3.6 Gospodarka wodno-ściekowa w aglomeracjach Część 1) Gospodarka ściekowa w ramach Krajowego Programu Oczyszczania Ścieków Komunalnych

Applicant types

Municipality, Public body, SME, Large company, Startup, Other

Purpose

Energy, environment, infrastructure

R&D relevance

0 of 3

Poland eligible

Yes

Country limit

Poland; agglomerations covered by the current National Municipal Wastewater Treatment Programme

Region

Any

Consortium

Single applicant

Readiness level (TRL)

—

Topics

• Municipal wastewater treatment
• Sanitary sewer networks
• Sewer connections
• Water infrastructure

Machine-classified from the call text; check eligibility at the source. 24 Oct 2026

Typed facts extracted from the source documents by Scindu's grant-data review. Each value keeps its own conditions. Unknown means unstated, not zero or unlimited.

Applicant typePart 1 KPOŚK only; beneficiaries specified in the 2026 version.

The current Part 1 programme names local-government units and their associations, and entities providing public services while performing local-government units’ own tasks. This is a public-purpose beneficiary route, not a general private-business grant.

Application restrictionExact Part 1 KPOŚK route ID pl_nfosigw:815e6b1358a36118, identifier 18/NC/OW/1.1/2024/cz.1-KPOŚK, fingerprint 7dd1fdb9e2323801f00b59cd7e709d2cf9d0588c87a5e99c9e7d59678a43aa32.

As of the exact route snapshot dated 22 October 2026, the NFOŚiGW harmonogram lists this Part 1 KPOŚK route as an ongoing continuous intake through 29 October 2027. The July 2025 call notice says applications run from 1 March 2017 to 29 October 2027 or until the allocation is exhausted. Live GWD acceptance was not tested.

Application restrictionMain route access requirements under current 2026 programme text; additional project-location conditions are represented separately.

The current programme’s access screen requires on-time submission on the required current form and in required format; a complete, properly signed application with all required form fields; an eligible beneficiary and programme-consistent objective, project type, period, loan form and intensity; the project must not already be completed; the agglomeration must be in the current KPOŚK; and applicant must satisfy NFOŚiGW termination and public/civil-obligation checks.

Application restrictionScoring thresholds vary by project class and checklist; this fact gives the overall minimum and indicates additional area gates without treating one subproject type as universal.

The current programme scores projects across technical/project-justification, feasibility, cost-effectiveness and horizontal criteria. The overall minimum for a positive selection is 60 points; each applicable thematic area also has its own minimum, with area thresholds varying by criterion and project type.

Application restrictionRules for the exact NFOŚiGW continuous call; actual GWD availability for this applicant was not tested.

Applications use the applicable programme form in GWD and normally require electronic signature. If an applicant cannot use that signature, the 2025 regulations require the electronic GWD submission plus a generated short print with barcode and appropriately signed declarations; the call notice provides delivery to NFOŚiGW for that fallback.

Application restrictionIndividual award, repayment schedule, security and disbursements are not fixed for an applicant by the general programme.

The 2025 regulations provide a multi-stage access and qualitative review, a one-time opportunity to supplement access documents, and negotiations on loan amount, scope, financial schedule, duration/grace/repayment, security and financing mix. The agreed negotiation sheet is not itself a funding commitment; NFOŚiGW may alter conditions and the final award/loan terms are set by resolution and contract.

Eligible geographyProject-location and service-area conditions for the Part 1 KPOŚK route.

The project must serve an agglomeration included in the currently applicable KPOŚK update. Wastewater treated at the funded plant must come from the designated agglomeration; sewer, connection, stormwater or water-supply scope must be located in or serve that agglomeration.

Eligible project scopeOnly the Part 1 project subtype of building connections; not a claim that every Part 1 project is connection-only.

For building connections, support is limited to domestic wastewater produced in households (including housing communities and cooperatives), agritourism farms and public-use facilities. Unbuilt plots and unused buildings are excluded, and the beneficiary is responsible for selecting connection recipients. Complex water-supply or stormwater additions are conditional on the programme’s directive-compliance rule.

Eligible project scopeOnly the Part 1 national KPOŚK route. FEnIKS co-financing belongs to the distinct Part 2 route and is not merged into this packet.

