Bank guarantees for companies from the Polish national development bank

Gwarancje bankowe z Funduszu Gwarancji Kryzysowych BGK

Country	Poland , applies nationwide
Time period	Temporary, 01 September 2022 – 31 December 2023
Context	War in Ukraine
Type	Other initiatives or policies
Category	Supporting businesses to stay afloat – Access to finance
Author	Jan Czarzasty (Warsaw School of Economics)
Measure added	05 September 2022 (updated 04 June 2025)

Background information

Bank Gospodarstwa Krajowego (BGK) provides funds to provide a guarantee for bank loans for enterprises and factoring contracts. The funds can be used to improve liquidity and invest. The loan or a factoring contracts in any currency are eligible.

The Crisis Guarantees Fund (FGK) was initially created in April with the budget of PLN 5.5 billion (€1.2 trillion).

Legal reference: Ustawa z dnia 12 marca 2022 r. o pomocy obywatelom Ukrainy w związku z konfliktem zbrojnym na terytorium tego państwa, art 21b.

Content of measure

Bank Gospodarstwa Krajowego (BGK) increased the budget of bank guarantees to companies by PLN 24.5 billion (approx. €5.48 trillion). The new total of the fund amounts to PLN 30 billion (€6.7 trillion). The budget will remain at this size until the end of 2022.

BGK will guarantee up to 80% of the loan, the maximum amount of the help per case is PLN 200 million (€44.7 million) and the maximum amount of the loan is PLN 250 million (€55.9 million). The maximum length of the guarantee is six years.

Medium and large companies are the primary targets of this measure and are eligible to apply for guarantees.

Updates

The following updates to this measure have been made after it came into effect.

12 July 2023

Initially, the end date of the measure was 31 December 2022. The applicability of the measure has been extended to 31 December 2023 because of long-lasting impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic and war in Ukraine.

Use of measure

No data to report at the moment.

Target groups

Workers	Businesses	Citizens
Does not apply to workers	Larger corporations	Does not apply to citizens

Actors and funding

Actors	Funding
EU (Council, EC, EP)	National funds Other

Social partners

Social partners' role in designing the measure and form of involvement:

	Trade unions	Employers' organisations
Role	Unknown	Unknown
Form	Not applicable	Not applicable

Social partners' role in the implementation, monitoring and assessment phase:

No involvement
Main level of involvement: Unknown

Involvement

Unknown.

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