The General Directorate for National Roads and Highways (GDDKiA) is the largest beneficiary of the 2014-2020 Operational Program for Infrastructure and Environment (OPI&E). As it announces it will use all the funds at its disposal in this perspective.

Under the Program, the Directorate of National Roads and Motorways has already contracted 95 % of the allocation in signed funding agreements for 80 road projects. The last projects are in the evaluation stage. More than 91 % of available EU funds have already been allocated. The National Road Fund has already received more than PLN 40.2 billion in reimbursements for road construction expenses.

The European Funds for Infrastructure, Climate, Environment 2021-2027 (FEnIKS) program was approved by the European Commission on October 6, 2022. Like its predecessor (OPI&E), it is the largest program in the entire European Union – both in terms of allocation and number of development priorities.

Road investments carried out by the General Directorate for National Roads and Motorways are financed on an ongoing basis with funds from the National Road Fund (KFD). After signing a contract for funding from the European Funds pool, the expenses incurred (after verification by the Center for EU Transport Projects) are reimbursed to the KFD.

2023 is the last year in which projects under the OPI&E can be settled. Those road investments whose implementation process will not be completed in the current year will have the status of phased projects. This is a completely natural process, resulting from the cycle of work on a particular investment and not affecting its implementation. Its purpose is to make full use of the allocations in the 2014-2020 perspective and a flexible transition to the 2021-2027 perspective.

Phased projects, until the end of this year, will be financed by the OPI&E, and from January 2024 will be declared under the 2021-2027 perspective, after signing a grant agreement under FEnIKS.

Adrian Andrzejewski