Agriculture Minister Kalinowski wants to appoint a new president of ARR

Yesterday Agriculture Minister Jaros3aw Kalinowski applied to Prime Minister Leszek Miller for the removal of Jan Sobiecki as president of the Agri cultural Market Agency (ARR). The reasons given by Kalinowski at a press conference were that Sobiecki does not execute orders and that the agency does not co-operate sufficiently with the Ministry. However, the real reason was probably the results of the last bid for subsidies for the export of milk powder. One of the conditions of the bid was that the competitors were Polish companies, while some of the winning firms have foreign investors. In addition, after the bid too few companies could benefit from the subsidies. Kalinowski considers that the ARR president made decisions concerning the bid too hastily, which provoked protests from the rejected companies. (Rzeczpospolita, pp. A1, B1) A.D.