NIK slams overpaid incompetent bureaucrats at NFOŚiGW

The largest average salaries in a state company are earned by employees of the National Environmental Protection Fund (NFOŚiGW). If the Fund was run efficiently this could be acceptable, however, the Supreme Chamber of Control (NIK) found that this is not the case. The average salary in the Fund is over three times higher than the national average and amounts to zł.7,200. On top of this, NIK uncovered that in almost every case, the Fund exceeded the maximum 160 day limit it has to analyze and accept applications for investments concerning environmental protection. Moreover, NFOŚiGW has serious delays in implementing the ISPA program, as it spent zł.89 million on these project in 2003 against the anticipated zł.683 million. It has a growing share of free funds at its disposal every year and it would operate more efficiently if it worked more actively with other financial intermediaries. The Fund's spokesman refused to comment on NIK's report, but the Fund has yet to receive an official copy of it. (Parkiet, p. 7) M.M.