Editing Television licence (section)

=== Poland ===
As of 2023, the licence fee in [[Poland]] for a television set is 27.30 [[Polish zloty|zł]] per month, or for radio only is 8.70 [[Polish zloty|zł]] per month. One licence is required per household, irrespective of the number of sets. The fee is waived for people over 75.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://rtv.poczta-polska.pl/?action=Wysokosc_oplat_2023 | title=Abonament RTV &#124; RTV.poczta-polska.pl }}</ref> Public health institutions, nurseries, educational institutions, hospices and retirement homes need only one licence per building or building complex they occupy. Commercial premises need a licence for each set, including radios and televisions in company vehicles.

Around 60 per cent of the fee goes to [[Telewizja Polska]] with the rest going to [[Polskie Radio]]. Advertisements are allowed between programmes on public television but it is not permitted to interrupt its programmes for advertisements.

The licence is collected and maintained by the Polish post office, [[Poczta Polska]]. There is a major problem with licence evasion in Poland: in 2012 around 65 per cent of households evaded the licence fee (compared to an average of 10 per cent in the [[European Union]]),<ref>{{cite episode
 |title        = Dateline Warsaw – Poland's public media funding crisis
 |url          = http://thenews.pl/1/6/Artykul/81643,Dateline-Warsaw-%E2%80%93-Polands-public-media-funding-crisis
 |series       = Dateline Warsaw
 |credits      = Presenters: Peter Gentle
 |network      = [[Polskie Radio]]
 |station      = [[Polish Radio External Service]]
 |location     = [[Warsaw]]
 |airdate      = 5 January 2012
 |access-date  = 8 January 2012
 |archive-date = 9 January 2012
 |archive-url  = https://web.archive.org/web/20120109090512/http://www.thenews.pl/1/6/Artykul/81643,Dateline-Warsaw-%E2%80%93-Polands-public-media-funding-crisis
 |url-status   = dead
}}</ref> and in 2020, only 8 per cent of Polish households paid the licence fee. Reasons for non-payment include the [[opt-in]] system in which there is no effective means to compel people to register or to prosecute those who fail to do so. Licensing inspectors, who are usually [[Mail carrier|postal workers]], do not have the right of entry to inspect premises and must get the owner's or occupier's permission to enter. Also, the public media are frequently accused of producing pro-government propaganda and not being independent public broadcasters.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://rsf.org/en/poland|title=Poland: Growing hate speech {{!}} Reporters without borders|website=Reporters without Borders|access-date=20 March 2020}}</ref> Due to widespread non-payment of the licence fee, in 2020 the government gave a 2&nbsp;billion złoty grant for public media.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://notesfrompoland.com/2020/02/15/polish-ruling-party-grants-more-funds-to-state-media-described-as-propaganda-mouthpieces/|title=Polish ruling party grants more funds to state media described as 'propaganda mouthpieces'|last=Tilles|first=Daniel|date=15 February 2020|website=Notes From Poland|access-date=20 March 2020}}</ref>