PM Tusk signed a set of non-binding recommendations to give Polish firms more access to state-linked investments, developed by Minister Balczun's team.
A new points-based system quantifies a company's domestic character based on owner location, main activity, tax residency, employment, registration length, and domestic revenue.
The Central Statistical Office will measure local content first in the energy sector in June 2026, later expanding to armaments, transport, and digital.
Tusk emphasized the policy is not meant to deter foreign capital, citing large investors like Lumina Metals who are not alarmed.
During a government meeting and a concurrent event called "Poland Inwestuje" at the Warsaw Stock Exchange, Prime Minister Donald Tusk signed the long-awaited local content recommendations. Prepared by a team led by Minister of State Assets Wojciech Balczun, the document aims to increase the share of Polish companies in strategic investments, particularly those by state-controlled entities. Tusk acknowledged the complexity of the mechanism.
“Today we are finalizing the process of building recommendations for Polish companies, recommendations related to local content. Minister Balczun has just reported to me the completion of all this work.”
“I am convinced that these good practices will become widespread and will not only apply to State Treasury companies.”
The "Local content. With benefit for Poland" project originated from Tusk's April 2025 call for "re-Polonization" of the economy. Its core is a non-binding code of good practices designed to bolster domestic supply chains, technology, and employment in large public and semi-public projects. Despite the nationalist framing, Tusk stressed that the recommendations were not meant to discourage foreign investors. He cited Lumina Metals, a major investor whose debut coincided with the event, as an example of partners unalarmed by the policy.
“There were concerns that this is economic nationalism. I said then: yes, it is economic nationalism, but in a good sense of the word.”
A key challenge was defining what constitutes a Polish company in a transnational economy. The Ministry of State Assets unveiled a points-based system in April 2026. A company's "Polishness" is scored through six weighted components: location of the owner's or parent company's headquarters (25%), the place where main activity is conducted (25%), tax residency in Poland (15%), employment – more than half of staff must be Polish citizens or pay taxes and social security in Poland (15%), registration length – at least three years of existence (10%), and domestic revenues exceeding half of annual income (10%). The Central Statistical Office (GUS) will carry out the measurement.
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A pilot program is set to begin in June 2026, initially targeting the energy sector. Subsequent phases will extend the metric to armaments, transport and infrastructure, and digital technologies. The government hopes the transparent scoring will encourage all companies, not just state-controlled ones, to adopt the recommendations.
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Prime Minister Donald Tusk has signed a set of recommendations aimed at increasing the share of Polish companies in large investment projects, particularly those by state-controlled entities. The document, prepared by the Ministry of State Assets under Minister Wojciech Balczun, introduces a points-based system to measure a company's domestic character.
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