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Ministerial Structural Organisational Entities

1. Minister's Political Office 
    
   Head of the Minister's Political Office:
   Wojciech Saryusz-Wolski
   
   Secretariat:
   phone: (+48 22) 57-92-205
   fax: (+48 22) 57-92-347
   e-mail: Gabinet.Polityczny.Ministra@mos.gov.pl

   general responsibilities

   • Initiate the Minister's political and substantive activities,
   • Prepare, conforming to the current Governmental Programme, the political and programme strategy and any other guidance concerning the Minister's activities, as well as to chesck the activities being carried out by particular Ministerial organisational entities in this regard,
   • Analyse political, economic and social developments and processes in the aspect of the Governmental policies with particular regard to the Minister's responsibility profile,
   • Co-operate with political parties, Parliamentary Clubs, governmental and self-governmental administrative authorities, non-governmental organisations, and other Ministers' Political Offices,
   • Provide for planning and arrangements of the relevant consultations and advice, and to draft the opinions concerning the implementation of the Minister's,
   • Analyse and provide advice on the documents to be submitted to the Minister for signature,
   • Create and coordinate the Minister's informative and medial policy,
   • Manage the Minister's Work-Plan,
   • Provide surveillance of correspondence materials being addressed to the Minister,
   • Provide advice on the rightfulness, vis á vis the Governmental political objectives, of the draft proposals for the Minister's visits and meetings, including on the conformity of texts of the draft Ministerial positions and statements, as prepared by the relevant organisational entities.

   Spokesperson - Ms. Magda Sikorska
   Phone: (+48 22) 57 92 722, 695 100 978
   E-mail: rzecznik@mos.gov.pl

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2. Department of Environmental Education
   
   Director:
   Karolina Kulicka
   
   Secretariat:
   phone: (+48 22) 57-92-472
   fax: (+48 22) 57-92-473
   e-mail: Departament.Edukacji.Ekologicznej@mos.gov.pl

   general responsibilities

   • Initiate and implement the educational and promotional campaigns,
   • Initiate and coordinate educational, promotional and informational the events, fairs, and actions to popularise the activities of managed by Minister of the Environment,
   • Manage, in collaboration with Ministerial Departments, the matters which relate to competitions being held under auspices of Minister of the Environment,
   • Prepare, promote and disseminate materials, publications and films relating to the environment for information and popularisation purposes,
   • Coordinate implementation of the National Strategy for Environmental Education,
   • Manage the matters which pertain to implementation of the provisions in the Aarhus Convention on Access to Information, Public Participation in Decision-Making and Access to Justice in Environmental Matters,
   • Manage the Ministerial website addressed to children and the Ministerial Library,
   • Coordinate the Ministerial cooperation with Non-Governmental Environmental Organisations,
   • Implement the tasks for managing on behalf of the Minister the secondary forest schools and exercise pedagogical fostering thereof,
   • Coordinate the activities in the field of the regulated professions for which the Minister is the Competent Authority.

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5. Department of Economy
   
   Director:
   Hanna Pawłowicz 

6. Deputy Director:
   Iwony Jastrzębska
   
   Secretariat:
   phone: (+48 22) 57-92-469
   fax: (+48 22) 57-92-455
   e-mail: Departament.Ekonomiczny@mos.gov.pl

