The significance of the Government Security Center

The Government Security Centreis a state budget unit subordinate to the Prime Minister. The Centre is managed by a director with the assistance of deputies and heads of organizational units. The establishment of the Government Security Centre is a significant step in building an effective and comprehensive crisis management system. A system that allows for preventing crises and, in the event of their occurrence, minimizing their effects through professional actions. A cross-departmental structure has been established to optimize and unify the perception of threats by individual ministries, thereby increasing the ability of relevant services and public administration bodies to cope with difficult situations.

The establishment of the RCB organizes the operation of teams responsible for crisis management, created based on regulations governing the functioning of public administration bodies in the event of a natural disaster. The main tasks of the RCB include conducting a comprehensive analysis of threats, based on data obtained from all possible "crisis centers" operating within public administration and based on data from international partners. Additionally, the RCB is tasked with developing optimal solutions for emerging crisis situations, as well as coordinating the flow of information about threats. Other tasks of the Government Security Centre include:

• creating a catalogue of threats,
• monitoring threats,
• initiating crisis management procedures at the national level,
• implementing planning and programming tasks in the field of crisis management and critical infrastructure protection,
• supervising the coherence of crisis response procedures,
• organizing and conducting training and exercises in crisis management,
• executing tasks related to counteracting, preventing, and eliminating the effects of terrorist incidents,
• international cooperation, especially with NATO and the EU in the field of crisis management.

The Centre provides support to the Council of Ministers, the Prime Minister, the Team, and the minister responsible for internal affairs in crisis management and serves as the national crisis management centre. The Government Security Centre began operations on August 2, 2008. It operates based on the Act of April 26, 2007, on crisis management (art. 10) and the regulation of the Prime Minister of April 11, 2011, on the organization and procedures of the Government Security Centre [1]. The Council of Ministers adoptedthe Report on National Security Threats on September 15, 2015.The document describes about 50 different threat factors, which were formulated in partial reports. Inthe Government Security Centrethese reports were compiled into a single,comprehensive document.The main objectives of the Report are to indicate the most importantnational security threatsand to assess their risk.The document also contains strategic goals and initiatives that should be implemented to minimize the possibility of threats or their consequences. The report is prepared byministers, heads of central offices, and voivodes,while the coordination of its preparation is the responsibility ofthe Director of the Government Security Centreandthe Head of the Internal Security Agencyregarding terrorist threats. The Report identifies threats (along with their scenarios) that may affect the security and international position of the state, as well as undermine the constitutional order, particularly in terms of sovereignty, independence, and territorial integrity. Among the identified threats are also those related to international terrorism. The Report also includesa risk analysisof the most importantthreatsresulting fromnaturalandtechnical causes(e.g., floods, epidemics, epizootics, epiphytotics, chemical contamination, droughts, limitations in electricity supply, limitations in liquid fuel supply), which have also formed the basis for the development of theNational Crisis Management Plan.The Report on National Security Threats is a classified document[2]. The Government Crisis Management Teamis an advisory body,responsible for initiating and coordinating actions taken in the field of crisis management (art. 8 and 9 of the Act of April 26, 2007, on crisis management). The Government Crisis Management Team (RZZK) consists of: jest organem opiniotwórczo – doradczym, właściwym w sprawach inicjowania i koordynowania działań podejmowanych w zakresie zarządzania kryzysowego (art. 8 i 9 ustawy z dnia 26 kwietnia 2007 roku o zarządzaniu kryzysowym). W skład Rządowego Zespołu Zarządzania Kryzysowego (RZZK) wchodzą:

• The Prime Minister – chairperson of the Team,
• The Minister of National Defense and the minister responsible for internal affairs – deputy chairpersons,
• the minister responsible for public administration,
• The Minister of Foreign Affairs,
• The Minister Coordinator of Special Services (if appointed),
• Other government administration bodies as needed.

The Secretary of the Government Crisis Management Team isThe Director of the Government Security Center. The Government Crisis Management Team can convene in both open and closed sessions. The Center provides support to the Council of Ministers, the Prime Minister, the Team, and the minister responsible for internal affairs in crisis management matters and serves as the national crisis management center.[3]. Based on information from the website of the Government Security Center, the leadership of the Government Security Center in 2021 consists of:

- Colonel Konrad Korpowski – Director

- Grzegorz Matyasik – Deputy Director

- Brigadier General Marek Kubiak – Deputy Director

1. The Director of the Government Security Center, in cooperation with ministers and heads of central offices responsible for the systems referred to in Article 3 point 2a, continuously assesses potential European critical infrastructure, examining whether the critical infrastructure meets the following requirements in succession:

1) sector criteria – approximate numerical thresholds established by the European Commission and the member states of the European Union, characterizing the parameters of facilities, devices, and installations that are part of critical infrastructure systems, or functions carried out by these facilities, devices, and installations, which condition the identification of critical infrastructure;

2) constitutes a component, system, or part of infrastructure that is essential for maintaining necessary social functions, health, security, protection, material or social welfare of the population, and whose disruption or destruction would significantly affect the Republic of Poland due to the loss of these functions;

3) its disruption or destruction would significantly impact at least two member states of the European Union;

4) cross-sectional criteria – regarding approximate thresholds established by the European Commission and the member states of the European Union – including:

a) the criterion of casualties – assessed in relation to the potential number of fatalities or the number of injured,

b) the criterion of economic impact – assessed in relation to the significance of economic losses or deterioration of the quality of goods or services, including potential ecological consequences,

c) the criterion of social impact – assessed in relation to the effect on public trust, physical suffering of individuals, and disruption of daily life, including the loss of essential services.

2. Critical infrastructure is considered potential European critical infrastructure after meeting all the requirements mentioned in paragraph 1 points 1–3 and at least one of the requirements mentioned in paragraph 1 point 4.[4].

I. The Director of the Government Security Center submits to the European Commission:

1) annually information on the number of critical infrastructures:

a) regarding which discussions have been held with the relevant authorities of the member states of the European Union about the thresholds for cross-sectional criteria enabling the designation of European critical infrastructure located on the territory of the Republic of Poland,

b) located on the territory of the Republic of Poland that are part of European critical infrastructure in the respective systems referred to in Article 3 point 2a, and the number of member states of the European Union that it affects;

2) every 2 years a report containing general data on the types of risks, threats, and vulnerabilities identified in each of the systems where European critical infrastructure has been designated located on the territory of the Republic of Poland.

II. The information referred to in paragraph 1 is classified.[5].

The Council of Ministers manages crisis situations on the territory of the Republic of Poland.

2. In cases requiring immediate action, crisis management is carried out by the minister responsible for internal affairs, promptly notifying the Prime Minister of his actions.

3. Decisions made by the minister responsible for internal affairs are subject to consideration at the next meeting of the Council of Ministers.[6].

Figure 1.3.1. Structure of the Government Security Center [7].

Figure 1.3.2. Flow of information between crisis management bodies and structures [8].

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