The answer to the question of what actions are possible in Orlen to reduce fuel prices should be known by the end of March, says Prime Minister Donald Tusk. He recalled that a competition procedure is currently underway to elect a new management board of the concern.
“As you know, they are currently being rebuilt Orlen authorities. (…) I hope that by the end of March we should have preliminary answers about what actions are possible within the company fuel prices were lower than now,” Tusk said during a press conference.
Transparent recruitment rules
“We take our obligations quite seriously that who governs a given State Treasury company will be decided by transparent competition procedures. I care very much about this authorities of State Treasury companiesincluding Orlen, were as competent and as non-political as possible – although, of course, in strategic companies politics will always be present. But she can’t rely on being like this pure party politics has primacy over the interests of either the company or, more broadly, the market,” added the Prime Minister.
Competition for bosses in Orlen
Last week Orlen’s supervisory board she announced qualification procedure for the positions of president of the management board, vice-presidents of the management board for finance and for strategy and sustainable development, as well as members of the management board for upstream, for energy and energy transformation, for retail sales, for corporate affairs, for wholesale trade and logistics and for .production. Deadline for submitting candidacies for the Orlen Management Board expires on March 1 this year, and job interviews with candidates will take place on March 11-15 this year.
Orlen Group manages refineries in Poland, the Czech Republic and Lithuania, conducts retail operations in Central Europe, mining operations in Poland, Norway, Canada and Pakistan, and is also involved in energy production, including renewable energy sources and natural gas distribution. As part of the construction of a multi-energy concern, the company finalized the acquisitions of Energa, Grupa Lotos and PGNiG. Its consolidated sales revenues reached PLN 372.64 billion in 2023. The company has been listed on the WSE since 1999; is included in the WIG20 index.
(ISBnews)
