Broadcasting law, case II GSK 741/09

July 13th, 2010, Tomasz Rychlicki

The Supreme Administrative Court in its judgment case file II GSK 741/09 held that the Polish Act of 29 December 1992 on Broadcasting – LOB – (in Polish: Ustawa o radiofonii i telewizji), published in Journal of Law (Dziennik Ustaw) of 1993, No 7 item 34, consolidated text of 19 Novemver 2004, Journal of Laws (Dziennik Ustaw) No 253 item 2531, with subsequent amendments, does not provide grounds to prohibit broadcasting at the same time, various local content in the concession decision on transmission of local bands. The opinion of The National Broadcasting Council on the prohibition of fission of broadcasts should not serve as the basis for justification of the decision.