PSE plans restructuring and appointment of new head

National grid company Polskie Sieci Elektroenergetyczne (PSE) will soon be launching a tender for a consultant to advise on its restructuring. The main objective of the plan is to create an independent operator of the grid system that, unlike PSE, does not have a role as an energy supplier. Analysts questioned by Puls Biznesu advise the company also to withdraw from its non-energy related activities. Among its other interests, PSE operates on the telecoms market through Polkomtel and in the media through Telewizja Familijna. Meanwhile, PSE will soon announce the appointment of a new president, with Stanislaw Dobrzanski, a former Defense Minister from the Polish Peasants Party (PSL), the most likely candidate. "I've had no links to the energy sector until now, but I'm not afraid of managing a company like PSE," Dobrzanski said. "I've had the chance to manage even bigger ventures, quite successfully for a humanist." PSE is Poland's third biggest company in terms of revenues, which in 2000 reached zl.13.7 billion. (Puls Biznesu, p. 7) T.J.