   general responsibilities

   • Implement the Minister's responsibilities as of the Dispatcher of the part of the State Budget, and in particular to:
     • Prepare the draft Plan of Incomes and Expenses of the executive scheme for this part of the State Budget which is in Minister's disposition, and enforce the Principal Dispatcher's Financial Plan,
     • Set up the resources from the State Budget target funds and introduce, where necessary, the amendments in the sectoral entities' Plan of Expenses,
     • Provide for surveillance over financial management of the second and third level dispatchers of the State Budget those are the subordinates to the Minister, and also prepare the sectoral combined budgetary reports and balance sheets, as well as the Principal Dispatcher's Individual Budgetary Reports and Balance Sheets,
     • Manage the matters which relate to laying down the remuneration principles for the employees of the budgetary entities subordinate to and supervised by the Minister,
     • Provide servicing of credit resources originated from the international financial institutions,
   • Participate to implementation of the Infrastructure and Environment Operational Programme in the scope of financing and clearing the priority axes for which the Minister of the Environment is the Intermediate Body,
   • Participate to implementation of the projects which are covered by technical assistance under Infrastructure and Environment Operational Programme - Technical Assistance - in the scope of financing and clearing the assistance provided to the Beneficiaries,
   • Participate to implementation of projects under Financial Mechanism of the European Economic Area and the Norwegian Financial Mechanism, in the scope of financing and clearing the Implementing Body,
   • Supervise the use for economic purposes of the State Treasury resources being under permanent management of the organisational entities subordinate to Minister responsible for the environment,
   • Implement the tasks relating to supervision over the Foundations active in the field of environmental protection and water management,
   • Register the non-budgetary domestic financial flows, except for the domestic resources earmarked for co-funding of the tasks financed with the foreign resources that are under the Minister's governance and/or disposition.

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9. Department of Geology and Geological Concessions
   
   Director:
   -
   
   Deputy Director:
   Rafał Miland
   
   Deputy Director:
   Krzysztof Kowalik

10. Deputy Director:
    Mariola Jakoniak
    
    Secretariat:
    phone: (+48 22) 57-92-447, 449
    fax: (+48 22) 57-92-460
    e-mail: Departament.Geologii.i.Koncesji.Geologicznych@mos.gov.pl

    general responsibilities

    • Set out the priority directions for the Minister's activities in specific branches of geology,
    • Grant concessions for the prospection, exploration and extraction of such strategic fossil mineral resources as natural gas, petroleum, lignite, hard coal, methane from hard coal, metal ores, brines, healing and thermal waters, and also for underground storage of natural gas and petroleum, and underground waste storage - jointly with levying charges, in particular royalties, and exploitation fees, for such activities,
    • Approve draft designs of geological works and geological documentations on fossil mineral resources, as well as geological-engineering and hydro-geological ones,
    • Certify the qualifications relevant to perform, supervise and manage geological works,
    • Collect and process geological data and make it available,
    • Decree the right to use geological information,
    • Provide for management of the prospecting works to survey the national geological structure, including the occurrence of the deposit perspectives, as well as the cartographic, hydro-geological, geological engineering works,
    • Manage the matters which relate to implementation of the International Agreements in the field of geology, including those concerning the International Sea Bed Organisation and the INTEROCEANMETAL Joint Organisation,
    • Manage popularisation and promotion activities in the field of the Polish geology with view of the opportunities for prospecting, exploration and extraction of fossil mineral resources,
    • Exercise both the substantive surveillance over the Polish Geological Institute and the supervision over the State Mining Authority.

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13. Department of Waste Management
    
    Director:
    -
    
    Deputy Director:
    Małgorzata Szymborska
    
    Secretariat:
    phone: (+48 22) 57-92-262
    fax: (+48 22) 57-92-795
    e-mail: Departament.Gospodarki.Odpadami@mos.gov.pl

    general responsibilities

    • Analyse the current status of waste management sector nationally,
    • Prepare strategies, plans and programmes under the Community relevant legal acts and other documents in the field of waste management, including the National Waste Management Plan,
    • Design legal, economic and organisational instruments which provide for implementation of the principles to protect the environment in the scope of waste management,
    • Prepare the relevant draft Act and Regulations to this end,
    • Participate to activities of the European Union bodies in the scope of setting out waste management and preparation of the relevant legal acts in the field of waste management,
    • Collaborate with the Chief Inspector of Environmental Protection in the scope of managing the relevant databases on placing the products on the market and on waste management in the scope of implementation of the Ministers' responsibilities under provisions of the Basel Convention on the Control of Transboundary Movements of Hazardous Waste and Their Disposal,
    • Implement the Ministers' responsibilities under provisions of the Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants,
    • Prepare the relevant draft positions of the Government of the Republic of Poland and represent the Minister in activities pertaining to waste management issues in forum of the Organisation of Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD).

