Search results : 120

On 24 September 2003, the Government sent a draft Act on cinematography to Parliament, which held the first reading of it on 10 December 2003. After the reading the draft was sent to the Commission for Culture and Mass Media, which began its consultations at its meeting on 6 January 2004. Taking into account that currently that the Act of 16 July 1987 (with subsequent amendments) regulating the cinematographic sector is not suited to the new market conditions, the government proposed a completely new, comprehensive draft bill. It is argued that it has as its main objective a change in the way...

As the previous draft of comprehensive amendments to the Broadcasting Act of 29 December 1992 (Dz. U. of 2001, No. 101 Item 1114, as amended), was rejected by Parliament on 30 July 2003, the Government has prepared a new draft, which is ­ in regard to its content ­ reduced in certain aspects. The Council of Ministers adopted on 21 October 2003 draft legislation to adapt the Broadcasting Act in line with the Directive 89/552/EEC, amended by the Directive 97/36/EC ­ the so-called Directive "Television Without frontiers". They also tailor national legislation to the principles underlying Community...

On 12 June 2003 the Chairperson of the National Broadcasting Council (NBC) sent a constitutive document entitled "Introductory assumptions of the development for digital terrestrial radio and television in Poland" to the Commission for Culture and Mass Media of the Polish Parliament. The document stresses the importance of taking decisive steps towards the development of digital terrestrial broadcasting in Poland. According to the report, the Polish broadcasting sector has reached a level that requires the switch-over to digital technology with the aim of obtaining new programming and market possibilities...

Since November 2001, the largest Polish operator of transmission networks, TP EmiTel, is operating an experimental DVB-T transmission in Warsaw. This transmission is being carried out in a single multiplex from Radio-Television Transmission Centre located in the Palace of Culture and Science in Warsaw. The multiplex distributes four television service programmes: two public ones (TVP1 and TVP2) and two commercial ones (POLSAT and TVN). The radio permission for this activity was extended till the end of 2004. Within this experiment technical parameters of the DVB-T test transmission, notably the...

On 9 April 2003 the Sejm ­ the lower chamber of the Parliament ­ adopted an Act amending the Telecommunications Law, which is based on a government proposal of 26 July 2002. The Act was subsequently sent to the Senat, the upper chamber of the Parliament. The Act aims at achieving a harmonisation with provisions of EC law, the EC telecommunications packet of 2002 and also the clarification of imprecise provisions of the existing Law. The Act provides for the obligation to separate the ownership of a stationary public telephone network owned by an operator with significant market power (SMP) and...