Another presidential veto. Karol Nawrocki blocks the act on oil and gas supply and plant protection products

President Karol Nawrocki vetoed the amendment to the Act on oil and gas supply – the president's office informed. Amendment, among others It was to remove from the Polish law a provision, recognized by the European Commission as inconsistent with European regulations regarding gas supply security.

The vetoed act introduced the obligation to obtain the consent of the relevant minister for storing mandatory gas reserves abroad – in EU, EEA and EFTA countries. She was also to change the technical conditions of storage abroad to such that they allow them to send all stocks to the country within 50, not 40 days as before.

The amendment deleted from the Act the need to reserve the transmission capacity on the interconnector in the event of maintaining gas reserves abroad. The current provision provides that those who store gas abroad use transmission capabilities reserved for the purposes of providing total amounts of mandatory stocks only for the needs of sending them to the country in the event of a crisis and this bandwidth cannot be used in another way.

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According to the opinion of the European Commission, the current provisions governing the mandatory supply system of natural gas in terms of requirements imposed on importers and traders storing natural gas outside Poland are incompatible with the Regulation of PE and Council (EU) 2017/1938 – the so -called SOS regulation on gas supply safety.

In the justification of the veto, it was written that both extending the date of sending stocks to 50 days and the introduction of the minister's consent, and the abolition of the obligation to maintain bandwidth on the interconitor are insufficient to ensure energy security. In addition, as indicated, the provisions contained in the Act regarding the possibility of storing gas abroad, if they look “pro -tender” in a short term, they are long discouraged from domestic investments, such as gas magazines or the second floating FSRU terminal – he states in the justification.

The Act was also to change the provisions on maintaining mandatory oil and fuel reserves. According to current regulations, fuel and oil reserves are enough for 90 days of average daily production or import, with some of them maintaining as the so -called Agency stocks of the Government Strategic Reserve Agency, and the rest of importers or producers in a certain proportion. Importers and producers must currently maintain wrestling for 53 days of medium production or import. The Act assumed that an increasing part of this obligation would be taken over by RARS, and the level of importers' obligation would fall: up to 50 days from the entry into force of the Act, to 47 days from June 30, 2026, and to 45 days from June 30, 2027 (PAP)

Presidential “No”, also for the Act on plant protection products

The president vetoed the amendment to the Act on plant protection products – the president's office informed on Wednesday. The amendment introduced the obligation for farmers to keep electronic documentation for the use of these preparations.

In the justification to the veto, the president indicated, among others, that the introduction of the obligation to keep documentation only in electronic form violates the principle of proportionality, equality before the law and the obligation to protect consumers, constituting an unjustified solution in the light of constitutional standards and EU law.

The amendment introduced, among others The provision on electronic documentation of used plant protection products. It is to have an electronic format suitable for machine reading by farmers. They will have to include in it: the name of the plant protection center with the number of permission to marketing it; place of use of this measure; A type of cultivation that was sprayed using EPPO codes (European and Mediterranean Organization of Plant Protection and phenological phases according to the BBCH scale). (PAP)

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