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16. Department of Financial Instruments
    
    Director:
    -
    
    Secretariat:
    phone: (+48 22) 57-92-732
    fax: (+48 22) 57-92-529
    e-mail: Departament.Instrumentow.Finansowych@mos.gov.pl
    

    general responsibilities

    • Implement the Minister's responsibilities as of the Intermediate Body for managing the 2000-2006 Cohesion Fund resources,
    • Collaborate with Department of the Infrastructure and Environment Operational Programme on implementation of both the Minister's responsibilities as of the Intermediate Body for managing the Infrastructure and Environment Operational Programme, and the promotional and information activities in the scope of the 2000-2006 Cohesion Fund,
    • Implement the activities aimed at preparation to and implementation of the Financial Mechanisms of the European Economic Area and the Swiss Financial Instrument and Coordinate the Minister's responsibilities relating to participation in the activities of the Working Group on the Joint Polish-German Environmental Projects,
    • Coordinate the Minister's responsibilities which relate to implementation of the Institutional Programmes,
    • Prepare and update the manuals which set out the procedures and guidelines to be followed by the Applicants in the scope of implementation of particular projects under particular financial instruments being serviced by the Department,
    • Provide substantive servicing of the IT Financial Monitoring and Control System (Polish acronym SIMIK) for the Structural Funds and the Cohesion Fund in the scope of the Departmental responsibilities,
    • Cooperate with competent entities on implementation of the tasks pertaining to the current budget of the European Union in the field of the environment,
    • Manage the matters in the scope of Minister's surveillance over the National Fund for Environmental Protection and Water Management, except for considering the legality of Resolutions adopted by the Fund's Supervisory Board and the matters which relate to granting of the Minister's consents for acquisition, purchase or sales of the company shares or stocks, or for acquisition, purchase or sales of the bonds by the National Fund for Environmental Protection and Water Management and its respective Voivodship Funds those are issued by entitles other than the State Treasury,
    • Provide comments on the draft legal acts, plans, assumptions, programmes, reports, study papers and any other documents which pertain to the use of the EU funds in environmental sector,
    • Represent the Minister on meetings, committees, working groups and conferences aimed at consumption of the UE resources dedicated to environmental investments in the scope of Departmental responsibilities.

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19. Department of Environmental Instruments
    
    Director:
    -
    
    Secretariat:
    phone: (+48 22) 57-92-327
    fax: (+48 22) 57-92-217, 463
    e-mail: Departament.Instrumentow.Srodowiskowych@mos.gov.pl

    general responsibilities

    • Conduct administrative procedures which relate to proceedings in the scope of the integrated permits in the field of the air protection, the protection of the environment against waste, noise and electromagnetic fields, and the access to environmental information,
    • Provide supervision over the integrated permitting system, particularly by means of collection and dissemination of information on the Best Available Techniques (BAT) for the purpose of both the administrative authorities competent to grant the permits and the business entities concerned,
    • Coordinate the matters in the scope of the National System of the Eco-Management and Auditing Scheme (EMAS), sustainable development, the national environmental policy and any other Minister's responsibilities in the field of water management,
    • Manage the matters in the field of the protection against noise and electromagnetic fields.

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21. Department of Forestry
    
    Director:
    Krzysztof Janeczko 
    
    Deputy Director:
    Edward Lenart
    
    Secretariat:
    phone: (+48 22) 57-92-550
    fax: (+48 22) 57-92-290
    e-mail: Departament.Lesnictwa@mos.gov.pl