Part 1 covers construction, expansion or modernization of municipal wastewater-treatment plants; collective sanitary-sewer systems, with building connections when part of the project; and building connections to an existing sanitary sewer in a designated agglomeration. Complex projects may also include water-supply systems or stormwater drainage if they contribute to compliance with the Urban Waste Water Treatment Directive. The programme excludes projects receiving support under FEnIKS 2021–2027, which belongs to the distinct Part 2 route.

Eligible project scopeExact Part 1 form per current programme; no Part 2 liquidity loan is asserted for this route.

The current 2026 Part 1 programme specifies support as a loan. Its 2025 notice describes the broader parent call as offering loans and a liquidity loan for Part 2; those Part 2 forms are not read into this exact Part 1 route.

Other conditionPart 1 loan; disbursement schedule remains negotiated.

Loan tranches may be disbursed as advances or reimbursement. The specific funding schedule is negotiated for the applicant; this source does not state any applicant-specific payment dates.

Other conditionUncommitted budget and maximum principal remain unknown. The two published pools have different scopes and dates.

The 2025 call notice publishes a PLN 200 million allocation for the broader notice covering Part 1 plus the two listed Part 2 loan variants. The 2026 programme states an overall up-to-PLN-5-billion budget across programme parts. Sources do not show the current remaining amount, a Part 1-only share, or a maximum loan principal per project; no amount is derived from either pool.

Other conditionConditional loan cancellation; metric year and municipal aggregation follow programme footnotes and must be verified for the exact applicant. This is not a grant award or guaranteed forgiveness.

After repaying 40% of the disbursed loan, the beneficiary may apply using the NFOŚiGW form for partial forgiveness. The maximum is up to 50% of disbursed principal, capped at PLN 5 million if the qualifying municipal tax-income index G is below 1200, or up to 30%, capped at PLN 5 million if G is at least 1200. Approved forgiveness is applied to the final principal instalments only after project durability is confirmed; it is not automatic.

Other conditionProgramme-wide period in current 2026 text versus the exact ongoing call’s published application window; not a promise that an individual project may submit until 2035.

Programme-defined eligible costs may be incurred from 2014 through 2035. Programme commitments are to be made through 2034 and funds expended through 2035. This programme period differs from the exact current call notice deadline of 29 October 2027.

Other conditionCurrent programme’s explicit definitions for green/park municipalities; does not decide any applicant’s status.

For the programme’s horizontal preference, “green” municipalities are those with more than 50% of their area in legally protected high-nature-value areas; overlapping protected areas are not double-counted. “Park municipalities” have at least 10% of their area within a national park. The green-municipality preference additionally requires the per-capita municipal tax-income index G to be below 92% of the all-municipality Gg index. These definitions relate to project preference; the individual loan-interest clause separately refers to defined categories.

Other conditionThis is a separate price option from the preferential WIBOR-based rates.

The programme also permits market-rate loans that do not constitute State aid, priced using the European Commission reference-rate methodology. Interest is paid quarterly; the programme does not state a fixed market rate in this document.

Other conditionLoan principal minimums by project class; no max principal is stated, and no total per-project amount is inferred.

The minimum loan is PLN 500,000 for projects listed in §7.5(3) (building connections to existing sanitary sewer); for other eligible projects it is PLN 1,000,000. The current programme excerpt sets no maximum loan principal amount.

Other conditionOverall programme budget only; do not use it as the call allocation denominator, project cap or current available balance.

The current 2026 programme sets a programme-wide budget up to PLN 5,000,000 thousand. This applies to the programme objective across its distinct parts and is not the Part 1 call allocation, a per-project cap, or a remaining balance.

Staff restrictionPersonnel/pay treatment is limited to the programme’s stated eligible-cost rules; staffing remains empty and actual hiring/pay is unknown.

The current Part 1 programme explicitly excludes remuneration/wages and external services from eligible project costs. It does not state an eligible personnel category, job titles, headcount, hiring obligation, hourly/monthly pay or compensation rate. The project may have employees funded from other resources, but no hiring/pay facts are established here.

Call allocationPublished call-notice allocation only. The current route record is still open, but neither retained source identifies current uncommitted funds or a Part 1-only share.

PLN 200,000,000

The current 2026 programme text separately states an overall programme budget up to PLN 5,000,000 thousand covering the programme objective; that programme-wide value is not a Part 1 call-specific or unspent amount.

