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April 24, 2026 / 17:09

5/2026 Filing by Agora S.A.’s subsidiaries of a claim for payment against the State Treasury

Regulatory Filing

The Management Board of Agora S.A. with its registered seat in Warsaw, in relation to regulatory filing no. 33/2025 dated December 31, 2025, concerning filing by Agora S.A.’s subsidiaries:  Wyborcza sp. z o.o., Gazeta.pl sp. z o.o., Grupa Radiowa Agory sp. z o.o. and Eurozet sp. z o.o., collectively, the “Companies”, of a motion to summon the State Treasury to a conciliation hearing, hereby informs that it received information that on April 24, 2026 the Companies filed a claim for payment with the Regional Court in Warsaw against the State Treasury (the “Claim”). The Claim was filed as a result of the failure to reach a settlement between the Companies and the State Treasury during the court conciliation hearing held on April 23, 2026.

 

The subject matter of the Claim is payment to the Companies of damages in the total amount of PLN 134,757,230 together with statutory interest for delay accrued from March 27, 2026 until the date of payment, incurred as a result of the failure of the Republic of Poland to implement Directive (EU) 2019/790 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 17 April 2019 on copyright and related rights in the digital single market and amending Directives 96/9/EC and 2001/29/EC (”Directive”), within the period from June 8, 2021 to September 19, 2024. The Companies seek damages for lost profits, specifically remuneration they could have received from information society service providers for the use of their press publications during the delay in transposing the Directive.

 

Legal basis: article 17, paragraph 1 of the Regulation of the European Parliament and Council Regulation (EC) No. 596/2014 of April 16th, 2014 on market abuse (Regulation on Market Abuse) and repealing Directive 2003/6/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council and the Commission Directive 2003/124/EC, 2003/125/EC and 2004/72/EC (Acts. Office. EC L 173, 06.12.2014).

 

Podstawa prawna: art. 17 ust. 1 Rozporządzenia Parlamentu Europejskiego i Rady (WE) nr 596/2014 z dnia 16 kwietnia 2014 r. w sprawie nadużyć na rynku (rozporządzenie w sprawie nadużyć na rynku) oraz uchylającego dyrektywę 2003/6/WE Parlamentu Europejskiego i Rady i dyrektywy Komisji 2003/124/WE, 2003/125/WE i 2004/72/WE (Dz. Urz. WE L 173 z 12.06.2014).

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