Measures to improve the air quality in Poland
Kinga Majewska
Deputy Director
Department of Air Protection and Climate
Ministry of the Environment Republic of Poland
Warsaw, 30 May 2017
National Air Protection Programme
Act of 27 April 2001 – Environmental Law
(Journal of Laws of 2017 item 5419, as amended)
Article 91c. 1: „In case where the exceedance of acceptable or target levels of substances
in the air takes place in a large area of the country, and the measures taken by the
local government authorities do not result in reducing emissions of pollutants into the
air, the minister of the environment may develop a national air protection
programme, which is a strategy paper designating the objectives and lines of actions
to be included into air protection programmes.
2. The Minister of the environment, in case of developing the national air protection
programm, publishes in the Official Journal of the Republic of Poland „Polish Monitor” a
communication about the website where this programme has been placed and about
the date from which it is to be applied”.
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Objective of the National Air Protection Programme
Achieving the maximum reduction in negative effects of
air pollution on human health across the country, and
in particular, eliminating the exceedances of acceptable
and target levels of substances in the air.
The programme for the years 2015-2020, with a
perspective to 2030.
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Enhancing the importance of the issue
of improving the air quality in Poland
Partnership for improving the air quality:
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creating a wide platform for cooperation
and shared responsibility of the competent
ministries for the air quality in Poland,
taking account of the measures and
recommendations of the NAPP when
updating other policies, strategies or
priority programmes,
giving
appropriate
priority
to
the
improvement in the air quality in the
activities of the National Fund for
Environmental Protection and Water
Management and Regional Funds for
Environmental Protection and Water
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Management.
Enhancing the importance of the issue of
improving the air quality in Poland ctd.
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By Ordinance No 123 of the Prime Minister of 18 October 2016, the
Steering Committee for the National Air Protection Programme was
established (M. P. item 994).
• Within the framework of the Steering Committee for NAPP, the
following work teams for: legislative, strategic, financial,
development and technological and technical affairs will be
appointed.
A meeting on establishing the Steering Committee for NAPP was held
on 27 October 2016 at the Ministry of the Environment.
 As the first, the interministerial Team for legislation was appointed.
On 10 January 2017, a meeting of this Team was held, dedicated to
amending the legilsation necessary to achieve the objective of
improving the air quality and accelerating the proceeding with the
legislation in the individual departments.
 On 16 February 2017, a meeting of the Steering Committee for
NAPP dedicated recommendations of prioritization of the funds of
the National Fund for Environmental Protection and Water
Management.
 On 2 March 2017, a meeting interministerial Team for legislation on
establishing control authority for chimney services in the verification
of the state of individual combustion in households.
 On 20 April 2017 , a meeting of interministerial Team for
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legislation about air quality in health resorts.
Creating a legal framework to support the
implementation of effective corrective measures
Introducing amendments to the applicable legislation,
inter alia, through:
• amending the Act - Environmental Law, including, first of all, by
introducing:
 the possibility of determining, in a given area, acceptable
types and quality of fuels – clarification of Article 96,
 the possibility of carrying out the compensation of
emissions through a reduction in low emission,
seasonal energy efficiency and acceptable emissions of substances
from fuel combustion installations with a heat capacity of up to 0.5 MW
– commencement of the work by the Ministry of Development, in
cooperation with the Ministry of the Environment - Notification by
the European Commission.
• amendment to the Act on the system for monitoring and
controlling the fuel quality and certain other acts
 amendment to the draft regulation of the Minister of Energy on
the quality requirements for solid fuels.
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Development and dissemination of
technologies conducive to improving the
air quality
• reducing energy demand through the implementation
of comprehensive thermal efficiency improvement,
• replacement of high-emission solid fuel boilers,
• quality requirements for solid fuels, used in the
municipal sector,
• standards for boilers <1MW,
• low-carbon Renewable Energy Source (biomass,
geothermic)
• low-carbon transport,
• energy efficiency in buildings,
• cooperation with the scientific community.
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Development of mechanisms to control lowcarbon sources conducive to improving the air
quality
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Guidebook entitled „Clean heat in my home fro solid
fuels”.
preparing the harmonised Guidelines on the
methodology of detecting waste combustion in small
heat sources – to be implemented in 2018.
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Additional activities at the national level
amendment to the Act Environmental Law – so-called Anti-Smog Act – (Journal of
Laws of 2015 item 1593) introducing the following changes:
 the possibility of determining, in a given area, acceptable types and quality
of fuels – clarification of Article 96,
 the possibility of carrying out the compensation of emissions through a
reduction in low emission.
