Ministry of State Assets (Poland)
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The Ministry of State Assets (MAP) (Polish: Ministerstwo Aktywów Państwowych) is a Polish government administration office currently serving the minister responsible for two departments of government administration: state assets and communications.{{Cite web |date=2024-05-16 |title=Dz.U. 2024 poz. 741 |url=https://isap.sejm.gov.pl/isap.nsf/DocDetails.xsp?id=WDU20240000741 |access-date=2024-05-27 |website=isap.sejm.gov.pl}} The ministry was established on November 15, 2019, following the transformation of the Ministry of Energy, and has undergone several reorganizations in subsequent years. The competency equivalent of the office before 2017 was the Ministry of State Treasury.
History
The Ministry of State Assets was established on November 15, 2019, on the day the second Mateusz Morawiecki government was formed. The head of the new office became the then Deputy Prime Minister Jacek Sasin.{{Cite web |title=Official website of the President of the Republic of Poland / News / Events / President appoints new government [PL/ENG] |url=https://www.prezydent.pl/aktualnosci/wydarzenia/art,1593,prezydent-nowy-rzad.html |access-date=2024-05-27 |publisher=www.prezydent.pl}} The ministry began operations on November 19, 2019.{{Cite web |author=Krystian Rosiński |date=2019-11-19 |title=Ministry of State Assets. We got to know Jacek Sasin's collaborators |url=https://www.money.pl/gospodarka/ministerstwo-aktywow-panstwowych-poznalismy-wspolpracownikow-jacka-sasina-6447828271675521a.html |access-date=2024-05-27 |publisher=www.money.pl}} The legal basis for its establishment was a regulation of the Council of Ministers issued on that day, which amended the regulation on the establishment of the Ministry of Energy.{{Cite web |date=2019-11-19 |title=Dz.U. 2019 poz. 2290 |url=https://isap.sejm.gov.pl/isap.nsf/DocDetails.xsp?id=WDU20190002290 |access-date=2024-05-27 |website=isap.sejm.gov.pl}} Initially, the minister's scope of activities remained unchanged and included managing two departments of government administration: energy and the economy of mineral deposits.{{Cite web |date=2019-11-19 |title=Dz.U. 2019 poz. 2256 |url=https://isap.sejm.gov.pl/isap.nsf/DocDetails.xsp?id=WDU20190002256 |access-date=2024-05-27 |website=isap.sejm.gov.pl}}
Transformations in the ministry occurred after the Act of January 23, 2020, amending the Act on Government Administration Departments came into force, which, among other things, created the new department of state assets.{{Cite web |date=2020-01-23 |title=Dz.U. 2020 poz. 284 |url=https://isap.sejm.gov.pl/isap.nsf/DocDetails.xsp?id=WDU20200000284 |access-date=2024-05-27 |website=isap.sejm.gov.pl}} This amendment was essentially a return to solutions used before January 1, 2017, when the Treasury Department existed within the government administration, covering matters of a similar nature.{{Cite web |date=2016-04-19 |title=Dz.U. 2016 poz. 543 |url=https://isap.sejm.gov.pl/isap.nsf/DocDetails.xsp?id=WDU20160000543 |access-date=2024-05-27 |website=isap.sejm.gov.pl}} Appropriate changes in the scope of ministers' activities and the structures serving their offices were made by regulations of the Prime Minister and the Council of Ministers of March 20, 2020. Since then, the Minister of State Assets has managed two departments of state administration: state assets and the economy of mineral deposits,{{Cite web |date=2020-03-21 |title=Dz.U. 2020 poz. 496 |url=https://isap.sejm.gov.pl/isap.nsf/DocDetails.xsp?id=WDU20200000496 |access-date=2024-05-27 |website=isap.sejm.gov.pl}}{{Cite web |date=2020-03-21 |title=Dz.U. 2020 poz. 498 |url=https://isap.sejm.gov.pl/isap.nsf/DocDetails.xsp?id=WDU20200000498 |access-date=2024-05-27 |website=isap.sejm.gov.pl}} while the matters of the energy department were transferred to the newly created Ministry of Climate.{{Cite web |date=2020-03-21 |title=Dz.U. 2020 poz. 499 |url=https://isap.sejm.gov.pl/isap.nsf/DocDetails.xsp?id=WDU20200000499 |access-date=2024-05-27 |website=isap.sejm.gov.pl}}
Further changes were made under the Prime Minister's regulations of October 8, 2020, and the Council of Ministers' regulations of October 9, 2020, involving the transfer of the communications department to the Minister of State Assets,{{Cite web |date=2020-10-08 |title=Dz.U. 2020 poz. 1746 |url=https://isap.sejm.gov.pl/isap.nsf/DocDetails.xsp?id=WDU20200001746 |access-date=2024-05-27 |website=isap.sejm.gov.pl}}{{Cite web |date=2020-10-09 |title=Dz.U. 2020 poz. 1757 |url=https://isap.sejm.gov.pl/isap.nsf/DocDetails.xsp?id=WDU20200001757 |access-date=2024-05-27 |website=isap.sejm.gov.pl}} previously managed by the Minister of Infrastructure.{{Cite web |date=2020-10-08 |title=Dz.U. 2020 poz. 1745 |url=https://isap.sejm.gov.pl/isap.nsf/DocDetails.xsp?id=WDU20200001745 |access-date=2024-05-27 |website=isap.sejm.gov.pl}}{{Cite web |date=2020-10-09 |title=Dz.U. 2020 poz. 1756 |url=https://isap.sejm.gov.pl/isap.nsf/DocDetails.xsp?id=WDU20200001756 |access-date=2024-05-27 |website=isap.sejm.gov.pl}}
