PiS MP Paweł Sałek announced in October that he would request the convening of a special meeting of the Parliamentary Committee on Environmental Protection, Natural Resources and Forestry for consultations on the inclusion of forest areas in sustainable forest management. “In order to thoroughly analyse the results of the social consultations announced by the Ministry of Culture and Science, they are being repeated because the first ones did not go as planned,” Sałek wrote.
Paweł Sałek noted on social media that Polish society was very actively involved in the consultations on the moratorium by Minister Hennig-Kloski, and the votes for or against its rejection are currently being counted.
A word about work… On 5 August, consultations on the exclusion of forest areas from sustainable forest management (Minister Paulina Hennig-Kloski’s moratorium) ended. The case concerned the Regional Directorates of State Forests: Białystok, Gdańsk, Krosno, Radom, Wrocław. The news we received shows that society participated very actively. The issue is encouraging in light of the results that the State Forests are expected to publish by 25 August this year.
— wrote Paweł Sałek in X.
He assessed that the moratorium, regardless of the outcome of the vote, was illegal anyway.
Currently, the votes in support or opposition to the moratorium, which were sent electronically and on paper to five RDSF, are being counted, and interested parties are impatiently awaiting the result of the consultations: how many votes will be FOR and how many AGAINST the moratorium? (In my opinion – it is illegal anyway)
– he added.
Will the Commission consider the applications?
The PiS MP announced that he would submit a request to convene an extraordinary meeting of the Parliamentary Committee on Environmental Protection, Natural Resources and Forests, the purpose of which would be to analyze the results of the public consultations.
However, today, during the summer holidays, I would like to inform you that, as Deputy Chairman of the Sejm Committee on Environmental Protection, Natural Resources and Forestry, I will request the convening of an extraordinary meeting of the committee (provided for in Article 152.2 of the Sejm Rules of Procedure). Why? To thoroughly examine the results of the social consultations announced by @MKiS_GOV_PL (they are repeated because the first ones did not go as planned…). The members constituting 1/3 of the Committee have the right to convene such a meeting, which must be held within a month.
– he pointed.
The agenda of the Commission meeting will certainly include points regarding the comments submitted, opinions, entities, persons who participated, which comments were submitted and how they were dealt with. The agenda of the Commission meeting will also include an invitation to the Minister of Environment and Climate Paulina Hennig-Kloska, Chief Nature Conservationist Mikołaj Dorożała, Director General of State Forests and 5 directors of the RDL affected by this operation.
– added Salek.
Overwhelming results
The former deputy environment minister said a parliamentary discussion on the moratorium was necessary to avoid giving the Ministry of Environmental Protection the opportunity to arbitrarily decide on the conclusions of public consultations.
The issue of repeated consultations and results, as well as the INTERPRETATION of votes FOR and AGAINST, should be discussed in parliament. So that it does not happen that consultations are consultations, but the most important thing is who counts the votes and what interpretation of the results the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage will demand from the LP. Because somehow it happened that the Ministry of Climate and Environment already on Monday, August 5, informed Dziennik Gazeta Prawna that the changes would be cosmetic because of the moratorium. Does the ministry already know that the majority of the participants in the consultation were against the moratorium? If the participants voted FOR, there would be a media campaign that society wants a moratorium, and if they voted AGAINST, the results of the consultations would be thrown out. Because the changes will be cosmetic
– he justified.
Simply put: the results of the consultations are overwhelming for the Ministry of Climate and Environment. As they say in the services, this issue cannot be “screwed up”. We are waiting for August 25th of this year, but unofficially we already know a lot about the evolution of the votes currently counted 5 RDLP
– summed up Sałek.
