“Friday 13 and good news. There is agreement to extend the KPO by the end of 2026. It seemed impossible that it was possible, but it succeeded! This is the result of our negotiations for several months, “said the head of the Ministry of Funds and Regional Policy in social media.
Pełczyńska-Nałęcz added that the implementation of this decision will require the MFIPR “renegotiations with the EC indicators for hundreds of projects”. She estimated that thanks to the consent of the Commission it would be possible to end and finance from KPO “many important investments for Poland”.
Deputy Minister of Funds Jan Szyszko in an interview with PAP pointed out that it was about extending the possibility of finalizing investments and payment by the end of 2026, and as he said – as reported – the ministry of funds and, above all, the institutions responsible for investments, depended the most.
– Now the task before us is to move the indicators to earlier stages of the investment in the negotiations of the next revision. Settle them at an earlier stage of the investment, and finish the investment until the end of December for this money [2026 r.] – said the deputy minister. He added that in practice this means that Poland has four months longer to “take projects”.
When asked if there would also be changes in the case of the loan part, he pointed out that in this case there was no such need, because investments in this part can be implemented until 2030.
– This is something that we have been sought in Brussels for a year and a half and we tried to convince the European Commission. […] This means that local governments, beneficiaries who raced over time to finish investments by August 2026 […] They will have a few months longer […] – said Szyszko on Polish Radio 24 giving as an example local governments, which, for example, buy buses or trams from KPO money.
“It allows you to loosen the belt a little, breathe everyone, buy and deliver new equipment – for residents most often – at a slightly more real time,” he added.
“Hundreds of investments”
Pełczyńska-Nałęcz informed on May 27 that the Commission issued a preliminary consent to extend the settlement of investments from KPO by three months, until November 2026. At that time she argued that more time would save “hundreds of investments”, which due to a two-year KPO blockade would be difficult to settle in the original date.
According to previous assumptions, reforms and investments from the KPO must be completed by August 31, 2026.
At the end of May, the European Commission accepted the revision of the Polish KPO, which primarily assumes the creation of the Security and Defense Fund, strengthening the National Labor Inspectorate, creating a guarantee fund for loans for companies, introducing funding for the exchange of tachographs in trucks and a double increase in the number of insulated schools with co -financing from KPO. Poland is now waiting for the formal approval of this search by the EU Council on June 20 this year.
The National Plan of Reconstruction and Increase Re immorement (KPO), which is to strengthen the Polish economy, consists of 57 investments and 54 reforms. It provides for Poland EUR 59.8 billion, including EUR 25.27 billion in the form of a subsidy and EUR 34.54 billion in the form of preferential loans. Poland has received PLN 67 billion so far. Another approx. PLN 26 billion – as the Minister of Funds informed – should go to Poland in September.
