Agriculture Restructurisation
and Modernisation Agency

On September 21 and 22, 2022, Toruń hosted the 21st Conference of Paying Agencies of the Baltic States and Poland, organized by the Agency for Restructuring and Modernisation of Agriculture. The event was attended by representatives of Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia and Serbia - for which ARMA (as a leader) is running a twinning project. The Polish delegation was led by President Halina Szymańska. The first day of the conference was attended by the Secretary of State in the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development, Ryszard Bartosik, and the second - by Janusz Wojciechowski, the European Commissioner for Agriculture.

On July 11, 2022, the conference inaugurating the implementation of the twinning project for Serbia began in Belgrade. The meeting is attended by representatives of the international consortium led by the Agency for Restructuring and Modernization of Agriculture. Apart from experts from Poland, it also includes specialists from Lithuania and France.

On May 24, 2022, two-day talks of experts from the Lithuanian Paying Agency NMA and the Agency for Restructuring and Modernisation of Agriculture began in Warsaw. The topics discussed concern, inter alia, the support administration system, the method of supervising the implemented projects, as well as plans for the new programming period of the Common Agricultural Policy for the years 2023-2027.

From 11 to 13 May 2022, the 51st Conference of Directors of the European Union Paying Agencies is held in Paris under the French Presidency of the Council of the EU.

The Agency for Restructuring and Modernisation of Agriculture together with partners from Italy and Lithuania implemented a twinning project for Azerbaijan. On April 27, a two-day conference began in Baku, summing up the effects of this two-and-a-half-year cooperation.

ARMA, together with the Lithuanians and the French, signed a consortium agreement which will implement the Twinning project in Serbia

At the US Embassy in Warsaw on March 8, 2022, the nomination for the International Women of Courage Award was presented. This year, Marina Hulia, a Ukrainian-born teacher and social activist who has been living and working in Poland for 28 years, has been selected to receive this award. The nomination was presented by the US Ambassador to Poland, Mark Brzezinski, who invited 100 women to the ceremony, including Halina Szymańska, President of the Agency for Restructuring and Modernisation of Agriculture.

On 26 January 2022, Mr. Krzysztof Ciecióra, Undersecretary of State, met with a delegation of the Republic of Serbia, specifically representing the Parliamentary Group for Friendship with Poland of the Skupshtina Assembly, headed by Mr. Veroljub Arsić. The meeting was attended by experts of the MARD, the Agency for Restructuring and Modernisation of Agriculture and the General Veterinary Inspectorate.

The Agency for Restructuring and Modernisation of Agriculture, as a project leader in a consortium with agricultural institutions from Lithuania and France, won the competition in the EU twinning competition for Serbia. The competitor was a consortium of paying agencies from Austria, Italy and Hungary.