The costs are rising, the ministry pays extra? The subsidy for part of the mine was increased
Increasing the limits of expenditure from the state budget allocated for budget subsidies for the Bochnia Salt Mine, the Mine Restructuring Company, the Machów sulfur mine in liquidation and the Industrial Development Agency – assumes the draft amendment to the Act prepared by the Ministry of Industry.
On Wednesday, the draft amendment to the Act on subsidies intended for certain entities was announced on Wednesday in the list of legislative and program works of the Council of Ministers. As explained, the reason is an increase in costs from 2020, in which the previous amendment to the Act was proceeded.
The description of the project's goals reminded that the Act of 30 August 2013 on a subsidy intended for certain entities specifies the purpose and scope of use and the method of granting subsidies for the Bochnia Salt Mine, the Wieliczka Salt Mine, the Mine Restructuring Company, the Coal Mining Museum in Zabrze and the Machów Sulfur Mine in liquidation. Monitoring of the correct use of the subsidy is carried out by the ARP.
Pursuant to the Act, subsidies for entities covered by the Act may be transferred by the end of 2027, and the maximum expenditure limits from the state budget to subsidies are specified in the amendment to the Act of November 27, 2020.
“The described amendment to the Act was proceeded in 2020, when the costs of electricity and electricity in relation to 2025 were much lower. Many macroeconomic factors were influenced by the increase in prices, in particular the Covid -19 epidemic and the explosion in February 2022 of the full -law war in Ukraine,” it was written in the description.
“The effect of these events was the increase in inflation, which in 2022 was 14.4 percent, and as a consequence also an increase in wages. In the analyzed period there was also a significant increase in the minimum wage, which from 2020 changed from PLN 2.6 thousand (from January 2020) to the level of PLN 4.666 thousand (from January 2025)” – the indicated.
Therefore, the Bochnia Salt Mine, the Mine Restructuring Company, Machów Sulfur Mine in Liquidation and ARP in correspondence reported to the Ministry of Industry increased demand for budget funds in 2025-27. The Mining Museum in Zabrze and the Wieliczka mine did not report such a demand.
The Mine in Bochnia pointed out that the means specified in the “complete liquidation program of the mining plant Siedlec-Moszczenica, a non-entity part of the Bochnia mining plant and maintaining, securing and saving the historic parts of the Bochnia mining plant, which is part of the Bochnia Salt Mine for 2021-2027” are insufficient for the implementation of the full range of the program, especially for the liquidation of post -mining.
The reason for the increased demand for budgetary funds is to be a significant increase in the prices of electricity, materials and services, as well as an increase in salaries – indicated the mine in Bochnia.
The Machów Mine argued that increasing the subsidy is needed there in connection with the increase in energy prices and the need to develop documentation for further concepts to secure the excavation of the former sulfur of Siarka Piaseczno, which results from the failure of the Sandomierz staroste of the technical and biological remediation of the land of the local excavation for completed.
SRK justified the increase in demand for subsidies at a higher cost of implementing the task “Changing the dehydration system from stationary to deep in 2025-26” and the need to rebuild the mine water treatment station in 2027 in the Bolko pumping station in Czeladz, where the dehydration stationary system currently operates, on the deep system.
The increased demand for budget funds submitted by the ARP is to result from the increase in salaries.
In connection with these conclusions, the Ministry of Industry proposed a change in the content of the amendment from 2020, “that the limit of expenditure from the state budget allocated for the implementation of tasks and the implementation of activities arising from the Act would allow their effective implementation.”
According to the amendment from 2020, PLN 550 million in seven years was provided for securing works in the Wieliczka Salt Mine, over PLN 173.2 million, and for the liquidated Machów sulfur mine, where it is necessary to secure the areas in the neighborhood of the water reservoir – a total of PLN 35 million, for the liquidated Mine Mine mine – for the liquidated Mine Sulfur Mine.
On the basis of the current amendment to the Coal Mining Museum in Zabrze, which includes The historic Guido Mine and the Queen Louise, unique on a European scale, in the years 2021-27 will receive a total of PLN 131.4 million of subsidies, and the Mine Restructuring Company (SRK) PLN 107.5 million – mainly for the activities of the central Bolko pumping station in Bytom.
The total amount of 2 million in seven years is given to the Katowice branch of the ARP, monitoring the situation in mining, the coal market and the progress of the restructuring of the coal sector. (PAP)
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