    general responsibilities

    • Analyse and assess the performance efficiency of the legal solutions adopted in the field of forestry, forest management, forest land conservation, and preservation of forest reproductive material, and hunting, and prepare the relevant draft legal acts in this field,
    • Monitor the status of forest resources and the hazards emerging to forest sustainability, and initiate activities pertaining to preservation and development of sustainable and multi-functional forest management by means of supporting projects in the field of forest protection, conservation of forest biological diversity, forest tourism management, and forest education,
    • Implement and update the National Programme of Woodiness Expansion, and cooperate with Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development in the scope of improvement in forests other than the State-owned ones,
    • Participate to the international initiatives relating to protection of forest and biological diversity in forests,
    • Participate to activities of the Main Coordination Committee of the Ministerial Conference on the Protection of Forest in Europe (MCPFE),
    • Cooperate with the European Forestry Institute on implementation of the principles for sustainable forest management,
    • Conduct administrative proceedings in the scope of forestry, hunting and protection of forest land,
    • Manage matters in the field of the Minister's surveillance over the "State Forests" National Holding, Forest Research Institute, Forest Seed Production Bureau and the Polish Hunting Association.

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24. Department of Nature Conservation
    
    Director:
    Agnieszka Dalbiak 
    
    Sekretariat:
    phone: (+48 22) 57-92-366
    fax: (+48 22) 57-92-730
    e-mail: Departament.Ochrony.Przyrody@mos.gov.pl

    general responsibilities

    • Initiate and coordinate activities in the scope of the principal functions of the national parks (nature conservation, and activities in the field of scientific and research, education and promotion, and tourism) and implement the tasks in the scope of the Minister's surveillance over the national parks and the Natura 2000 sites which are entirely or in part thereof situated in the area of a national park,
    • implement the tasks which relate to the protection and sustainable acquisition of wild fauna and flora through implementation of the provision in the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES),
    • Cooperate with the authorities dealing with enforcement of the provisions in the CITES (Police and Customs Services),
    • Perform the role of the national focal point and Biological Diversity Clearing House Mechanism (CHM) for the Convention on Biological Diversity, and for the Convention on the Protection and Sustainable Development of the Carpathians, and the Bonn Convention on the Conservation of Migratory Species (CMS) of Wild Animals, and the relevant Agreements concluded to date under the auspices of CMS,
    • Implement the sectoral policy concerning modified organisms; manage the administrative procedures aimed at granting consents and permits for handling of modified organisms,
    • Coordinate the inspection and monitor the activities in the scope of genetically modified organisms, and collect and exchange information on the human and environmental safety in this regard,
    • Provide for technical and office servicing of the National Council for Nature Conservation and the cooperation between the Council's Presidium and Members thereof, and perform the intermediation function for the activities aimed at elaboration on the statements and advice to be provided by the Council for the purpose of environmental sector.

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27. Department of Law
    
    Director:
    Izabela Wereśniak-Masri

28. Deputy Director:
    Dominik Gajewski
    
    
    Secretariat:
    phone: (+48 22) 57-92-486
    fax: (+48 22) 57-92-288
    e-mail: departament.prawny@mos.gov.pl

29. general responsibilities

    • Provide advice on the draft proposals for legislative acts with regard to their legality and correctness in terms of their legal language and legislation technique,
    • Coordinate the legal advisory process in relation to the legal acts being delivered in the framework of the inter-sectoral harmonisation;
    • Implement and coordinate the matters which relate to Poland's membership in European Union, as regards notification of legislative documents thereto,
    • Exercise the formal and legal control of contracts under civil law being prepared at the Ministry,
    • Manage control of the legality of resolutions adopted by the Supervisory Board of the National Fund for Environmental Protection and Water Management, and of the local legal acts made by the Voivodes and Directors of the Regional Boards for Water Management,
    • Manage the cases in the scope of privatisation of sawmills,
    • Provide legal advice in the framework of legal services being rendered to Minister of the Environment and the Ministerial organisational entities.,

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32. Department of the "Infrastructure and Environment Operational Programme"
    
    Director:
    Aleksandra Malarz
    
    Deputy Director:
    Joanna Książek
    
    

