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2. The National Broadcasting Council shall issue regulations and, in individual cases, adopt resolutions.
Article 214. 1. The members of the National Broadcasting Council shall be appointed by the Sejm, the Senate and the President of the Republic.
2. A member of the National Broadcasting Council shall not belong to a political party, a trade union or perform public activities incompatible with the dignity of his function.
adopted by the Polish Parliament on December 29, 1992.
6. Sports events coverage may not be sponsored by entities referred to in paragraph 5 subparagraphs 1-3 and by (…).
4) electoral programmes or programmes directly related to electoral campaigns.
1. Public radio and television broadcasting organizations shall enable political parties to present their position with regard to major public issues.
2. The provision of paragraph 1 shall apply correspondingly to national trade unions and employers’ organizations.
3. The National Council shall determine, by a regulation, the manner of implementation of the obligations referred to in paragraphs 1 and 2.
1. Political parties and other organisations participating in elections to the Sejm, the Senate and local self-government shall be entitled to transmit election programmes in the public radio and television programme services on terms determined in separate provisions.
The provision of paragraph 1 shall apply respectively to the election of the President of the Republic of Poland.
its financing and the modalities for exercising one’s electoral rights .
Public broadc asters are under an obligation to broadcast programmes of political communication free of charge. Provisions for the criteria and the allocation of time are made by electoral committees. All broadcasters should eventually broadcast paid election programmes.
Specific treatment is prescribed for the publication of false information. Here a distinction is made between that information included in party electoral material and that published in the press. Each case is regulated in a different way.
§ 1. 1. Public radio and television broadcasting organisations shall reliably present, analyse and discuss standpoints represented with regard to crucial public issues by political parties, national organisations of trade unions and unions of employers.
2. Public radio and television broadcasting organisations shall fulfil the obligation referred to in item 1 in a manner which enables the presentation of diversified standpoints.
3. Public broadcasting organisations which transmit national programme services shall inform about the work of supreme organs of political parties, national organisations of trade unions and unions of employers with regard to crucial public issues.
§ 2. 1. The Polish Television Telewizja Polska S.A. and the Polish Radio Polskie Radio S.A. shall produce and transmit programmes enabling political parties to present their standpoints with regard to crucial public issues .
2. The said programmes shall last at least 45 minutes and shall be broadcast in Channel I of the Polish Television and Channel I of the Polish Radio once a week, between 4 p.m. and 11 p.m.
3. The Management Boards of the Polish Television Telewizja Polska S.A. and of the Polish Radio Polskie Radio S.A. shall divide the transmission time allocated for the programme amongst the entitled political parties in proportion to the number of votes obtained by them in parliamentary [Sejm] elections.
2) took part in the electoral coalition, whose district lists of candidates for parliamentary deputies collected, on a nation-wide scale, at least 6% of votes cast in a valid manner, in the parliamentary [Sejm] elections held on 23 September 2001.
of 2001, No. 79, item 857).
6. The decision concerning the manner of using the transmission time referred to in item 5 shall be made by the statutory governing bodies of the political parties. The governing bodies of the parties shall inform the Management Boards of the Polish Television Telewizja Polska S.A. and of the Polish Radio Polskie Radio S.A. about the changes in the use of the transmission time one month in advance.
7. The transmission time allotted to political parties which underwent a fusion after the elections held on 23 September 2001 shall be given to the part created as a result of the said fusion.
8. The use of the transmission time shall be accounted for separately for each calendar month.
9. The Polish Television Telewizja Polska S.A. and the Polish Radio Polskie Radio S.A. shall produce programmes in consultation with the plenipotentiaries of the political parties referred to in item 4. In case of a joint use of the transmission time by political parties referred to in item 4, point 2, these parties shall appoint a joint plenipotentiary.
§ 3. The Polish Television Telewizja Polska S.A. and the Polish Radio Polskie Radio S.A. shall produce and transmit a periodical current affairs programme dedicated to political events in the country.
§ 4. The Polish Television Telewizja Polska S.A. and the Polish Radio Polskie Radio S.A. shall provide current information regarding the work of the Parliament (Sejm) and the Senate in the programming form decided upon in agreement with the presidium of the Parliament (Sejm) and of the Senate.
§ 5. 1. The provisions of this Regulation shall not infringe upon prerogatives to transmit electoral programmes given by virtue of separate provisions to political parties or other organisations participating in elections to the Parliament (Sejm), the Senate, the Office of the President of the Republic of Poland and territorial self-government.
