EdLaw
Poland — Prawo komunikacji elektronicznej (art. 398–400)
The Act of 12 July 2024 — Prawo komunikacji elektronicznej replaced Prawo telekomunikacyjne and carries Poland's ePrivacy transposition. Curated here are the provisions every online EdTech product touches: unsolicited electronic marketing (art. 398), the cookie rule (art. 399) and the consent standard (art. 400).
Fact text is Polish (authentic language); this README is curation.
Applicability to EdTech
- The cookie rule: storing information or accessing information already stored on a subscriber's or end-user's terminal equipment requires prior clear information (purpose; how to control it via software settings) and consent, and must not change the device's configuration (art. 399 ust. 1); consent may be expressed via software settings or service configuration (ust. 2). Strictly-necessary exemptions mirror ePrivacy: transmission, or a service explicitly requested by the user (ust. 3) — an analytics or tracking cookie in a learning platform needs consent; a session/login cookie does not.
- Installing software on user devices (e.g. an agent or app component) carries its own information-and-consent conditions, including telling the user how to remove it (art. 399 ust. 4).
- Marketing e-mail/telephony needs prior consent: using automatic calling systems or terminal equipment to send commercial information, including direct marketing, is prohibited without prior consent (art. 398 ust. 1); doing it anyway is an act of unfair competition (ust. 4).
- Consent standard = GDPR: obtaining consent follows the data-protection rules (art. 400) — freely given, specific, informed, withdrawable.
Contents
| Document | Covers |
|---|---|
| COOKIES-I-MARKETING.md | PKE art. 398 (marketing bezpośredni), art. 399 (cookies/urządzenie końcowe), art. 400 (zgoda) |
Scope note: the PKE's telecoms-regulatory bulk (spectrum, operators, UKE) is out of corpus scope.
Enforcement
Prezes Urzędu Komunikacji Elektronicznej (UKE) for PKE duties; consent/data aspects intersect with PUODO.
Licence
The corpus reproduces selected articles of the ustawa Prawo komunikacji elektronicznej from its published text in Dziennik Ustaw, served by the Sejm ELI API.
Polish copyright law places normative acts and official materials outside copyright. Art. 4 ustawy o prawie autorskim i prawach pokrewnych (ISAP — tekst jednolity Dz.U. 2025 poz. 24, read 2026-10-01 in the official PDF served by the Sejm ELI API) provides: "Nie stanowią przedmiotu prawa autorskiego: 1) akty normatywne lub ich urzędowe projekty; 2) urzędowe dokumenty, materiały, znaki i symbole;"
Conditions: none attach to the statute text, because no copyright subsists in it. The corpus still identifies its source: each fact document names its source in its opening citation line and in its Meta section, and Sources here links the official text (ISAP and the Sejm ELI API). The changes (the selection of provisions, the Markdown layout and the added anchors) are described in Meta. The corpus does not claim that the publisher endorses it, and only the officially promulgated text is authentic.
Related
- EU ePrivacy Directive — the transposed instrument
- UODO — the consent standard art. 400 points at