TVP's annual report rouses supervisory board to recommend state's rejection

The supervisory board of TVP, the national television station, has advised the state, which owns the company, not to accept the annual report for 2003 compiled by the firm's management board. Although the supervisory board does believe the financial statement should be accepted (last year the station posted a zł.68 million profit), it is the statement on the firm's activities that it is unhappy about. The main reasons for this being, among others, the station's political bias and its evaluation of the quality of programs aired. Although Antoni Dragan, head of the supervisory board, said, "One might have reservations to program activities, but one cannot neglect the many achievements." Robert Kwiatkowski, who until recently headed the firm jointly with Tadeusz Skoczek, commented that the supervisory board was within its rights to make such a decision, but it needed a strong justification to do so. Even if the State Treasury goes along with the wishes of the supervisory board, it would have hardly any effect on the company or its management. (Rzeczpospolita, pp. A1, A5) M.M.