Sejm appoints new UKE President

On September 14, the lower house of the Polish parliament, the Sejm, decided in a vote to appoint Marcin Cichy as the new President of the Office of Electronic Communications (UKE). Marcin Cichy has been a head of the analysis department at the Digitalization Ministry. He had already worked at UKE in the past when it was headed by the incumbent Digitalization Minister Anna Strezynska. In July, Magdalena Gaj, the previous President of UKE, resigned from the position. The President of the UKE is the national regulatory authority for the market of telecommunications and postal services. The President of the UKE is also the specialised authority in the area of equipment conformity assessment, including telecommunications terminal equipment and radio equipment.