Kamil Adamczyk
Ministry of Climate and Environment
Chief Expert for Legal Affairs at Nuclear Energy Department, Ministry of Climate and Environment
Since 2014, he has been involved in drafting bills and other regulations necessary for the implementation of nuclear power in Poland. Co-author so-called Nuclear Investments Special Act, aimed at acceleration of licensing procedures for new nuclear power plants in Poland. He led the legislative process of key government strategic documents on the nuclear sector, including the 2020 Polish Nuclear Power Programme. He also drafted a number of administrative decisions on nuclear power plant investments in Poland, which were issued by the Minister of Climate and Environment.
Since 2015, Mr. Kamil Adamczyk has been representative of Poland in the Nuclear Law Committee of the OECD Nuclear Energy Agency in Paris, and since 2019 – member of the Legal Advisory Group of Nucleareurope (the European nuclear industry association based in Brussels). He is also the member of the International Nuclear Law Association. In 2023 he was also secretary of the Nuclear Advisory Committee to the Minister of Climate and Environment which was a forum for dialogue between the Ministry and investors of SMRs and large-scale nuclear power plants.
He has completed a number of foreign trainings, courses and study visits organised by the International Atomic Energy Agency. During these visits he became acquainted with the legal, institutional and organisational arrangements on nuclear power sector in the most advanced countries developing nuclear programmes (i.a. USA, UK, France, Japan, South Korea).
He specialises in the licensing process for nuclear power plants. Author of several scientific papers in this area. He is particularly interested in the possibilities of improving the licensing process of nuclear power plants based on good practices of other industries (e.g. civil aviation).
Graduate of law at the University of Silesia, diploma of the International School of Nuclear Law (joint project of the University of Montpellier in France and the OECD Nuclear Energy Agency), graduate of the postgraduate course on legislation organised by the Government Legislation Centre.
