Nawrocki blocked a bill revising rules for mandatory gas stocks that aimed, among other changes, to remove provisions the European Commission deemed inconsistent with EU security-of-supply Regulation (EU) 2017/1938.
The draft would have required ministerial consent to store compulsory gas reserves abroad in EU, EEA or EFTA states, extended the deadline to move all stocks to Poland in an emergency to 50 days from 40, and dropped the requirement to reserve interconnector capacity for bringing those stocks home.
In its justification, the presidency said the changes were insufficient to ensure energy security. It argued that allowing foreign storage, while “pro-competitive” in the short term, would discourage domestic investment in gas storage and a second floating LNG terminal (FSRU).
The bill also reshaped oil and fuel stockholding. Current law requires overall reserves equal to 90 days of average production or imports, split between the Governmental Strategic Reserves Agency (RARS) and industry.
Importers and producers now hold 53 days; the draft would have shifted more of that burden to RARS and cut the industry requirement to 50 days upon entry into force, 47 days from June 30, 2026, and 45 days from June 30, 2027.
Plant-protection records veto
Separately, Nawrocki vetoed an amendment requiring farmers to keep plant-protection records only in electronic form.
He said the mandate violated proportionality, equal treatment and consumer-protection standards and was stricter than EU rules and practices in other member states, risking digital exclusion, especially for older farmers and small holdings.
The proposal would have created a web application for about 1.3 million users, with logged access and machine-readable entries serving as the sole documentation for administrative or criminal proceedings.
Required fields included the product name and authorization number, place of use, the crop treated using EPPO codes, and phenological stages under the BBCH scale.
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Source: PAP, IAR