Good example of the implementation of this Law:
1) Resolution No. XVIII / 243/16 of 15 January 2016 on the introduction of restrictions
on the operation of fuel combustion installations in the municipality of Krakow;
2) Resolution No. XXXII / 452/17 of the Małopolska Region Parliament of 23 January
2017 on the introduction of restrictions and prohibitions in the Małopolskie voivodship
within the scope of operation of installations where fuel combustion takes place;
3) Resolutions No. V / 36/1/2017 of the Silesian Voivodeship Parliamnet of 7 April
2017 on the introduction of the limitation in the scope of operation of installations
where fuel combustion takes place in the Silesian Voivodeship.
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Development of mechanisms to control lowcarbon sources conducive to improving the
air quality
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Strategy for responsible development - which was adopted
by the Council of Ministers on 14 February 2017.
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Electromobility Development Plan "Energy for the Future„ –
which was adopted by the Council of Ministers on 16 March
2017.
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Recommendations of the Economic Committee of the
Council of Ministers (ECCM) entitled „Clean Air”:
1. Maximum acceleration of the work on the regulation on the
requirements for solid fuel boilers, which should be adopted by the
end of April 2017 at the latest, so that its provisions enter into force
before the start of the heating season 2017/2018 – Ministry of
Development;
2. Urgent introduction of the regulation on the quality standards for
solid fuels, which should be adopted as early as in the first quarter of
2017, after introducing amendments to the Act on the system for
monitoring and controlling the fuel quality – Ministry of Energy
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ECCM recommendations ctd.
3. Prioritize by the end of September 2017 the resources of the National Fund
for Environmental Protection and Water Management on actions leading to
the improvement of air quality as soon as possible in order to achieve the
maximum ecological effect
4. Introduction (still in 2017) of the requirement of gradual connecting
buildings located in urban and suburban areas to heating systems, unless they
have an effective source of heat, in such a way so as to minimise the
associated costs and provide financial support to persons in need of it –
Ministry
of
Infrastructure
and
Construction/Ministry
of
Development/Ministry of Family, Labour and Social Policy;
5. Significant reduction (from the begining 2018) in rates for electricity during
periods of reduced demand for it, including through amendments to the
energy and construction legislation, in order to encourage to install electric
heaters or heat pumps in areas where there is no possibility of connecting to
centralised heating systems or gas networks – Ministry of Energy (leading
ministry)/Ministry of Infrastructure and Construction/Ministry of Finance;
6. Development of a network of measuring stations forming the air monitoring
system, which will enable, in particular, the identification of sources of
pollution – Ministry of the Environment;
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ECCM recommendations ctd.
7. Inclusion of social workers of social assistance centres into information
activities as part of social work in the field of the efficient use of energy in
houses/flats, possibility of acquiring funds for the replacement of boilers,
obtaining energy allowances, funds for co-financing heating of a house/flat as
part of housing allowances – Ministry of Family, Labour and Social Policy
(leading ministry)/Ministry of Energy (including URE), Ministry of
Infrastructure and Construction, Ministry of the Environment;
8. Development and then implementation of a comprehensive public policy
that ensures the optimal protection of vulnerable social groups against „energy
poverty” – Ministry of Energy/Ministry of Family, Labour and Social Policy/
Ministry of Infrastructure and Construction;
9. Carrying out educational campaigns, including those on optimal ways of
making fire in boilers and related health effects – Ministry of the Environment
(leading ministry)/Ministry of Health/Ministry of Energy;
10. Introduction of an obligation to document the quality of exhaust gases by
vehicle control stations and a requirement to examine exhaust gases during
road checks – Ministry of Infrastructure and Construction (leading
ministry)/Ministry of the Interior and Administration;
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ECCM recommendations ctd.
11. Use of tax mechanisms, in order to introduce incentives for low-carbon
transport, including low rates of excise duty for hybrid cars and the exemption
from excise duty for electric cars – Ministry of Finance (leading
ministry)/Ministry of Development;
12. Introduction of solutions allowing to create low-carbon zones and periodic
reduction in the number of cars in motion within the urban areas – Ministry of
the Environment (leading ministry)/Ministry of Infrastructure and the
Construction /Ministry of Energy;
13. Introduction of regulations preventing blocking green wedges of the city
and considering solutions improving the prestige of the profession of urban
planner in the context of spatial management – Ministry of Infrastructure and
Construction/Ministry of the Environment;
14. Establishment, within the National Centre for Research and Development,
a facility dedicated to supporting the development of low-carbon
technologies, in particular geared towards improving the air quality – Ministry
of Science and Higher Education;
15. Development and wide public consultation of the „Clean Air” Programme
and strengthening the Steering Committee for the National Air Protection
Programme and entrusting it with a task to safeguard the urgent and effective
implementation of these recommendations and to regularly monitor the
progress in the work of the Council of Ministers – Ministry of the
Environment;
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THANK YOU FOR YOUR
ATTENTION
Kinga Majewska
Deputy Director
Department of Air Protection and Climate
Ministry of the Environment Republic of Poland
E-mail: [email protected]
Warsaw, 30 May 2017