Suspension of a popular program: The European Commission is scheduled to conduct a review on Wednesday, December 11technical meeting with the Polish authorities to discuss the suspension of the Clean Air program and its impact on beneficiaries and ongoing projects financed by the EU” – according to unofficial findings of the money.pl website. The EC press service emphasizes that the key is to eliminate “all cases misuse of funds” from KPO and cohesion policy.
Concerns about “Clean Air”: One of the government's interlocutors admitted anonymously in an interview with the portal that in the Commission they ask about the issue of expenditure in a popular program. – If they start bringing the topic to the table themselves, then we have a problem – he added.
The government reassures: Vice-president of the National Fund for Environmental Protection and Water Management (NFOŚiGW), Robert Gajda, assures that there is no risk of funding being suspended program from the European Union. He emphasized that the Polish government wants to reform the program, and the EU is interested in the scale and nature of potential irregularities.
What is happening with “Clean Air”? November 28 accepting new applications has been suspended. The National Fund for Environmental Protection and Water Management assured that the recruitment of applications for thermal modernization of houses in the flood-affected voivodeships would begin in mid-December. However, “Clean Air” will return in a new version on March 31, 2025.
More We wrote about the planned changes in the text: “Officially: We know when 'Clean Air' will return. A revolution in the program. Here's what will change“.
Source: Money