In Brief: Essilor opens new Warsaw laboratory; SAPARD; TPSA Netia

The global leader in the market of glass lenses, France-based Essilor, has opened a state-of-the-art laboratory in Warsaw. The company currently employs 52 people in Poland and plans to invest euro 15 million and to employ several hundred people by 2007. (Prawo i Gospodarka, p. 4) ... Poland is the only EU candidate country to have used 100% of its SAPARD funds designated for investments in gminas, said Agricultural Restructuring and Modernization Agency (ARMiR) head Aleksander Bentkowski. To date, gminas have filed 1,986 applications to ARMiR for SAPARD funding, out of a total of 2,122. (Rzeczpospolita, pp. B1, B2) ... TPSA is to pay a zl. 1 million penalty for failure to observe a decision of the Postal and Telecomunications Regulatory Office (URTiP) regarding co-operation with Netia Telecom Lublin. (Puls Biznesu, p. 9) M.T.