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Art. 54 of the Constitution of the Republic of Poland of 2 April 1997, last amended on 26 March 2001, guarantees everyone the freedom to express opinions and to acquire and disseminate information. Under Art. 14 of the Constitution, freedom of the press and other means of social communication are guaranteed. Art. 54 para. 2 prohibits preventive censorship of the means of social communication. Whereas the press does need authorisation according to Art. 14 of the Constitution, Art. 54 para. 2.2 stipulates that statutes may require the receipt of a permit for the operation of a radio or television...

On 27 October 2000 the Prime Minister designated a president of the Office of Telecommunications Regulation (OTR) for a five year-term. Established under the Act of 21 July 2000 on Telecommunications, the OTR and its statutory 16 regional units established in each województwo (administrative district) of Poland will become fully operational by 1 January 2001. The new authority, a regulatory body for the strategic sector of telecommunications, will be in charge of awarding licences for telecommunications operators, supervising and ensuring compliance with authorisation conditions, resolving interconnection...

Polish public television corporation Telewizja Polska SA (TVP) is strengthening its co-operation with the European cultural TV channel ARTE. The basic guidelines for co-operation between TVP and ARTE were originally established by an agreement signed in 1996. TVP thus became the first public service broadcaster in Central and Eastern Europe to reach such an agreement with the Franco-German channel. ARTE (Association Relative à la Télévision Européenne) was founded in 1991 as a consortium of European economic interests (GEIE) by its two equal shareholders ARTE Deutschland TV GmbH and ARTE France....

As a result of an amendment to the Ustawa o zmianie ustawy o zwalczaniu nieuczciwej konkurencji oraz o zmianie ustawy o radiodonii i telewizji (Unfair Competition Act of 16 April 1993), adopted on 16 March 2000, new regulations on comparative advertising have been introduced in Poland. Comparative advertising was previously banned as it was considered anticompetitive unless it contained information that was accurate and useful to customers. There was no more detailed definition of the concept of comparative advertising. According to the amendment, comparative advertising includes commercials in...

A draft of amendments to the Broadcasting Act 1992 adopted on 31 March 2000 by the Parliament provides for harmonization of Polish audiovisual law with European Union standards. In accordance with the provisions contained in the Directive on "Television Without Frontiers" some new legal definitions were added, such as the definition of sponsorship, teleshopping and surreptitious advertising (the latter is banned). Advertising issues were regulated as a whole in the law; several restrictions on advertising were introduced, some of them even stricter than those stipulated by the "Television Without...