The Polish Ministry of Finances has prepared an amendment bill for the 2020 budget that, after being transferred to the parliament, has been adopted by the Council of Ministers on 20th August 2020. The national defence expenditure section envisages that an expenditure increase of 3 PLN billion (approx. 0.8 USD billion) shall be expected. The money is to be allocated to modernization efforts, within the framework of a special purpose fund.
The changes mean that the defence spending planned so far, for the year 2020, would be increased from 49.8 PLN billion (approx. 13.5 USD billion) to 52.8 billion zlotys (approx. 14.3 USD billion). Of that amount, 17.8 billion zlotys (4.8 USD billion) would be allocated to capital expenditure, which means that 1/3 of the budget value would be assigned to that section – this is a record-breaking amount. The extra amount would be used to finalize extra equipment purchases, within the framework of the current Technical Modernization Plan.