📋 Tender Overview
The Council of Ministers adopted the draft act on population protection and civil defense, submitted by the Minister of Internal Affairs and Administration.
The government intends to create a population protection system that could be transformed into civil defense. Among other things, a secure state communications system will be created, which will ensure the continuity of the administration and the protection of the population in times of peace and war. The government will spend no less than 0.3 percent of GDP annually on implementing new solutions. The project focuses on the safety of citizens and does not affect the guarantees of civil liberties.
The most important solutions
The project defines the tasks of protecting the population in times of peace and war. The construction of the population protection system will be based on, among others, the following structures:
State Fire Service;
Volunteer Fire Departments;
State Emergency Medical Services;
Emergency Notification System;
crisis management structures;
medical entities;
non-governmental organizations.
The civil protection system will consist of:
public administration bodies;
entities performing population protection tasks;
civil protection resources.
The civil protection bodies will be:
ministers who head government administration departments and the Minister of Internal Affairs and Administration;
voivode;
voivodeship marshal;
mayor;
mayor, mayor or city president.
Civil protection entities will include:
Government Security Centre;
organizational units of the State Fire Service;
Volunteer Fire Departments and other social rescue organizations;
Government Agency for Strategic Reserves;
healthcare entities and selected services, inspections and guards;
economic entities that provide basic social services.
At the central level, the population protection system will be coordinated by the Minister of Interior and Administration, who will be supported by the Government Population Protection Team (RZOL).
RZOL will, among other things, advise the government on matters of population protection and civil defence.
The role of the Government Security Centre will be strengthened and will be a leader at the central level in terms of informing, warning and alerting the population about threats.
In the event of martial law being declared and during war, the population protection system will be transformed into civil defense. Its purpose will be to protect civilians from threats resulting from military operations and their consequences.
Civil protection bodies will become civil defence bodies, and civil protection entities will become civil defence entities.
The Minister of Interior and Administration will become the national civil defense authority – the Head of Civil Defense.
A secure state communications system will be created.
It will ensure the continuity of the administration and the protection of the population in times of peace and war.
Evacuation plans for the population will be created, which will cover the issues of moving people from places at risk and accepting them in a safe place - in times of war and in the event of a natural disaster.
The Government Security Centre will prepare a national evacuation plan, and the governor will develop a provincial population evacuation plan.
Issues concerning collective protection facilities will be regulated. The Minister of Internal Affairs and Administration will issue a regulation on technical conditions for protective structures and their use.
The solution will allow for an inventory of existing facilities and determining the number of structures that could be used as shelters and hiding places.
The government will allocate no less than 0.3 percent of GDP annually for the development of the population protection and civil defense system.
