The Council of Ministers became acquainted with the draft amendment to the windmill act and adopted it directionally, official confirmation will take place in circulation until Friday – after the Tuesday meeting of the government, the deputy prime minister, head of the Ministry of National Defense, Władysław Kosiniak -Kamysz. The project is to go to the Sejm before the next sitting.
– Council of Ministers At today's meeting she got acquainted with the project (amendment to the windmill act – ed.); As a rule, she adopted it, but the final formal confirmation will take place in circulation until Friday this week – said Kosiniak -Kamysz.
He declared that the project “will go to the Sejm before the next sitting”. – This is very important to us – he emphasized.
– In the course of this work (on the project), also at the last stage, there were also comments on both the General Prosecutor's Office and other offices (…), which is why the Council of Ministers at today's meeting became acquainted with the project. As a rule, she adopted it directionally, but the final formal confirmation will take place in circulation until Friday this week – said the deputy prime minister.
He added that the ministers will ultimately be able to refer to the proposed changes.
Amendment to the Act
In its main part, the draft amendment to the Act on investments in the field of wind farms and some other acts provides for the abolition of the 10h principle introduced in 2016, i.e. a ban on the construction of windmills at a distance of less than 10 times their height along with the rotor from residential buildings. The current wording of the provisions allows some conditions to reduce this distance to 700 meters.
The designed regulations are to determine a minimum distance of 500 meters.
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