100 days of paperwork

The Ministry of Transport and Construction has presented a list of the achievements it reached in the first 100 days of the new government's term.

"The 100 days for the Minister of Transport and Construction was mainly a time of ordering the law and creating programs of complex solutions in such areas of the government administration as construction, spatial and residential economics, nautical economics, connection and transport," said the Minister of Transport and Construction, Jerzy Polaczek. "The success we are going to achieve in these areas will be the success of Poland," he added.

The government boasted of great progress in its programs for boosting housing construction. On February 7, the government accepted a bill on the support for families willing to purchase a flat of their own. This bill is one of the key points in the Law and Justice program called 'A Family on Its Own'. Piotr Styczeń, a Secretary of State in the Ministry of Transport and Construction, was quoted as saying that the bill would come into force in June or July. Apart from that, work has begun on an amendment to the spatial development bill, and a construction code is being created.

As far as roads are concerned, a program of road and highway construction to 2013 has been created, and a plan is being prepared on financing roads in 2006-2013. In the field of telecommunications, a regulation strategy of the market for the years 2006-2007 has been worked out. The future of the Polish rail system is set out in a strategy of railway transport development to 2009. The Ministry also has a plan to launch Fiscal Capital Group PKP, which will be an independent manager of the national railway network.