The parliamentary majority completes the liquidation of the CBA. PiS predicts the president's veto

October 1 this year The Central Anticorruption Bureau is to cease to exist, according to the new version of the bill adopted on Tuesday by the Parliamentary Committee on Administration and Internal Affairs. The competences of the CBA are to be taken over by the police, ABW and KAS, and anti-corruption protection will be handled by the police, ABW and SKW.

The Administration and Internal Affairs Committee did not raise any objections to the 199-article version of the Act on the coordination of anti-corruption activities and the liquidation of the Central Anti-Corruption Bureau. Earlier, during the work of the subcommittee, the provisions of the original government project were clarified.

Dispersion or coordination? New division of competences

Apart from the date of liquidation of the Bureau, the essence of the proposal has not changed – the staff and competences of the CBA are to be taken over by a new police unit – the Central Bureau for Combating Corruption, a strengthened Internal Security Agency, and in the field of verification of asset declarations, the National Tax Administration.

On Tuesday, the chairman of the subcommittee, Mateusz Bochenek (KO), in addition to the text developed therein, presented the committee with seven legislative and clarifying amendments, which the MPs adopted without objection, just like the entire project. The Legislative Office also asked MPs to clarify several wordings.

Opposition boycott and threat of veto

At the beginning of the meeting, Władysław Dajczak (PiS) recalled that the MPs of his party did not participate in the work of the subcommittee and declared that they would not work on the bill that would liquidate the CBA and, in their opinion, disperse rather than coordinate anti-corruption activities. According to him, the project is a legal mess and the act lacks any logical or structural coherence.

“It is a harmful act because it harms Poland's security, it liquidates the service, which is a coordinated service that deals with a very important area of ​​security in the dimension of corruption activities,” he said.

This is legal rubbish, therefore we are not working on this act, he added.

According to Piotr Kaleta (PiS), the project is controversial and will not pass the legislative process and will not enter into force because the presidential veto is obvious. “This bill simply needs to be thrown into the trash,” he said.

Anti-corruption shield for key investments

The chairwoman of the committee, Maria Małgorzata Janyska (KO), reminded PiS MPs that she had already started work on the text of the project, and general comments had been presented at previous stages of work. The project was also extensively justified in the first reading and at the subcommittee meeting and supported by the Sejm majority, she noted, returning to work on subsequent chapters.

Currently, the draft act on the coordination of anti-corruption activities and the liquidation of the Central Anti-Corruption Bureau assumes that it will enter into force on October 1, but some of the articles regarding the preparation of the liquidation of the office will enter into force on July 1.

In connection with the liquidation of the CBA, the project amends 150 acts that include references to its functioning. The subcommittee added changes to the latest Act on collective labor agreements and collective agreements, adopted in November 2025.

The government bill was submitted to the Sejm on October 24, 2025. In November, MPs discussed it during the first reading at the Sejm session. The Marshal sent the text to the Administration and Internal Affairs Committee with a recommendation to seek the opinion of the Secret Services Committee. The committee issued its opinion at the beginning of December. The subcommittee worked on the project from its establishment on January 8 to February 9.

The project also sets out the principles of anti-corruption protection, which may cover “projects characterized by an increased risk of corruption or activities detrimental to the economic interests of the state.”

According to the regulations, the Prime Minister is responsible for its coordination – through the minister coordinator of special services – and makes the anti-corruption protection services: the Police, the Internal Security Agency and the Military Counterintelligence Service directly responsible for the implementation of the tasks.

Their supervision is to cover activities related to the development or approval of draft normative acts or procedures regulating the spending of public funds or changes in the ownership structure. Anti-corruption protection services are also to supervise the procedures for granting permits, licenses and public orders to government administration bodies, units subordinated to and supervised by them, and state legal entities.

Supervision will also cover external entities implementing government projects. The list of such projects covered by anti-corruption protection kept by the Prime Minister and information about such protection do not constitute public information – the project assumes.

The fate of the officers. Where will the 1,260 jobs go?

According to the information included in the justification for the government project, the CBA employs approximately 1,260 officers and 200 civilian employees. After the regulations come into force, 935 officer positions and all Bureau employees will be transferred to the police. Approximately 300 officers and civilian employees from other police units are also to be transferred to the new Central Bureau for Combating Corruption. 180 officer positions will go to ABW, and 145 to KAS. Some people will take advantage of the pension rights acquired in the CBA, the project authors assumed.

The parties forming the current government included the liquidation of the CBA in the coalition agreement. (PAP)

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