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Monitoring the broadcasters' violations of programme standards, the National Broadcasting Council of Poland (NBC) voiced its criticism concerning the "Big Brother" show and other shows following a similar format, arguing that they may be socially harmful. In its opinion these broadcasts may have negative effect on the behaviour of some viewers. The Council announced in its Standpoint of 22 March 2001 that it would be particularly scrupulous in examining whether such reality show programmes comply with the provisions of the Broadcasting Act. On 18 July 2001, after the initial series of episodes...

On 13 June 2001, the Polish Committee for European Integration adopted amendments to the Broadcasting Act, which were accepted by the Council of Ministers on 29 June 2001. The draft is designed to transpose Directive 89/552/EEC on the coordination of certain provisions laid down by law, regulation or administrative action in Member States concerning the pursuit of television broadcasting activities, as amended by the Directive 97/36/EC (The Directive "Television Without Frontiers"), in the scope of jurisdiction, definition of European works and European quotas. The Broadcasting Act had been amended...

On 19 June 2001 the National Broadcasting Council issued a decision to withdraw its licence no. 197/96-T granted to Polska Korporacja Telewizyjna (PKT) for terrestrial transmission. On 10 May 2001 the Chairman of the National Broadcasting Council of Poland addressed a letter to PKT, a Polish licensee who transmits a television programme under the name of CANAL+ Polska, in which he asked for an explanation concerning the licensee's fulfilment of technical requirements contained in item XII of the aforementioned licence. The terms specified in the item mentioned above oblige the broadcaster to transmit...

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...