2. During the electoral campaign preceding the elections, referred to in item 1, the public radio and television broadcasting organisations shall be obliged to prepare separate programmes enabling political parties to present their standpoints.
3. The programmes referred to in § 2 shall not be transmitted during the period of transmission of electoral broadcasts.
§ 6. The National Broadcasting Council in consultation with competent programming councils shall periodically assess the fulfilment of the obligations binding upon the public radio and television broadcasting organisations under this Regulation.
television (official journal “Dz.U.” No 74, item 335; of 1996, No 10, item 59; of 1997, No 9, item 50; of 1998, No 25, item 146) shall become null and void.
§ 8. The Regulation shall take effect within fourteen days after its promulgation.
Concerning procedures related to the division of free broadcasting time, preparation, emission and information about emission time before elections to borough, county, and voivodeship councils.
§ 1. The election programmes shall be broadcast free of charge on regional and national channels of Polish Television ‘Telewizja Polska-Spólka Akcyjna’, below referred to as ‘Telewizja Polska’, and in regional programmes transmitted by regional public broadcasting companies, below referred to as ‘regional broadcasting companies’, and also on national programmes of Polish Radio ‘Polskie Radio-Spólka Akcyjna’, below referred to as ‘Polskie Radio’, during the period from the 15th day before the elections until the end of the election campaign.
§ 2.1. For the necessities of broadcasting the election programmes, the areas of regional programme transmission on Polish Television-‘Telewizja Polska’ are established according to Appendix 1, and the areas of emission of regional programmes by individual regional broadcasting companies are established in Appendix 2.
programmes in the electoral districts situated on the borders of the areas defined in the appendices mentioned in item 1, the National Broadcasting Council may allow the transmission of election programmes from the neighbouring area if it is justified by better programme reception quality.
§ 3. The Boards of Directors of Polish Television-‘Telewizja Polska’ and Polish Radio-‘Polskie Radio’ will divide the total election broadcasting time among all of the national stations within the limits of the total time granted for national stations to broadcast election programmes free of charge.
§ 4.1 The authorized representatives of the election committees shall present the requests for free broadcasting time to the authorities of the broadcasting companies defined in §7 and §8, not later than 22 days prior to election day.
3) the list of election districts, with the registered rolls of candidates for borough, county, and voivodeship councils, pertaining to the broadcasting areas.
election committee’s authorized representative for election programmes.
§ 5.1. The election committees entitled to broadcast on the same channel can present joint requests for a broadcasting time licence .
2. In the event of joint requests for a broadcasting time licence presented by two or more election committees, shared broadcasting time shall be conceded as a sum of the individual broadcasting times of each committee.
3. The committees presenting a joint request for a broadcasting time licence are responsible for appointing one joint authorized representative.
§ 6. Before dividing the broadcasting time, the authorities of the broadcasting companies mentioned in §7 and §8 shall call meetings of the authorized representatives, in order to provide them information about the proposed tentative schedule of election programme broadcasting time and to draw numbers for the order of election programme emission.
§ 7. The directors of the departments within Polish Television-‘Telewizja Polska’ and the presidents of the boards of directors of the regional broadcasting companies will divide the broadcasting time on the regional channels in proportion to the number of registered rolls of candidates in the area of emission of a given programme.
§ 8. The presidents of the boards of directors of Polish Television-‘Telewizja Polska’ and Polish Radio-‘Polskie Radio’ shall divide the broadcasting time among the election committees entitled to broadcast the election programmes on national stations in proportion to the number of lists of candidates registered by these committees in the elections to the vovoideship councils.
4) technical conditions which the election programme materials independently prepared by the election committees should meet.
§ 10. Materials for an election programme independently prepared by an election committee should be delivered to the broadcasting station 24 hours prior to emission at the latest.
§ 11. The election programmes shall be broadcast in blocks in which the order of emission of the election programmes of the individual committees is established by drawing, as mentioned in §6, with the participation of the authorized representatives.
§ 12.1. The broadcasting station required to emit the election programmes guarantees free registration of the presentations of the election committee representatives, candidates for membership on councils, or other information prepared by the election committees in the studio of the broadcasting station.
2. In order to record a programme, the broadcasting station guarantees the opportunity to use the studio for three times the length of the expected time of emission of the programme in question.
adopted for providing information about programme content.
§ 14. The regulation shall take effect upon promulgation.

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