In recent months, the Telecommunications Law and the Act on State Medical Rescue Service have been amended at the initiative of the Ministry of Interior and Administration, and on 25 January 2008 an agreement was signed with representatives of telecommunications operators, allowing for the location of a person calling the 112 emergency number.
The declaration of cooperation with the Ministry was signed by representatives of the largest telecommunications companies in Poland: Telekomunikacja Polska, P4 Sp. z o.o., Polkomtel S.A., Polska Telefonia Cyfrowa and Polska Telefonia Komórkowa Centertel Sp. z o.o.

In this way, another requirement concerning the functionality of the emergency notification system and the Single European Emergency Call Number 112 has been met. Already in the second half of the year, following a call at 112 number, emergency services will receive from the operator detailed information containing coordinates and visualisation (on the map) of the emergency location.
Polish efforts have been acknowledged by the European Commission, which in the new round of proceedings on the violation of provisions on telecommunications withheld the proceedings against Latvia and Poland and suspended its former decision on bringing the case to the European Court of Justice. Polish authorities informed the Commission that they had applied temporary solutions aimed at ensuring the emergency services access to information on the location of the caller. Poland has time till 2010 to fully implement the European Directive on the Single European Emergency Call Number 112.

Viviane Reding, EU Commissioner for Information Society and Media, stressed the significance of the Single European Emergency Call Number 112.
"The European Emergency Call Number 112, operating in the whole European Union, plays the key role in ensuring the safety of its citizens", said Commissioner Reding. "Information on the place where the caller is located is particularly important in the case of sudden accidents, participated by travellers. I am glad that this information is already available in Latvia, and the authorities in Poland are striving to solve this problem as soon as possible. Owing to this, the Commission can suspend the proceedings."

Information on the location of the person calling the 112 emergency number is not yet available in five EU Member States: the Netherlands, Lithuania, Romania, Slovakia and Italy. Moreover, emergency call number 122 is not yet fully operative in Bulgaria.