Prawno-historyczne aspekty połączenia Agencji Mienia Wojskowego i Wojskowej Agencji Mieszkaniowej
Legal and historical aspects of the merger of the Military Property Agency and the Military Housing Agency

Summary/Abstract: The Military Property Agency, which currently operates under this name, is not the same entity as the Military Property Agency established in 1996. Today's Military Property Agency is in fact the Military Housing Agency, established in 1995, which took over the Military Property Agency in 2015. The Military Housing Agency was an entity established to perform tasks related to the accommodation of the Polish Armed Forces. During the communist era and in the early 1990s, tasks related to the accommodation of soldiers were performed within the military structures. The new political, social and economic reality made that this solution no longer the most optimal, so in 1995 it was decided to establish a civil entity to carry out this task in the form of the Military Housing Agency as a state legal entity subordinate to the Minister of National Defence. The Military Property Agency, established in 1995, was the Polish government's response to the problem of significant military property, both movable and immovable, which was no longer needed by the Polish Armed Forces and often generated additional maintenance costs. The fact of changing the military alliance from the Warsaw Pact to NATO necessitated the modernisation of the armed forces and, withdrawal of a significant amount of redundant equipment and armaments. The newly established entity was tasked with improving the management of this redundant property by trading it and, to a large extent, selling it. In 2015, mainly for the purpose of cost optimisation, it was decided to merge the Military Property Agency and the Military Housing Agency into a single entity. This was achieved through the takeover of the Military Property Agency by the Military Housing Agency, with changing its name to the Military Property Agency. The Military Housing Agency took over all the assets and employees of the Military Property Agency.

• Details
• Contents