4) public life-long education centres, practical education centres, youth education centres,
youth social therapy centres, special school and upbringing centres, special educational
centres as well as psychological and pedagogical clinics,
5) public in-service teacher training centres and public pedagogical libraries,
6) public libraries,
7) higher schools,
– hereinafter called “entitled units”– an undertaking designated, under Article 82 (4) or
Article 83, to provide the service referred to in paragraph 3 point 1 shall also provide network
connection in order to ensure broadband Internet access.
6. The Minister competent for digitalization shall specify, by means of an ordinance, the
required line capacity for broadband Internet access for entitled units, having regard to
increasing the availability of telecommunications services in the territory of the Republic of
Poland and the need to build digital competence.
Article 81a. 1. The President of UKE shall assess the availability, quality and price
affordability of services referred to in Article 81 (3).
2. The results of an assessment referred to in paragraph 1 shall be published on the UKE BIP
website in order to be consulted with interested parties, in particular with the end users,
consumers and telecommunications undertakings. Article 16 (2) shall apply to consultations.
Article 82. 1. If the results of an assessment and consultations referred to in Article 81a show
that any service of the services referred to in Article 81 (3) is not available or provided with
good quality and at an affordable price, the President of UKE shall announce on the UKE BIP
website a competition for an undertaking designated to provide this service in the area
indicated by the President UKE.
2. The President of UKE shall set the conditions of the competition, guided by the level of
telecommunications services development, end users' needs as well as the need to minimise
distortions or restrictions of competition in a given area with respect to the service which is
subject to competition.
3. A competition announcement shall specify:
1) the service the provision of which is subject to competition as well as general
requirements for its provision;
2) the area in which the service referred to in point 1 will be provided;
3) whether the decision referred to in paragraph 4 shall impose obligations referred to in
Article 91;
4) other required information referred to in the ordinance issued under paragraph 5.
4. The President of UKE, by means of a decision, shall designate a telecommunications
undertaking which has offered the lowest forecast net cost of providing this service to provide
the service subject to competition, taking account of that undertaking's economic and
technical capability to provide the service in question.
5. The Minister competent for digitalization shall specify, by means of an ordinance, the
required scope of a competition announcement, the scope of an offer for the provision of
services comprising universal service and the required documentation, as well as the
procedure for a competition concerning the appointment of a designated undertaking, having
regard to the need to ensure transparency and objectivity of proceedings.
Article 83. In the case there are no offers fulfilling the conditions of a competition for the
provision of universal service or particular services comprising universal service, the
President of UKE shall, by means of a decision, designate to provide the service subject to
competition, a telecommunications undertaking providing that service, taking account of that