The National Fund is the largest institution in Poland that cooperates with international financial partners and handles foreign funds designated for environmental protection. As a result of the National Fund for Environmental Protection and Water Management’s vast experience in handling European Union funds, it has been entrusted with the role of implementing institution for five priorities of the Infrastructure and Environment Operational Programme. NFOŚiGW is responsible for the absorption of EUR 5.035 billion in the years 2007-2013, mainly concerning tasks related to water and sewage management, water management, waste management, environmentally-friendly power production and guaranteeing co-financing for environmental protection projects and ecological education. NFOŚiGW also has the task of providing financial support for projects that will be realized under the EU’s new financial instrument - LIFE+.

In recent years, one of the National Fund’s tasks has been the coordination of 88 investment projects which, within the framework of the ISPA pre-accession fund and the Convergence Fund, received EUR 2.850 billion financial support from the European Commission in the years 2000-2006. The majority of the projects subsidized with monies from the National Fund are related to the construction or modernization of water treatment plants in cities and towns which have the greatest impact on clean water in Polish rivers and the Baltic Sea. The large-scale projects carried out in Warsaw, Gdańsk and Szczecin are among the largest in Europe to be subsidized by the European Commission and co-financed by NFOŚiGW. Furthermore, nearly 250 capital expenditure projects coordinated by NFOŚiGW, and carried out by enterprises which obtained financing from the European Fund for Regional Development (EUR 148 million) in the years 2004-2006, and co-financed by NFOŚiGW in the amount of EUR 50 million, have been completed. Another of NFOŚiGW’s tasks is the effective utilization of funds (EUR 135 million) which were transferred to Poland for environmental priorities from the Norwegian Financial Mechanism and EEA Financial Mechanism.