33. Secretariat:
    phone: (+48 22) 57-92-823
    fax: (+48 22) 57-92-629
    e-mail: Departament.Programu.Operacyjnego.Infrastruktura.i.Srodowisko@mos.gov.pl

    general responsibilities

    • Provide advice on the draft proposals for legislative acts with regard to their legality and correctness in terms of their legal language and legislation technique,
    • Implement the activities of Minister of the Environment as of the Intermediate Body for management of the Priority Axes (1-5) of the "Infrastructure and Environment" Operational Programme, including:
      • monitoring of preparation and selection of projects for their co-financing, and concluding the co-financing contracts with Beneficiaries,
      • verification of the Beneficiaries' and the Implementing Bodies' applications for payments, effecting the payments, and recovering the undue amounts paid,
      • monitoring of project implementation, including the effects and the post-implementation impacts thereof, reporting in relation to the priorities implemented and the assessment thereof, collecting financial and statistical information and controlling the Implementing Bodies,
    • Keep potential Beneficiaries informed on the principles for application to acquire the Community resources, promote the "Infrastructure and Environment" Operational Programme, and provide the relevant information to the media, the opinion-pronouncing circles and the general public on the effects resulting from the protection of the environment in Poland with application of the Community resources,
    • Implement the tasks which relate to coordination of the Minister's participation to the implementation process of the LIFE+ Instrument in the context of delimitation of the demarcation line against the Programme's 5th Priority Axis,
    • Implement the Minister's responsibilities as of the Intermediate Body for management of the "Growth of the Enterprises Competitiveness" Sectoral Operational Programme.

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36. Department of International Cooperation
    
    Director:
    Katarzyna Reiter

37. Deputy Director:
    Gabriela Szuba

38. Deputy Director:
    Kamil Zawadzki
    
    Secretariat:
    phone: (+48 22) 57-92-255
    fax: (+48 22) 57-92-263
    e-mail: Departament.Wspolpracy.Z.Zagranica@mos.gov.pl

    general responsibilities

    • Develop the priorities for international cooperation and initiate new directions for and the forms of the international cooperation with regard to potential economic and political benefits, including coordination of negotiations in the international fora,
    • Coordinate, in collaboration with respective Departments, the implementation of the commitments under:
      • multilateral international agreements (Conventions, Protocols) which Poland is the party to and those fall in the responsibility scope of Minister of the Environment,
      • bilateral international agreements and memoranda of understanding concluded,and perform periodical review of their effectiveness,
    • Provide the office and organisational services to the Minister, Secretary of State, Under-Secretaries of State, and Director General of the Ministry, as well as other Ministerial officials in relation to both their visits abroad, and hosting foreigners visiting the Ministry,
    • Coordinate the matters which relate to policies of the European Union, including participation by the Minister to the European Union decision making processes,
    • Coordinate implementation of the tasks which relate to both the transposition of the Community legal acts into the Polish legal framework, and the enforcement of the Community laws, including the relevant commitment to report to the European Commission to this end,
    • Implement the tasks which relate to the cases of suspicion of breaches of the Community laws, as lodged by the European Commission,
    • Manage the coordination point of the European environmental policies under Electronic Document Exchange System (EDES),
    • Coordinate preparation of the Minister's participation to debates to be held by the European Committee of the Polish Council of Ministers.

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41. Department of Climate Change and Atmosphere Protection
    
    Director:
    -
    
    Deputy Director:
    Dorota Zawadzka-Stępniak
     
    Secretariat:
    phone: (+48 22) 57-92-326
    fax: (+48 22) 57-92-463
    e-mail: Departament.Zmian.Klimatu.i.Ochrony.Atmosfery@mos.gov.pl

