The Commissioner’s Office receives more and more letters from citizens complaining about a deterioration of their health due to the wind turbines’ influence, as well as about the wind farm locating and building procedures. During a meeting with dr. Bodnar, the residents of the Suwałki Region also expressed their concern about the safe placement of wind farms. The Commissioner has contacted the Minister of Environment, the Minister of Health and the Minister of Infrastructure and Construction on that matter.

The Commissioner has taken up the case of missing Ewa Tylman. Among other things, he asked the District Prosecutor in Poznań for information concerning the proceedings. He also asked for a clarification concerning the access of the aggrieved party to the case’s dossier.

The current law concerning the rights of transplant donors to a priority access to health care are incoherent. The Commissioner asked the Minister of Health to take legislative action in order to regulate the rights of this group of patients in a clear and uniform way.

A member of the Home Army, repressed for independence activities by NKVD, was killed in 1948 in the territory of Belarus, a dozen kilometres from the new Polish border. He fought in the same place where he was born and where he lived. However, his family is not entitled to reparations, because the soldier was not in Poland at the moment of death. The Commissioner for Human Rights contacted the Minister of Justice on that matter

The amendment to the civil service act passed on 10 December 2015 resulted in serious changes in the government administration operation model. The Commissioner for Human Rights referred it to the Constitutional Tribunal, questioning mainly the removal of provisions which used to regulate the access to higher positions in the civil service through an open and competitive recruitment.