Andrzej Aumiller appointed new Minister of Construction

Andrzej Aumiller has been named the country’s new Minister of Construction. To date, the post had been held by Antoni Jaszczak. Both represent the Self-Defence party.

According to Mr Aumiller, the Ministry’s priority tasks are to prepare a comprehensive housing programme and to more effectively use EU funds for building projects. This will involve drafting a new statute which should take into account the different sectors of the construction industry: developers, individual home builders, co-operatives and municipalities. The new minister believes that the act should cover the 2007-2013 period, i.e. the same timeframe as the budget of the European Union. He also stressed the need to come up with various definitions for social, municipal, co-operative and commercial construction.