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Shield 2.0 extends the scope of the aid

By the end of this week, a bill on specific prevention, prevention and eradication solutions is to be developed COVID-19, other infectious diseases and their emergency situations.

By the end of this week, a bill on specific prevention, prevention and eradication solutions is to be developed COVID-19, other infectious diseases and their emergency situations.

After the Sejm rejected the Senate's amendments to the so-called shield package...

By the end of this week, a bill on specific prevention, prevention and eradication solutions is to be developed COVID-19, other infectious diseases and their emergency situations. What changes will he make?

After the Sejm rejected the Senate's amendments to the so-called crisis shield package and introduced the bill, the government leans over it to refine some threads. In cooperation with business and social partners, the various ministries proposed a change 59 Set it up. According to Minister Emilewicz, work on the changes will continue until the end of the week. We're looking at proposals.

  • Extension of the catalogue entitled to exemptions from payment of ZUS. The three-month leave from paying contributions will also have entrepreneurs employing to 45 persons who will benefit from the exemption for 9 workers, as well as social cooperatives.
  • The possibility of renegotiating the terms of bank credit by all entrepreneurs rather than, as so far, excluding the largest entities.
  • Farmers and their domestics subject to compulsory quarantine, epidemiological surveillance or hospitalisation are to be entitled to half the minimum wage.
  • Employment funding is also intended to cover associations and foundations and other third sector entities.
  • A hybrid service is to enter, consisting in converting the traditional paper writing into an electronic version of it and in this form providing it to the addressee. In other words, the mail, with the consent of the addressee, can open the letter and send it to the addressee, scanned or photographed. The proposal for a provision clearly indicates that delivery of the consignment may take place by electronic means if the addressee so agrees. Critics indicate that this is a law introduced for correspondence voting.
  • Establishment of a broadband fund financed by the sum ok. 87,000,000 PLN from the state budget to facilitate Internet access.
  • Introduction of a zero VAT rate for the supply of computer equipment to the National Educational Network.
  • The deadlines for submitting a bankruptcy application shall cease to apply. Those obliged to submit an application will be able to do so after the outbreak has stopped within the time limit 3 months, if the state of bankruptcy is affected by the outbreak.
  • Exclusion from the execution of bailout funds for the fight against coronavirus for health care facilities.

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