Bill to limit Treasury Minister's power of patronage in state owned co mpanies

Law and Justice (PiS) party deputies have proposed a bill to limit the authority of the Treasury Minister in appointing supervisory and management board members in state-owned companies. The changes propose abolishing the tradition of filling all supervisory boards with political cronies as soon as a new government comes into power. According to the proposal, the T reasury Ministry would appoint only one member of the supervisory board, while another one would be appointed from a special list comprising of academics, lawyers and certified auditors, the third member would be a ppointed by the companies' employees, but not from among themselves. Only larger companies would be allowed to have five supervisory board members. Meanwhile, management boards would be appointed by the supervisory boards, rather than by the Treasury as is now the case. (Gazeta Wyborcza, p. 20) T.J.