Unofficial consolidated translation
Legal status as of December 2017
Telecommunications Acti
of 16 July 2004
(Consolidated text Journal of Laws of 12 October 2017)
PART I
General Provisions
Chapter 1
Scope of the Act
Article 1. 1. The Act shall specify:
1) principles of performing and monitoring business activities consisting in the provision of
telecommunications services, the provision of telecommunications networks or associated
facilities, hereinafter referred to as “telecommunications activities”;
2) rights and obligations of telecommunications undertakings;
3) rights and obligations of users and radio equipment users;
4) conditions for undertaking and pursuing business activities which consist in the provision
of networks and associated facilities and in the provision of telecommunications services,
including networks and services intended for the broadcasting or re-broadcasting of radio and
television programmes;
5) conditions for regulating telecommunications markets;
6) conditions for universal service provision;
7) conditions for the protection of services users, in particular with regard to the privacy and
confidentiality;
8) conditions for frequency, orbital resources and numbering management;
9) conditions for data processing within telecommunications and the protection of
telecommunications confidentiality;
10) tasks and obligations in favour of national defence, state security and public order and
safety within the scope of telecommunications;
11) requirements that should be met by radio equipment;
12) telecommunications administration functioning, its cooperation with other domestic
bodies and European Union institutions within the scope of telecommunications regulation.
13) requirements concerning the facilities for disabled persons with respect to access to
telecommunications services.
2. The purpose of the Act shall be to create the conditions for:
1) supporting equal and effective competition within the scope of providing
telecommunications services;
2) the development and use of modern telecommunications infrastructure;
3) ensuring order in the management of numbering, frequencies and orbital resources;
4) ensuring that users derive maximum benefit in terms of choice, price, and quality of
telecommunications services;
5) ensuring technological neutrality;
6) ensuring that end users who are disabled persons have access to telecommunications
services equivalent to the level of access offered to other end users.
3. The provisions of the Act shall be without prejudice to the provisions on competition and
consumer protection and to the provisions of the Broadcasting Act of 29 December 1992
(Journal of Laws of 2017, item 1414).