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On 1 September 2005 the National Broadcasting Council (NBC) adopted a position on the Issues Papers presented by the European Commission, in the framework of the public consultation on the revision of the "Television without Frontiers" Directive. The adopted documents have been sent to the Commission. The NBC supported the basic premise that the new Directive should include regulations that will be technologically neutral and will take into account media convergence, and that a complex and integrated approach to the Information Society and to audiovisual media services was necessary. It also supported...

On 7 September 2005 the National Broadcasting Council (NBC) adopted a regulation on the procedure for announcing the competition on frequency reservation with a view to digital terrestrial broadcasting or retransmission of radio or television programme services. The regulation came into force 14 days after its announcement in the Official Journal. This regulation was issued on the basis of article 121 of the Telecommunications Law of 16 July 2004, that transposed the EC electronic communications regulatory package into national law. The Regulation specifies: 1) the procedure of announcing the aforementioned...

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...