In Brief: LOT; GUS; Budimex-Ferrovial-Estudio Lamela consortium

LOT Airlines has been granted a loan of $79 million from a consortium of banks, which includes Citigroup, BPH PBK, Pekao, Bank Handlowy, Kreditanstalt fur Wiederaufbau, Bank Zachodni WBK, Nordea Bank Polska and Moscow Narodny Bank. The funds will be used to refinance the company's debts through buying out part of the bonds valued at $100 million, which LOT issued in 1998. (Parkiet, p. 7) ... The Main Statistical Office (GUS) has reported that the unemployment rate fell by 0.1% in June, and currently stands at 17.8%. This is a result of temporary employment in the building and farming sectors. (Puls Biznesu, p.5) ... The head of the Mazowieckie voivodship, Leszek Mizieliński, has issued an order regulating the area of restrained usage around Warsaw's Okęcie airport. This will allow the Budimex-Ferrovial-Estudio Lamela consortium, the contractor of Terminal 2 of the international airport, to apply for a construction permit. (Rzeczpospolita, p. B2) A.K.