The business community and experts have insisted that the government should take advantage of Poland’s favourable economic conditions and carry out structural and institutional reforms to sustain high economic growth, stabilise inflation and ensure economic equilibrium. The Ministry of the Economy is working on the National Reform Programme for 2008-2011, which is to help Poland implement the Lisbon Strategy.

Prime Minister’s Office: The most important tasks the government faces in the first half of 2008 is to simplify economic law and reform the pension system. The document the Ministry of the Economy is preparing is an update on the national reform programme for the implementation of the Lisbon Strategy. The changes planned will help to harmonise the programme’s guidelines with the policy pursued by this government. The most important will be legislative work, to be started in the first half of the year, aimed to simplify economic law under the enterprise bill. The government has already adopted a draft amendment to the law on economic freedom and a draft amendment to the civil code. We will now be working on amending the labour code, tax law and company law. Legal solutions are to be worked out by the end of June to speed up the implementation of pension reform, including bridge pensions for those employed in special conditions. Additionally, work is underway on the programme to streamline spending on government administration. (www.kprm.gov.pl)