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The newly adopted Act on cinematography of 30 June 2005 came into force on 19 August 2005. However, provisions on deductions, being an important part of cinematographic production support system, came into force on 1 January 2006 (Article 19 of the Act). The new Law establishes an indirect support system, aimed at strengthening the domestic cinematographic film market, but it also provides additional rules for public service broadcasters referring to direct support. As established in this Act, Polski Instytut Sztuki Filmowej (the Polish Institute of Film Art) will be responsible for dealing with...

On 4 May 2005 the Council of Ministers adopted a Strategy for the switch-over from analogue to digital technology on terrestrial television. The introduction of digital terrestrial television (DVB-T) will be based on the standard EN 300 744 elaborated by ETSI. The model of accelerated conversion was described as the most appropriate for Poland. It envisages introducing digital terrestrial television region by region. In any region where DVB-T will have been introduced the simulcast period should be relatively short; in general it should not exceed 12 months. However, this period will be set more...

The European Commission against Racism and Intolerance (ECRI) recently made public five new reports as part of the third cycle of its monitoring process of the laws, policies and practices to combat racism in the Member States of the Council of Europe. Four of the country reports (Albania, Croatia, Poland and the United Kingdom) contain specific recommendations concerning the media. Following a precedent in some of its previous country reports (see IRIS 2003-5: 3), ECRI pronounces itself in favour of the adoption in Albania of self-regulatory codes “to combat reporting that fuels racism, discrimination...

On 3 March 2005 Seym, the lower chamber of Polish Parliament adopted an Act on licence feesfor the use of radio and television sets.The Act provides that persons possessing a radio or television set in a condition enabling an immediate reception of a programme service are deemed to use that set. In general, licence fees shall be paid for every radio and television set. But under certain circumstances only one fee has to be paid, irrespective of the number of radio and television sets used. So several persons in the same household have to pay only once. This does not change if they have also a radio...

On 20 December 2004 the President of the Telecommunications and Post Regulatory Office (TPRO) announced a decision to launch a formal procedure to determine whether the market of broadcasting transmission services to deliver broadcast content to end users is effectively competitive. In this decision he is following the provisions of the Telecommunications Law of 16 July 2004, which implements the European Community legal framework “On electronic communication” of 2002 (see IRIS 2004-8: 11), and the Regulation of 25 October 2004 on determining relevant product and service markets. These regulations...