Today we are launching extensive and important works on the National and Regional Partnership Plan for Poland. We are embarking on investment and reform planning for the 2028-2034 financial perspective. Poland will receive a record amount of EUR 123 billion from the EU budget

- said Katarzyna Pełczyńska-Nałęcz, the Minister of Development Funds and Regional Policy.

For the first time in the history of our presence in the European Union, the budget provided for Poland includes expenditure not only for the existing cohesion policy, but also for the Common Agricultural Policy, the Common Fisheries Policy, the Social Climate Fund, funds relating to asylum, migration, border management and new objectives related to the EU defence and security capabilities.

All these funds, so far separate, are now consolidated in a single Plan - the Minister added.

EF investment directions for 2028-2034

A Team will be set up at the Ministry of Development Funds and Regional Policy to work on the National and Regional Partnership Plan, which will consist of representatives of the government, local authorities and partners from outside the administration. When preparing the Plan, we should first identify some of the most relevant objectives and priorities, under which we will plan a comprehensive, coherent package of investment and reforms.

We would like these reforms to be systemic, fundamental and closely linked to investments. We would like them to originate in Poland and be presented in Brussels as our understanding of the systemic changes that Poland needs. Therefore, the reforms will be based on the Polish Development Strategy for the next 10 years, which is already being finalised in the government

- stressed the head of the MDFRP.

As the analyses and the provisions of the draft Polish Development Strategy up till 2035 show, EU funds can generate the highest value added for all of us in three strategic areas:

• changes in the economic model towards the development of higher value-added sectors and increased capacity for innovation and technology,
• increasing the territorial cohesion of the state through economic transformation, support for the development of economic activity and the balancing of access and quality of basic services and public goods,
• strengthening the resilience and security of Poland and individual territories against various climate, energy and economic shocks and threats, and defence-related activities.

A very important element in the new financial perspective is the distribution of funds between instruments managed centrally by the European Commission and programmes financed from the so-called national envelopes. This ratio is changing radically

- the minister added.

The proposal of the Multiannual Financial Framework for 2028-2034 provides for a more than twofold increase in funds for instruments managed directly by the European Commission. This budget heading is worth almost EUR 600 billion, of which EUR 450 billion will be allocated to the European Competitiveness Fund. For comparison, as Minister Katarzyna Pełczyńska-Nałęcz stressed, slightly over EUR 860 billion is planned for the implementation of the National and Regional Partnership Plans in all EU Member States.

Broad partnership for the development of the NRPP

In the preparation of the National and Regional Partnership Plan, the Ministry of Development Funds and Regional Policy will cooperate with other ministries, central institutions, marshals of voivodeships, civil society organisations, social and economic partners, as well as representatives of the scientific and academic communities.

We have already succeeded in maintaining the subjective role of the regions in the new EU budget. In Poland, the decentralisation of European investments has worked very well. The role of local authorities, marshal offices and marshals of voivodeships has proven very constructive and effective. We would like to maintain this

- Minister Katarzyna Pełczyńska-Nałęcz indicated.