Data-center law in Poland
National jurisdiction · as of 2026-09-06
Poland has no data-centre-specific licensing statute; a project instead assembles permits across three established regimes.
Grid connection is a statutory entitlement under the Energy Law's Article 7: a distribution or transmission undertaking must conclude a supply or connection agreement with an applicant where technical and economic conditions for delivery exist and the applicant meets the connection and off-take conditions, and a dispute over connection terms, a refusal to connect, or an unjustified halt in supply is decided by the President of the Energy Regulatory Office.
Construction works may begin only under a final building-permit decision under the Construction Law's Article 28, following preparation of a building design, subject to a list of minor works the Act exempts from that requirement.
An environmental-impact assessment is required under the Act on Providing Information on the Environment for a planned undertaking that may always significantly affect the environment, or one that may potentially do so where the competent authority makes that finding on a case-by-case screening; the specific categories of covered undertakings are fixed by a Council of Ministers regulation whose provisions are not described here.
No incentives regime, water-utilities statute, or air-operations permitting requirement specific to a data centre is described here.
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Instruments on record
3 instruments on record, grouped by the family of approval each one governs.
Environmental review
What impact review must precede approval, and who leads it?
Ocena oddzialywania na srodowisko (Environmental Impact Screening Categories)
In force
Ustawa z dnia 3 pazdziernika 2008 r. o udostepnianiu informacji o srodowisku i jego ochronie udziale spoleczenstwa w ochronie srodowiska oraz o ocenach oddzialywania na srodowisko (Dz.U. 2008 nr 199 poz. 1227), art. 59-60
Applies to both
An environmental-impact assessment is required before a planned undertaking that may always significantly affect the environment is carried out, and before one that may potentially significantly affect the environment is carried out where the competent authority has found, on a case-by-case screening, that an assessment is required.
The Council of Ministers fixes, by regulation, the categories of undertaking that may always significantly affect the environment, the categories that may potentially do so, and when a change to an existing facility counts as such an undertaking; that regulation's own list is not described here.
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Energy and grid
What authorizations govern grid connection and onsite generation?
Przylaczenie do sieci (Grid Connection Obligation)
In force
Ustawa z dnia 10 kwietnia 1997 r. - Prawo energetyczne (Dz.U. 1997 nr 54 poz. 348), art. 7-8
Applies to both
An energy undertaking engaged in the transmission or distribution of gas fuels, electricity, or heat must conclude a fuel or energy sale agreement, or a transmission-services agreement, with an off-taker or applicant seeking connection to the network, where technical and economic conditions for delivery exist and the applicant meets the network's connection and off-take conditions.
That duty does not apply where the applicant has no legal title to the premises the fuel, electricity, or heat would serve. A dispute over the terms of service, a refusal to connect, a refusal to conclude a sale agreement, or an unjustified halt in supply is decided, on a party's application, by the President of the Energy Regulatory Office.
Source: Full text of law
Construction
What codes and permits govern the build itself?
Every entry cites the instrument it describes.
None of it is legal advice: verify a citation before relying on it. Full
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