Amendments To The RES Act

On 6 March 2018, the Council of Ministers adopted a bill of amendments to the Act of 20 February 2015 on Renewable Energy Sources ("RES Act"), the Act of 20 May 2016 on Investments in Wind Power Plants ("Distance Law") and the Act of 7 July 1994 – the Building Law ("Building Law"). Legislative work on the planned amendment ("Planned Amendment") will now continue in both chambers of the Polish Parliament (Sejm and the Senate). It is of note that the Planned Amendment was profusely modified during legislative work at the government level. The most essential amendments in the Planned Amendment proposed by the Council of Ministers are set out below, as compared with an earlier version of the bill published by the Minister of Energy on 20 February 2018: