Modification of the licence conditions
Applications for modifying licences for terrestrial broadcasting of radio or television programmes may be submitted by mail or delivered to the KRRiT’s mail room no. 11 (at Skwer Kardynała Wyszyńskiego 9 in Warsaw).
Unless the licence modification involves extension of the licence for terrestrial broadcast by a new broadcasting station or extension of the licence by the right to distribute the programme by means of a digital terrestrial multiplex broadcast, the application does not require Announcement by the KRRiT’s Chairman.
The application should describe the requested modification (and specify the section in question plus provide the new suggested wording), and contain justification and the necessary documentation.
From the application to the KRRiT Chairman’s decision
- A submitted application is recorded and entered in the Regulatory Department’s data base.
- Once the KRRiT Office issues its opinion on the contents of the application, the National Broadcasting Council concludes the procedure by adopting a resolution.
- If any modifications of the technical conditions of broadcasting are necessary, the resolution is forwarded to the President of the Office of Electronic Communications, who issues a decision approving the technical aspects of the resolution.
- The KRRiT’s Chairman issues his decision.
A fee is collected in the event of any changes resulting from the increase in the population receiving the signal, in the limit of commercials or any other changes lifting any discounts that pertained to the previously calculated licence fee.
The fees and charges calculation method is set out in the KRRiT’s regulation on the fees and charges for awarding licences for radio & television programmes distribution and method of their calculation, dated 4 December 2012 (Journal of Laws item 1370): go to page with legal acts.
The number of inhabitants within the programme signal reception shall be calculated following the KRRiT’s regulation on the technical methods of determining the programme signal reception within the area covered by the terrestrial broadcast distribution, dated 15 November 2012 (Journal of Laws item 1284): go to page with legal acts on the licence process.
Information on the applications and pending procedures can be obtained under:
+48 22 597 30 92 – Ms. Ewa Hernik (technical changes)
+48 22 597 31 03 – Ms. Marzena Sobolewska-Pawelec (transfer of rights)