EU court fines Poland 1 mln euros per day in rule of law row
The Court of Justice of the European Union has already fined Poland 500,000 euros a day for defying a court ruling to halt operations at the Turow coal mine on the Czech border.

The Court of Justice of the European Union has already fined Poland 500,000 euros a day for defying a court ruling to halt operations at the Turow coal mine on the Czech border.
The coal and lignite mine database was first established in 2021. It lists 68 coal deposits distributed among 42 organisational units, belonging to 33 mines within 12 companies. The criterion for including the deposits was an extraction of at least 2 thousand tonnes of coal in any year between 2015-2021.
Analysis of financial risk of a hard coal mine participation in DSR mechanisms in Poland – a case study Piotr Olczak1*, Dominik Kryzia1, Dominika Matuszewska2, and Artur Halbina2 1Mineral and Energy Economy Research Institute, Polish Academy of Sciences, 7A Wybickiego St., 31-261 Cracow, Poland 2AGH University of Science and Technology, …
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Germany's carbon emissions have been in general decline since 1979. Last year, they reached their lowest levels since the 1950s, with coal-power generation dropping by a quarter compared to 2022, from …
WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Two miners were killed and one remains missing after a cave-in at the Myslowice-Wesola coal mine in southern Poland early Tuesday in which 12 other miners were hurt, mining authorities said Tuesday. The cave-in happened around 3:30 a.m. some 870 meters (2,800 feet) underground in an area …
During the development of deep coalbed methane (CBM), the production of coal fines is common and suppresses the yield of CBM. This work takes the deep CBM wells in the Qinshui Basin as a case …
Seven of the coal plants have been among the top 10 highest emitting power stations every year for the last decade, with PGE's Bełchatów in Poland topping the list since the EU-ETS scheme ...
Hard coal and lignite are of strategic importance to Poland. Compared with other European Union member states, Poland has substantially larger reserves of hard coal and lignite and makes good use of these energy resources for electricity production. Hard coal reserves total 21.1 billion tonnes, located mostly in the Upper Silesian and Lublin coal basins, …
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And last month, the ECJ imposed a daily €500,000 ($586,000) fine for each day Poland continues extracting coal at an open-pit mine near the Czech and German borders.
Dependency on coal. Coal supplies around 45 per cent of Poland's energy needs, but coal combustion also contributes roughly 150 million tons of carbon dioxide …
The European Union is preparing to deduct millions of euros from payments to Poland in order to cover fines imposed on Warsaw for ignoring a court injunction to close down a open pit brown coal mine …
Some importers have still suspended imports of coal fines as they wait to see how sustainable the latest price rally is, since competition among suppliers of coal fines in Poland is fierce. One importer said they were "lucky" to buy 5,500 kcal/kg 0-50mm Russian coal for February-delivery for $63.50 DAP border price, when offers ranged at $68-75/t.
At a press briefing Friday, the European Commission's spokesperson for rule of law issues, Christian Wigand, declined to specify the total amount paid by Poland, but confirmed that fines have been collected since November 3, 2021. If paid in full, that would put the total figure paid by Poland at more than €500 million.
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Those who choose to leave mining will qualify for a severance payment of 120,000 zlotys ($32,000). The agreement also provides for an investment of over 16 …
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WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Some 2,000 Polish coal miners traveled to Luxembourg to stage a noisy protest Friday against a decision by the European Union's …
Generally, Polish coal mines have not planned to sell low-sulphur coal fines to the smaller users. • Coal fines production with sulphur contents less than 0.4% (or even 0.47%) has not been foreseen by the mining industry at all (because so great a reduction of sulphur content in the preparation processes is not viable in relation to the ...
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The first, an analysis of the current state of the hard coal sector, shows that Poland has approximately 32 billion tons of undeveloped hard coal deposits, which the government deems a sufficient reserve to ensure availability of a domestic coal supply capacity (for comparison, in 2019 Polish coal mines extracted 62 million tons of coal).
For the first time, the E.U. executive arm said it would divert millions in grants to a member country to cover unpaid fines, escalating a confrontation despite jitters over Ukraine.
In Poland's late summer heat, dozens of cars and trucks line up at the Lubelski Wegiel Bogdanka coal mine, as ers fearful of winter shortages wait for days and nights to stock up on ...
PSCMI 2 – price of steam coal fines (class 23-26/08) in sales to industrial and municipal heating plants, industrial users and other domestic customers. Price "ex mine" – before export from the mine, no excise tax, VAT, insurance and delivery costs included.
The Czech Republic and Poland struck a deal Thursday ending their dispute over the Turów open pit coal mine — a fight that had soured relations between the two allies and ... which would see Poland saddled with millions in payments and fines, was announced by Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki and his Czech counterpart …
Smoke and steam billow from Belchatow Power Station, Europe's largest coal-fired power plant powered by lignite, operated by Polish utility PGE, in Rogowiec, Poland, November 22, 2023.
Coal mining is considered hazardous in Poland, where some coal mines are prone to methane gas explosions or to cave-ins. Excavation in older mines goes deep into the ground in search for coal, increasing the job's hazards. The coal industry is among Poland's key employers, providing some 75,000 jobs.
State of coal-preparation technology in PolandThere are 45 coal-preparation plants in Poland. In 1990–1999, 12 new preparation plants were built, out of which 11 are new coal-fines preparation plants. In all coal-preparation plants, there is a section for the preparation of middle and coarse grains (above 20 and 10 mm, respectively).
Poland is already subject to another raft of daily fines: in late September, the ECJ ordered Warsaw to pay €500,000-a-day over its failure to close a coal mine on the Polish-Czech border. Prague ...