42. general responsibilities

    • Provide advice on and harmonise, with regard to their conformity to the current policies approved, the draft proposals for environmental strategies and programmes, assumptions, study elaborates, socio-economic plans an other documents prepared at the Ministry, as well as those delivered by the Polish Council of Ministers and Members thereof, the Permanent Committee of the Council of Ministers, the Parliament and Senate of the Republic of Poland,
    • Develop, monitor and improve the principles for performance of the mechanisms which support implementation of environmental tasks (emission trading, joint implementation and clean development mechanism projects, etc.),
    • Develop principles for and coordinate cooperation between the public administration authorities and the operators in the scope of allocation of the sectoral emission allowances under commitments assumed by Poland,
    • Manage the cases in the scope of administrative proceedings under appealing procedure concerning the permits to participate in the Emission Allowance Trading Scheme,
    • Participate to activities managed by the European Union bodies as falling in the Departmental activity profile, including those in the field of energy and climate policy,
    • Provide advice on the materials and correspondence prepared by other organisational entities in relation to Poland's membership in the European Union, including the documents to be submitted for consideration by the European Committee of the Polish Council of Ministers, the instructions to be submitted during debates of particular bodies of the Council of Europe, and the statements to be forwarded to the European Commission, Secretariat of the Council of Europe, and the European Parliament,
    • Promote the activities relating to rational use of energy and development of energy sector based on renewable energy resources,
    • Manage, in collaboration with Department of International Cooperation, the matters which relate to implementation of the International Agreements, in particular those under:
      • the Convention on Long-Range Transboundary Air Pollution, including its Protocols,
      • the Vienna Convention on the Protection of the Ozone Layer, including the Montreal Protocol on Substances that Deplete the Ozone Layer,
      • the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change and the Kyoto Protocol;
    • Manage the matters in the scope of the Minister's supervision over the National Administrator of the Emission Allowance Trading Scheme.

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1. Department of Strategic Planning
   
   Director:
   Monika Kaczyńska
   
   Deputy Director:
   Szymon Tumielewicz
   
   

2. Secretariat:
   phone: (+48 22) 57-92-756
   fax: (+48 22) 57-92-760
   e-mail: Departament.Planowania.Strategicznego@mos.gov.pl

3. general responsibilities

   • Undertaking actions aimed at developing and implementing tools to enable performance of objectives resulting from strategic documents and monitoring effectiveness of measures taken in areas under the responsibility of the Minister,
   • Coordinating works of the Ministry on the horizontal strategic documents within the development management system of Poland, with the exception of strategic documents thematically covered by the competencies of other units,
   • Providing opinions for strategic documents prepared by other public administration authorities with regard to compliance with priorities of the Minister,
   • Coordinating implementation of tasks relating to the efficient use of resources, integrated product policy, changes in production and consumption patterns, green public procurement, as well as thematic strategies about the urban environment,
   • Creating research policy of the Ministry, preparing reports and studies, analyzing national and community trends and directions of country’s social and economic development, as well as cooperating with external experts,
   • Coordinating participation of a representative of the Minister in the Coordination Committee for Development Policy,
   • Participating in works of international and national teams and working groups in order to ensure coordination and develop solutions enabling appropriate implementation of tasks,
   • Coordinating matters related to the implementation of projects within the 5th Indicative Programme and supervising the use of funds from PHARE Environmental Partnership Fund,
   • Cooperating with the Infrastructure and Environment Operational Programme Department, within the implementation of the Infrastructure and Environment Operational Programme.

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6. General Director's Office
   
   Director:
   Małgorzata Sołtyszewska
   
   Deputy Director:
   Piotr Karpowicz
   
   Deputy Director: 
   Marcin Kuśmierczyk
   
   Deputy Director:
   Paweł Potyra 
   
   Secretariat:
   phone: (+48 22) 57-92-523
   fax:(+48 22) 57-92-524
   e-mail: Biuro.Dyrektora.Generalnego@mos.gov.pl

   general responsibilities

   • Provide routine human resource services,
   • Implement the activities aimed at professional development of the Ministry staff,
   • Manage the matters which relate to granting decorations, honours and awards,
   • Provide financial and accounting services to individual Ministerial organisational entities,
   • Manage routine payroll calculation and monitor the current operation and use of the Ministerial Remuneration Fund,
   • Participate to implementation of the "Infrastructure and Environment" Operational Programme in the scope of financing and clearance of its particular priority axis,
   • Coordinate the matters in the scope of granting the public procurements,
   • Administer the Ministry's property components,
   • Administer the Ministry's office and auxiliary premises,
   • Manage the Ministry Archives,
   • Administer the Ministry Information Technology and Communication systems,
   • Designing the structure of the Ministerial Intranet and Internet websites and updating thereof,
   • Supervise and control the compliance with the legal provisions on labour protection and occupational safety and hygiene.

