APP - Application
ASP (Akademia Sztuk Pięknych) – Academy of Fine Arts
AWS (Akcja Wyborcza Solidarność) – Solidarity Electoral Action, right wing political party coalition in Poland in the years 1996-2001
BPO (kolegium ds. wykroczeń) - Board for Petty Offence
BWA (Biuro Wystaw Artystycznych) – Bureaus of Artistic Exhibitions, a network of state-run exhibition venues in the Polish People’s Republic located in major cities, realizing state cultural policy. Today some institutions – mostly the successors of those entities – still use this name
CPO (Kodeks Wykroczeń) - Code of Petty Offence
CSW (Centrum Sztuki Współczesnej) – Centres of Contemporary Art other than CSW ZU (see below, eg. CSW łażnia in Gdańsk, CSW Toruń)
CSW ZU (Centrum Sztuki Współczesnej Zamek Ujazdowski) - The Centre for Contemporary Art at Ujazdowski Castle in Warsaw
ECHR – The European Court of Human Rights
EHRR - European Human Rights Reports
GUKPPiW (Główny Urząd Kontroli Prasy, Publikacji i Widowisk) - The Main Office for the Control of the Press, Publications, and Public Performances, the Office of Censorship in the Polish People’s Republic
GW (“Gazeta Wyborcza”) – “The Electoral Newspaper”, the liberałleftist daily published in Warsaw, founded in 1989
KRRiTV (Krajowa Rada Radiofonii i Telewizji) – The National Broadcasting Council, the Polish broadcasting regulator
LPR (Liga Polskich Rodzin) – The League of Polish Families, radical right wing political party in Poland, founded in 2001
MNP (Muzeum Narodowe w Poznaniu) – The National Museum in Poznań.
MNW (Muzeum Narodowe w Warszawie) - The National Museum in Warsaw
NCK (Nadbałtyckie Centrum Kultury) - Baltic Sea Culture Centre in Gdańsk
OKOpS (Ogólnopolski Komitet Obrony przed Sektami i Przemocą) – The Nationwide Committee for the Defense Against Sects and Violence
OTK Orzeczenictwo Trybunału Konstytucyjnego Zbiór Urzędowy – Journal of Constitutional Court Judgements
PCC (Kodeks Karny) – Polish Penal Code
PCK (Polski Czerwony Krzyz˙) – The Polish Red Cross
PGS (Państwowa Galeria Sztuki w Sopocie) – The State Gallery of Art in Sopot
PiS (Prawo i Sprawiedliwość) – Law and Justice, nationałconservative political party in Poland, founded in 2001
PISF (Polski Instytut Sztuki Filmowej) – The Polish Film Institute
PO (Platforma Obywatelska) – The Civic Platform, liberałconservative political party in Poland, founded in 2001
PPO – Public Prosecutor’s Office
PRL (Polska Rzeczpospolita Ludowa) – Polish People’s Republic, communist state existing between 1945 (officially 1952) and 1989
PSL (Polskie Stronnictwo Ludowe) - The Polish People’s Party or The Polish Peasants’ Party, agrarian and Christian democratic political party in Poland, re-established in 1990
PZPR (Polska Zjednoczona Partia Robotnicza) - The Polish United Workers’ Party, communist party in power in the Polish People’s Republic from 1948 to 1989
RAT (Radykalna Akcja Twórcza) - Radical Creative Action
RPO (Rzecznik Praw Obywatelskich) – Ombudsman. The Commissioner for Human Rights, constitutional authority for legal control and protection
SB (Słuz˙ba Bezpieczeństwa, between 1944–1956 as Urząd Bezpieczeństwa) - The Security Service of the Ministry of Internal Affairs in the Polish People’s Republic (after 1956)
SLD (Sojusz Lewicy Demokratycznej) – The Democratic Left Alliance, post-communist left wing political party in Poland, founded in 1991
StGB (Strafgesetzbuch) – German Criminal Code
TK (Trybunał Konstytucyjny) - The Constitutional Court of the Republic of Poland
TOZ (Towarzystwo Opieki nad Zwierzętami w Polsce) – The Society for the Protection of Animals in Poland, founded in 1864
TVP (Telewizja Polska) – The Polish Television, Polish public broadcasting corporation
UD (Unia Demokratyczna) – The Democratic Union, liberal Christian-democratic political party in Poland, founded in 1991
USW (Urząd do Spraw Wyznań) – The Office of Confessional Affairs, communist central organ of state administration responsible for the policy toward churches and religious denominations, founded in 1950
UW (Unia Wolnoścci) – The Freedom Union, liberal democratic party in Poland, founded in 1994 out of the merger of the Democratic Union (see: UD) and the Liberal Democratic Congress (Kongres Liberalno-Demokratyczny, KLD)
ZChN (Zjednoczenie Chrześccijańsko-Narodowe) - The Christian National Union, catholic-nationalist political party in Poland in the years 1989-2010
ZPAP (Związek Polskich Artystów Plastyków) – The Association of Polish Artists and Designers, official association of professional artists in Poland, est. 1911