Mateusz Morawiecki made the announcement in parliament on Thursday, Polish state news agency PAP reported.
He told MPs: “We have just negotiated our National Recovery Plan with the European Commission. We have finished negotiating the milestones.”
He added: “The European Commission's head, Ursula von der Leyen, will come to Poland next Thursday, June 2, to sign the milestones for the National Recovery Plan.”
He was referring to steps that Poland needs to take for the EU executive to approve the country's National Recovery Plan.
The plan must then be accepted by the EU leaders.
Subject to these two approvals, Poland will be allowed to access the EU’s post-pandemic funds, the PAP news agency reported.
'The milestones'
There are "three milestones," the most important of which is a reform of Poland's disciplinary rules for judges, officials said.
The EU executive is critical of a disciplinary chamber within Poland's Supreme Court, saying it is a politicised body that is designed to penalise judges who oppose the government’s judicial changes.
The EU's top court has ruled that the chamber must be disbanded. It last October fined Poland EUR 1 million a day for maintaining the unit.
Earlier this month, Brussels announced that Poland’s dues had exceeded EUR 160 million.
Bills to reshape Supreme Court
Earlier this year, the Polish President Andrzej Duda and a junior partner in Poland’s governing coalition, United Poland, submitted two separate bills to reorganise the Supreme Court.
The EU’s Justice Commissioner Didier Reynders in early May said the presidential proposal was “a positive step.”
On Thursday, Prime Minister Morawiecki told MPs: “The European Commission has looked into President Duda’s bill to reshape the Supreme Court and decided that it paves the way for the approval of the National Recovery Plan.”
Lawmakers in Poland's lower house, the Sejm, on Thursday evening approved the presidential bill. It now heads to the Senate, the upper house for debate.
(pm/gs)
Source: PAP, euractiv.pl