On Thursday, September 19, 2024, Warsaw District Court, XXVI Commercial Division accepted the appeal of the Telewizja Polska trustee in full. Thus, it annulled Maciej Świrski’s decision of March this year on imposing a fine on Daniel Gorgosz in the amount of PLN 145,000. PLN for alleged failure to provide information.
In March of this year, we reported that the chairman of the National Broadcasting Council had punished Gorgosz, concluding that he had failed to provide him with information about the state of the company. Świrski stated that the legal basis for imposing a sanction is the provisions of the Broadcasting Act.
The court accepted the appeal of the TVP trustee
– Daniel Gorgosz learned about the issuance of this decision by the chairman of the National Broadcasting Council via the Internet. Maciej Świrski reported on the sentence imposed on the liquidator of Telewizja on the X website, where he emphasized that the sentence was the result of “persistent refusal to comply with the obligations arising from the Broadcasting Act”. He also informed the public that the attitude displayed by Daniel Gorgosz is “unacceptable in a democratic state governed by the rule of law”, reads a statement from TVP.
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Daniel Gorgosz previously indicated in a statement sent to PAP that “the decision on the penalty has not yet been delivered to the liquidator of the Company. It is therefore surprising that the chairman of the National Broadcasting Council published its content on a social network before it was delivered to the main interested party. It is clear that, after formally receiving it and reading its content in detail, the liquidator will take the appropriate legal steps to appeal this decision, although he is convinced that in this case it is not a question of any persistent refusal to comply with the obligations provided for in the Broadcasting Act, but this The Chairman of the National Broadcasting Council (KRRiT) has repeatedly and unjustifiably called on the Company to submit documents and information, exceeding its statutory competences and powers.
In its oral justification of the sentence, the District Court found the decision deficient, emphasized the lack of grounds for the president of the National Broadcasting Council to make the demand information requested under art. 10 section 2 of the Broadcasting Act, and suspended the execution of the decision until the final conclusion of the proceedings. The judgment is not final.