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10. Bureau of Water Management

11. Director:
    Iwona Gawłowska

 

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4. Personnel and Training Bureau

1. Director:
   Małgorzata Maludzińska

   Deputy Director:
   Anna Kasprzycka

   Secretariat:
   phone: (+48 22) 57-92-751
   fax:(+48 22) 57-92-754
   e-mail: Biuro.Kadr.i.Szkolen@mos.gov.pl

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4. Bureau of Inspection and Internal Audit
   
   Director:
   Andrzej Zbylut

5. Deputy Director:
   Ewa Knedler
   
   Secretariat:
   phone: (+48 22) 57-92-432
   fax: (+48 22) 57-92-499
   e-mail: Biuro.Kontroli.i.Audytu.Wewnetrznego@mos.gov.pl

   general responsibilities

   • Manage inspections to provide for independent and impartial information on performance of the entities subordinate to and supervised by Minister of the Environment, as well as of the Ministerial internal organisation entities,
   • Manage and perform audits as required to provide for independent and impartial assessment of efficiency and effectiveness of the Ministerial management and control systems,
   • Manage and coordinate the matters which relate to consideration of the complaints and postulates being received by the Ministry,
   • Manage inventory of post-inspection conclusions and provide relevant services to the external control authorities active with Ministry of the Environment.

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9. Minister's Office
   
   Director:
   -
    
   Secretariat:
   phone: (+48 22) 57-92-353
   fax: (+48 22) 57-92-753
   e-mail: Biuro.Ministra@mos.gov.pl

   general responsibilities

   • Provide the relevant services to members of Sectoral Management, i.e. Minister, Secretary of State, and Under-Secretaries of State, with regard to their parliamentary and governmental activities,
   • Provide both the members of Sectoral Management and the ministerial organisational entities with information resulted from debates held by the Polish Council of Ministers and the Permanent Committee of the Council of Ministers,
   • Manage the inventory of and conduct the proceedings on the parliamentary questions and addresses, senate positions, and other petitions,
   • Co-ordinate the activities relating to participation of the Minister, Secretary of State, and Under-Secretaries of State in debates by the Council of Ministers and its permanent Committees,
   • Manage and document the Minister’s occasional correspondence,
   • Co-ordinate documentary circulation at the Ministry,
   • Cooperate with the Trade Unions,
   • Provide servicing of the Minister's tasks which relate to the activity of the Inter-Sectoral Team on Up-to-Date Economic,
   • Manage the General Chancellery of the Ministry.

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12. Press Bureau
    
    Director:
    Grzegorz Zygan
    
    Secretariat:
    phone: (+48 22) 57-92-878
    fax: (+48 22) 57-92-473
    e-mail Biuro.Prasowe@mos.gov.pl

    general responsibilities

    • Provide the relevant services to members of Sectoral Management, i.e. Minister, Secretary of State, and Under-Secretaries of State, with regard to their parliamentary and governmental activities,
    • Provide ongoing media services to Ministry of the Environment,
    • Secure prompt information transfer to the media on the activities of the environmental sector,
    • Organise and service news conferences and briefings for journalists,
    • Prepare everyday news reviews based on the current releases from central and regional press, radio, TV and electronic media,
    • Provide for timely updating of the Ministerial website
    • Put on Ministerial website the relevant communiqués promoting current Ministry's activities, as well as other press releases and materials.
    • Collaborate with Ministerial Spokesperson,
    • Promote environmentally sound events such as the POLEKO Fair, Earth Day, The Polish Ecology Leader Award, and secure medial servicing thereof.

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