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On 13 July 2010 the Polish Government adopted the Guidelines for the Draft Act Amending the Broadcasting Act (in relation to the implementation of Directive 2007/65/EC). On the basis of these detailed Guidelines the Draft Act was prepared and sent on 30 July 2010 for intergovernmental consultations that have been already concluded. The AVMSD will be transposed into national legislation mostly by amending the Broadcasting Act. The responsible regulatory authority will be the National Broadcasting Council (NBC), which nowadays has responsibility only in respect of traditional radio and television...

On 6 August 2010 the Parliament adopted the Act Amending the Broadcasting Act and Licence Fees Act. The Act was sent to the President for signing on 9 August 2010. The Act refers to public broadcasters’ Supervisory Boards’ and Management Boards’ composition and the procedure for appointment (stressing the importance of contest procedures), as well as improving the mechanism of control over the realisation of the public service remit. The Act provides that the Supervisory Boards of the companies Polish Television and Polish Radio shall consist of seven members: five chosen by a contest organised...

The Standing Committee of the Council of Ministers is currently considering the draft of 27 January 2010 amending the Act of 26 January 1984 on Press Law (with subsequent amendments). It has already passed public and intergovernmental consultations. For a long time the need to establish a new Press Law regime has been pointed out. The existing provisions are out of date in many respects, inter alia they refer to institutions that no longer exist. The proposed changes are quite broad. The Draft includes inter alia changes in the definitions of “press”, “journalist”, “redaction”, amendments referring...

At the beginning of 2010 the Ministry of Infrastructure conducted public consultations on the Draft Act on launching digital terrestrial television (DVB-T), in which major industry stakeholders took part. After the results of the consultations had been published, the Draft was to be sent for intergovernmental consultations in March 2010. The aim of the Draft Act is to facilitate the complex process of launching DVB-T by providing for a legal framework. The emphasis has been put on the first phase of this process, within which all present analogue terrestrial TV broadcasters would start digital...

On 15 December 2009 the National Broadcasting Council adopted an amendment to its Regulation of 3 June 2004 concerning principles of advertising and teleshopping in radio and television programme services. The amendment aims to limit the practice of excessively increasing the volume, as well as the violent, abrupt change of sound levels during radio and television advertising and teleshopping spots in comparison to the programmes preceding the advertising break. Such occurrences infringe the comfort of the reception of programme services by the public and are the reason for many complaints by television...