OLPP puts investments before infrastructure expansion

However, this year the firm will designate zl.100 million on investments while in 2007, the figure could be up to three times higher. To help it finance investments Nafta Polska will increase equity of the operator by zl.50 million. "Corporate decisions will be taken after the approval of an updated strategy [for the oil sector] by the Council of Ministers," said Pawel Kozyra, spokesman of the Treasury Ministry. However, there are problems with the approval of the amended strategy. Amongst other issues, protests by PERN Przyjazn trade unions over governmental plans to exclude fuel pipelines from PERN and transfer them to the OLPP currently stand in the way. Moreover they claim that this would be illegal state aid. (Puls Biznesu, pp. 1, 9) M.M.