3) indirect benefits related to universal service provision.
4. The Minister competent for digitalization shall specify, by means of an ordinance, the
manner of calculating the net cost of the service referred to in Article 81 (3), guided by the
provisions currently in force in the European Union.
Article 96. 1. A designated undertaking may submit a request for the subsidy within 6 months
of the end of a calendar year in which, according to this undertaking, a net cost was present.
The President of UKE shall publish, without delay, on the UKE BIP website the information
that a request for subsidy was submitted by a designated undertaking, subject to paragraph 2.
2. A designated undertaking shall submit to the President of UKE the calculated net cost
amount as well as receipts and other documents containing data or information used as the
basis for calculating the net cost. The President of UKE shall appoint an auditor to analyse
this documentation.
3. The President of UKE, within 60 days of the request’s submission, shall verify the net cost
and, depending on the outcome of this verification, shall grant, by means of a decision,
a specified amount of the subsidy, or shall refuse to grant it.
4. The President of UKE shall refuse to grant the subsidy in the event of concluding that the
verified net cost is not a justified burden for a designated undertaking.
Article 97. Telecommunications undertakings which have revenue from telecommunications
activities higher than 4 million PLN in the calendar year for which the subsidy is due shall
contribute to the subsidy.
Article 98. 1. The President of UKE shall commence proceedings aimed at determining
telecommunications undertakings obliged to finance the subsidy and the proportion of their
contribution to the subsidy immediately having determined the subsidy due.
2. The President of UKE shall determine a uniform rate of percentage contribution for all
telecommunications undertakings obliged to participate in financing the subsidy, taking
account of the amount of the subsidy to be financed. The proportion of the contribution of
a given telecommunications undertaking in financing the subsidy, to be not higher than 1% of
its revenue, shall be determined proportionally to the amount of this undertaking’s revenue
from telecommunications activities in a given calendar year.
3. The President of UKE shall determine, by means of a decision, the amount of the
participation in financing the subsidy for a telecommunications undertaking. This decision
shall be immediately enforceable.
4. The subsidy amount shall be subject to the administrative execution of dues.
5. In the event of the subsidy amount being obtained from an undertaking as a result of
execution, the amount of expenses related to transferring the executed due to a designated
undertaking entitled to receive the subsidy, as well as execution costs, shall be covered by
a telecommunications undertaking obliged to participate in financing the subsidy, against
which the execution proceedings take place.
Article 99. 1. The amount determined in a decision referred to in Article 98 (3) shall be paid
to an appropriate UKE account used for money transfers from a telecommunications
undertaking obliged to participate in financing the subsidy to a designated undertaking
entitled to receive this subsidy, within 1 month of the day of receiving this decision.
2. Interest accrued on assets in the account referred to in paragraph 1 shall be added to the
amount of accumulated assets.