Following the formation of the third Donald Tusk government on December 13, 2023, the management of the mineral deposits economy department was removed from the Minister of State Assets' scope and transferred to the newly appointed Minister of Industry. The matters of handling this department were carried out by the Ministry of State Assets until March 1, 2024, when, based on a regulation of the Council of Ministers of February 20, 2024, the Ministry of Industry was established (with headquarters in Katowice in the former Directorate of the Prince of Pszczyna Mines building) by separating part of MAP's structures.{{Cite web |date=2024-02-27 |title=Dz.U. 2024 poz. 260 |url=https://isap.sejm.gov.pl/isap.nsf/DocDetails.xsp?id=WDU20240000260 |access-date=2024-05-27 |website=isap.sejm.gov.pl}}{{Cite web |date=2024-02-13 |title=Jak zapowiedziano, tak zrobiono. Ministerstwo Przemysłu ma już siedzibę w Katowicach |url=https://www.portalsamorzadowy.pl/gospodarka-komunalna/jak-zapowiedziano-tak-zrobiono-ministerstwo-przemyslu-ma-juz-siedzibe-w-katowicach,523500.html |access-date=2024-05-27 |website=www.portalsamorzadowy.pl |language=pl}}
Scope of activities
According to the provisions of the Act on Government Administration Departments, the scope of activities of the minister responsible for the departments of state assets and communications includes:{{Cite web |date=2022-12-06 |title=Dz.U. 2022 poz. 2512 |url=https://isap.sejm.gov.pl/isap.nsf/DocDetails.xsp?id=WDU20220002512 |access-date=2024-05-28 |website=isap.sejm.gov.pl}}
- Matters of managing state property, including exercising property and personal rights vested in the State Treasury, as well as protecting the interests of the State Treasury (excluding matters assigned to other departments by separate regulations);
- Matters of representing the State Treasury within the scope specified above;
- Matters of initiating state policy regarding the use of state property to ensure its rational and effective use, increase its value, and implement the state's economic policy;
- Matters of postal services.
Management
- Jakub Jaworowski – Minister of State Assets (since May 13, 2024){{Cite web |date=2024-05-13 |title=Zmiany w rządzie Tuska. Andrzej Duda powołał nowych ministrów - Wiadomości Radio ZET |url=https://wiadomosci.radiozet.pl/polska/polityka/zmiany-w-rzadzie-tuska-andrzej-duda-powolal-nowych-ministrow |access-date=2024-05-27 |website=wiadomosci.radiozet.pl |language=pl}}{{Cite web |title=Kierownictwo Ministerstwa Aktywów Państwowych - Ministerstwo Aktywów Państwowych - Portal Gov.pl |url=https://www.gov.pl/web/aktywa-panstwowe/kierownictwo-ministerstwa |access-date=2024-05-27 |website=Ministerstwo Aktywów Państwowych |language=pl-PL}}
- Robert Kropiwnicki (PO) – Secretary of State (since December 13, 2023){{Cite web |title=Robert Kropiwnicki - Ministerstwo Aktywów Państwowych - Portal Gov.pl |url=https://www.gov.pl/web/aktywa-panstwowe/robert-kropiwnicki |access-date=2024-05-27 |website=Ministerstwo Aktywów Państwowych |language=pl-PL}}
- Marcin Kulasek (NL) – Secretary of State (since December 22, 2023){{Cite web |title=Marcin Kulasek - Ministerstwo Aktywów Państwowych - Portal Gov.pl |url=https://www.gov.pl/web/aktywa-panstwowe/marcin-kulasek |access-date=2024-05-27 |website=Ministerstwo Aktywów Państwowych |language=pl-PL}}
- Zbigniew Ziejewski (PSL) – Secretary of State (since December 22, 2023){{Cite web |title=Zbigniew Ziejewski - Ministerstwo Aktywów Państwowych - Portal Gov.pl |url=https://www.gov.pl/web/aktywa-panstwowe/zbigniew-ziejewski |access-date=2024-05-27 |website=Ministerstwo Aktywów Państwowych |language=pl-PL}}
- Jacek Bartmiński (PL2050) – Undersecretary of State (since December 22, 2023){{Cite web |title=Jacek Bartmiński - Ministerstwo Aktywów Państwowych - Portal Gov.pl |url=https://www.gov.pl/web/aktywa-panstwowe/jacek-bartminski |access-date=2024-05-27 |website=Ministerstwo Aktywów Państwowych |language=pl-PL}}
- Ewa Weber – Director General{{Cite web |title=Ewa Weber - Ministerstwo Aktywów Państwowych - Portal Gov.pl |url=https://www.gov.pl/web/aktywa-panstwowe/ewa-weber |access-date=2024-05-27 |website=Ministerstwo Aktywów Państwowych |language=pl-PL}}