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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...

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....