Regional airports likely to receive financial grants to meet Schengen standards

The support was initially to be solely provided to Warsaw, Gdańsk, and Kraków. "The list was expanded to cover Katowice, Wrocław, Poznań and Szczecin. This is not the official and final decision. Now each of the newly listed airports will be visited by a special commission which will verify data submitted to the Interior Ministry," said Marek Mutke, president of Górnośląskie Towarzystwo Lotnicze, which is managing the airport in Katowice. He went on to say that in 2005 his company will need zł.8 million and in the following years zł.42 million. By 2007 domestic airports have to meet the requirement of Schengen, which will involve upgrading their infrastructure and thus require major investments. (Puls Biznesu, pp. 1, 3) M.M.