setting March 31, 2025. National Fund for Environmental Protection and Water Management (NFOŚiGW) He explained in a statementthat the program “with low efficiency and a large number of abuse” was taken over by its predecessors. Meanwhile, companies are waiting for payments. Months.
“Clean air”. Companies can go with smoke. “Virtually all are drowned at the moment”
– In the case of our company, arrears in payments from the NFOŚiGW from the “Clean Air” program reach from July 2024 – Jędrzej Hartka, president of the board of Gottersfeld from Toruń, said in an interview with Gazeta.pl. – The functioning of our company is still possible in some time horizon, because we also deal with other market sectors, but if the situation in the program does not improve in the long run, then No company will survive for several months of payment from the NFEPW. Our company has made full thermomodernization in dozens of houses, but everything was paid mainly from our pocket. At the moment Our situation is tragic he added.
This is not the only company that is in trouble. – The situation of companies on the local Toruń market is the same. Virtually all companies in this industry are currently drowned. They have 100 percent involved funds in the implementation of the investment and all are in the range 2-4 weeks after the declaration of bankruptcy – Hartka emphasized. He assessed that the “Clean Air” program was great in the assumptions, but “if the ministry or NFOŚiGW does not take action immediately, the beneficiaries will lose confidence in the program and the state, and executive companies will be They were massive“.
There are about 100 such companies in our region, and in the scale of all of Poland we are talking about thousands of executive companies, several thousand subcontracting companies and employees. This program will never rise again. The beneficiaries themselves are in a more difficult situation, who will ultimately answer before the National Health Fund and will have to return funds, although the investments were not carried out due to the fault of the fund
– The President of the Board of Gottersfeld told us to us.
Backlog in the “Clean air” program. “Our drama is part of a nationwide disaster”
Gottersfeld passed in an open letter, which was received by gazeta.pl that suspended payments, voids on fund accounts and the lack of any reaction “leads to the fall of entire construction industriesthreats of jobs and subsequent financial dramas. “We continue to read:” suspension of the 'clean air' program, seemingly under the pretext of verifying the payments of overdue funds and changes to protect against abuse, is nothing but lid For the actual lack of funds on the accounts of voivodship funds. Despite the assurances of the alleged 'normalization' of the situation, contractors like us have been struggling with delays that lead us to the brink of bankruptcy for months. Our company, as well as hundreds of others, did not receive payment for services performed last summer. We are waiting for over PLN 2 millionwhich are due to the work done, and we are a small family company. However, this is only a drop in the sea. The total sum of arrears that applies to contractors can even be throughout the country billions of zlotys!“.
It was also emphasized that the suspension of payments leads to exemptions in thousands of companies, and “our drama is only part national catastrophe“” This is a drama that threatens the future of many Polish families. People who wanted to use the program can lose not only the savings of their entire lives, but also hope for cleaner air. This will be another blow for them that will receive trust in state institutions, “we read.
Gottersfeld indicates that officials in response to questions about overdue payments transfer responsibility to others. “Voivodship funds claim that this is a problem of the NFEPW, and the National Fund blames voivodship funds. Everyone claims that the problem is not on their side, but Nobody is responsible for the dramatic situation of contractors ” – it was emphasized in the open letter.” The information we receive is incomplete, chaotic and contradictorywhich makes us lose valuable days that determine the future of our business, “the company added.
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