Telecom bill - finally law
President Alexander Kwasniewski signed the country's new telecommunications law on Aug. 15, the cut-off date for his signature, said Krystyna Milewska of the information bureau of the president's chancellery.
Kwasniewski was delayed with signing the law due to his recent appearance in a Warsaw vetting court on allegations that he was an informant for Poland's communist-era secret police. He was cleared of the allegations on Aug. 10. The president's official summer vacation during August was further cause for the delay.
The new telecommunications law will go into effect on Jan. 1, 2001. The law was created to harmonize Poland's telecom regulatory system with the policies of the European Union by ensuring a fully liberalized and transparent market. Within the next few days, the text of the law will appear in the Dziennik Polski, the government's legal journal, Milewska said, although she could not give a specific publication date.
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