1. Water projects under The Cohesion Fund.
The National Fund
for Environmental
Protection and Water
Management
Water projects under The Cohesion Fund.
The Polish example
Kazimierz Kujda
President of The
Management Board

2. The National Fund for Environmental Protection and Water Management has been already existing for 18 years. 2

3. Basic numbers after 18 years of activity (1989 - 2006)
Number of realized contracts
Value of paid out grants ,6 bln €
Value of disbursed loans ,1 bln €
Total value of completed project ,2 bln € 3

4. Beneficiaries Municipalities Public and private companies
Institutions and offices
Higher education schools and colleges
Nursing homes
Non-government organizations (foundations, associations)
State administration
Natural persons
The legal status enables concluding civil contracts 4

5. Financing the environment protection by NFEP&WM
By types
By fields
Loans
Water management and waste water treatment
Credits granted by banks from the National Fund’s resources
Air protection
Consortium credits
Waste management
Credits lines
Protection of nature and landscape
Investment subsidies
Forestry
Non-investment subsidies
State monitoring of environment
Credit refunds
Preventing natural disasters
Redemptions
Mining and geology
Equity investments
Ecologic education
Expertise and research 5

6. Financing pro-ecologic projects from foreign resources
The Cohesion Fund from the perspective of the years
ERDF which is a structural fund for the period
EEA (European Economic Area) Financial Mechanism and Norwegian Financial Mechanism
Priority of the Operational Programme “Infrastucture and Environment” from the period of 6

7. Financing environment protection from the National Fund resources and from the EU funds in the years (mln €)
EU funds
NF resources 7

8. The ISPA Fund and The Cohesion Fund 2004 - 20068

9. Projects realized at present, co-financed by the Cohesion Fund
including projects for the
largest Polish cities
improving the quality of
environment for the whole
country.
water management
and waste water treatment
79 projects
waste management
8 projects
air protection
1 project 9

10. Eligible costs, national input and the EU grant (mln €)
Group of projects
Eligible costs
National resources
EU grant
EU subsidy
(%)
Signed MF/decisions
715
274
441 62 10
588
242
346 59
348
122
225 65 12
336
117
219 11
1 005
316
689 69 22
1 221
341
879 72 21 54 18 36 67 2 20 5 15 75
4 287
1 435
2 850 90
2000
2001
2002
2003
2004
2005
2006
Technical assistance
TOTAL 10

11. Number of planned and concluded contracts (by group of projects)
Number of planned contracts
Number of concluded contracts
total
for works
for services
115 70 45
107 63 44
131 76 55
110 62 48 90 43 47 46 88 50 38 71 40 31
215
141 74
178
106 72
255
162 93
161 87 14 6 8 9 2 7 97
1005
548
457
823
406
417
2000
2001
2002
2003
2004
2005
2006
Technical assistance
TOTAL 11

12. Number of contracts concluded in the years 2001-2007 (cumulatively)
* as of October 2007
823
524
301
204 94 39 10
2001
2002
2003
2004
2005
2006
2007
services 9 32 64
123
187
306
417
works 1 7 30 81
114
218
406 12

13. Number of contracts concluded in the years 2006 and 2007
for works
for services and deliveries
total
2006
2007 5 16 6 23 11 39 3 9 13 8 17 7 10 14 4 12 21 35 19 15 25 28 42 26 33 22 31 24 44 79
188 93
111
172
299
January
February
March
April
May
June
July
August
September
October
TOTAL 13

14. Value of contracts (mln €) concluded in the years 2001-2007 (cumulatively)
3 409,3
* as of October 2007
1 863,7
1 119,9
827,7
260,1
41,6
1,7
2001
2002
2003
2004
2005
2006
2007
services
0,8
11,5
39,9
74,8
99,9
154,2
188,4
works
0,9
30,1
220,2
752,9
1 020,0
1 709,5
3 221,0

15. Value of contracts (mln €) concluded in the years 2006 and 2007
for works
for services and deliveries
total
2006
2007
18,4
112,9
5,4
9,8
23,8
122,7
20,9
44,8
4,6
1,7
25,5
46,5
71,4
83,1
3,3
3,4
74,7
86,5
50,0
88,3
0,9
2,4
50,9
90,7
39,7
132,9
2,9
42,6
136,2
37,0
172,9
7,9
0,7
44,9
173,6
56,1
132,3
2,1
1,3
58,2
133,6
124,3
312,1
3,9
2,8
128,2
314,9
70,7
220,3
6,6
4,1
77,3
224,4
60,3
211,9
7,6
4,7
67,9
216,6
548,8
1 511,5
45,2
34,2
594,0
1 545,7
January
February
March
April
May
June
July
August
September
October
TOTAL 15

16. Funds disbursed by the Final Beneficiaries within the CF (mln €) in the years (cumulatively)
* as of October 2007
2001
2002
2003
2004
2005
2006
2007
0,6
6,4
36,1
144,2
334,4
636,8
1 080,6 16

17. Contribution of the Cohesion Fund (mln €) in the years 2001-2007 (cumulatively)
* as of October 2007
2001
2002
2003
2004
2005
2006
2007
0,0
18,5
113,3
196,2
287,0
434,7
806,2 17

18. Contribution of the Cohesion Fund (mln €) in the years 2006 and 2007
month
value
2006
2007
january
10,1
20,4
february
10,3
41,6
march
15,8
20,2
april
5,6
34,0
may
6,0
27,9
june
10,4
19,1
july
11,6
51,7
august
9,4
65,6
september
23,4
37,4
october
1,4
53,6
Total
104,0
371,5 18

19. Assessment of the Cohesion Fund absorption
Eligible expenditures bln € Until the end of October 2007 around bln € was disbursed (around 25%) From EC to NBP around bln € was transferred (28 %) 19

20. The number and value of concluded contracts
Number of concluded contracts Including contracts for works Contracts finished Contracts in progress Contracts in progress for works The total value of concluded contracts bln € During next 3 months almost all contracts will be concluded 20

21. The projects preparations for the new financial perspective 2007-201321

22. The Infrastructure and Environment Operational Program
Priority I: Waste Water Treatment Priority II: Waste management Priority III: Water resources management and flood control Priority IV: Public and private companies compliance with environmental directives Priority V: Nature protection ecological education Priority IX: Environmentally friendly energy infrastructure 22

23. Preparing of the projects for the new perspective
343 projects have been identified in I&EOP projects belong to waste water treatment projects belong to waste management Total investment cost 10 bln € Projects of the investment cost over 25 mln € are prepared by National Fund Projects with the cost lower than 25 mln € are prepared by regional funds 23

24. Projects under preparation in The National Fund
Waste water treatment Number of projects Total investment cost - 5,7 bln €
Waste management Number of projects Total investment cost – 1,4 bln € 24

25. Progress of projects preparation
10 projects have been implemented without financing decision Next 10 projects are ready to apply for the financing decisions The remaining projects are being prepared 25

26. Summary
There are many ecological projects in Poland The main objective of these projects is fulfill requirements described in the Treaty of Accession There is a huge market for engineering services, new technologies and constriction works 26

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