In Brief: PGNiG; TVN shares; Netia; New car sales up 13%; Lepper

Deputy Treasury Minister Ignacy Bochenek said yesterday that the government intends to list the shares of the Polish Oil and Gas (PGNiG) on the Warsaw Stock Exchange in October 2004. He added that the Treasury will increase PGNiG's capital by zł. 2 billion. (Parkiet, p. 1) ... According to the president of ITI Holdings, Jan Wejchert, an issue of shares of a private television TVN will provide the group with financial resources to pay liabilities as well finance sector takeovers. He added that TVN will spend EUR 35 million on the purchase of news channel TVN24 from ITI. (Puls Biznesu, p. 4) ... In accordance with expectations, Netia has filed an amended version of its bid to buy telecom operator Tel-Energo. This information has been confirmed by the National Grid (PSE), Tel-Energo's owner.(Parkiet, p. 3) ... Between January-November 2003 the sale of new cars has increased by over 13% to 320,551 cars from 283,325 cars in the same period of 2002, said the car market monitoring company Samar in its latest report. "This very impressive result and the top-10 car producers did well among the figures," said the firm's representatives. (www.onet.pl) ... The Sejm's Presidium decided to exclude Self-Defense's Andrzej Lepper from the list of candidates to join the Rywin Commission. Earlier, the Commission's member, Jan Rokita from the Civic Platform (PO) announced that he had submitted a motion to the Sejm's Presidium requesting it to reject Lepper's candidacy. Rokita said that if Lepper joins the Commission, its work "will be a parody". (Gazeta Wyborcza, p. 4) A.Z.