Paulina Hennig-Kloska told Polish private broadcaster Radio ZET on Wednesday that “there is an agreement from Brussels expressed in the pre-negotiations… which will be formally accepted at a later stage.”

Introducing a combustion engine vehicle tax was one of the so-called milestones, required for the release of post-pandemic funding from the EU, included in the country’s National Recovery Plan (KPO) by the previous Law and Justice (PiS) government.

The current Polish government has adopted a revision of the KPO, in a bid to change or abolish some of the provisions.

At the end of April, Poland’s funds and regional policy minister, Katarzyna Pełczyńska-Nałęcz, also said that a public tax on combustion cars would not be introduced in Poland.

Speaking at the time, she said: “We are adopting a completely different logic, the logic of subsidies, meaning the logic of an incentive, not the logic of a penalty.”

She added that would be “subsidies for those who want to buy electric cars,” and also mentioned the introduction of subsidies for “mid-range” EVs.

The details of the subsidy program are to be worked out by the Ministry of Climate and Environment, she said.