Eligible costEligible-cost classes and quantitative category caps for Part 1; does not imply the applicant will receive a maximum-rate loan.

Eligible works and deliveries are restricted to the listed construction/assembly and supply categories: technology equipment and inventory classified as fixed assets, installations and technology lines, site preparation, demolition/earthworks, relevant treatment/sewer/water works, installation, commissioning, media connections, protective fencing/greenery, technology roads and yards, network relocation, and household connections. Within overall eligible costs, investor supervision is capped at 3% and project preparation/design documentation, author supervision and necessary approvals at 10%; amounts above those caps are non-eligible.

Minimum share for a named cost componentPart 1 KPOŚK costs.

87 percent of the programme-defined eligible project costs

Combined construction/assembly works and deliveries must make up at least 87% of eligible costs. Enumerated categories are limited to the current programme list, including technology equipment and fixed-asset deliveries, site/building works, installations, equipment mounting and building connections.

Funding intensity, maximumPart 1 KPOŚK loan form.

100 percent of programme-defined eligible project costs

Loan support can reach 100% of eligible costs; negotiation and credit/financial assessment conditions still apply; no maximum principal amount is published in the cited clause.

Ineligible costCurrent 2026 Part 1 programme exclusions. No fundable personnel row is asserted; this addresses eligible project cost treatment, not whether a beneficiary employs staff from other resources.

The programme expressly excludes protection plans/programmes, environmental-impact reports, real-estate and land purchase, intangible assets, movable assets not permanently installed in the project, equipment that is not a fixed asset, acquisition of fixed assets by leasing, external services, remuneration/wages, and consumable materials. Accordingly, the current route does not support charging salaries or external services as eligible project costs under these listed exclusions.

Grace period, maximumPart 1 loan.

18 months

Grace is optional, not guaranteed; measured from last tranche to first principal repayment, and may not exceed 18 months after project completion.

Loan interest, minimumPart 1 loan only; applicant-specific pricing is set in the loan agreement.

2 percent per annum floor on the applicable variable loan rate

Preferential-rate option; variable WIBOR 3M rate with a 2.0% annual floor. Interest is repaid quarterly; the market-rate option instead uses the EU reference-rate methodology and is not a fixed percentage.

Loan interest, minimumPart 1 loan only; applicant-specific pricing is set in the loan agreement.

1.5 percent per annum floor on the applicable variable loan rate

Preferential-rate option for projects implemented by defined green or park municipalities; variable WIBOR 3M less 50 bps, annual minimum 1.5%. Interest is repaid quarterly; the market-rate option instead uses the EU reference-rate methodology and is not a fixed percentage.

Loan interest, minimumPart 1 loan only; applicant-specific pricing is set in the loan agreement.

1 percent per annum floor on the applicable variable loan rate

Preferential-rate option for beneficiaries in municipalities where a national park or nature reserve was established or expanded from 2024; variable WIBOR 3M less 100 bps, annual minimum 1%. Interest is repaid quarterly; the market-rate option instead uses the EU reference-rate methodology and is not a fixed percentage.

Loan term, maximumPart 1 loan term exception.

300 months

Only in justified cases arising from the project or beneficiary specifics; this is an exception to the standard 15-year maximum, not an automatic entitlement.

Loan term, maximumPart 1 loan term; specific negotiated term is set in the agreement.

180 months

Base maximum loan-financing period is 15 years, measured from planned first tranche to planned final principal repayment. In justified cases based on project or beneficiary specifics, programme allows a different term up to 25 years; that exception is captured separately.

• Official programme call notice, July 2025 version

  gov.pl

• Regulations for continuous call, July 2025

  gov.pl

• Current 2026 programme text: Gospodarka wodno-ściekowa w aglomeracjach

  gov.pl

• Access checklist attached to official route page; last modified July 2022

  gov.pl

• Sewer qualitative checklist; last modified July 2022

  gov.pl

• Treatment qualitative checklist; last modified July 2022

  gov.pl

• Official NFOŚiGW KPOŚK Part 1 route page

  gov.pl

Opens

1 Mar 2017

Provider

NFOŚiGW · Gospodarka o obiegu zamkniętym, w tym gospodarowanie odpadami, ochrona wód i gospodarka wodna

Source

gov.pl

Checked

24 Oct 2026

Review status

Partial review

Independent QA

No published hold

Reviewed

23 Oct 2026