The Ministry of Culture and National Heritage said the team – drawn from the presidential and prime‑ministerial offices, heraldry bodies, historians, graphic designers and the Fryderyk Chopin Institute – aims to produce a “comprehensive” bill regulating state symbols.
Specialists have long argued that current rules are vague. Graphic artists cite the absence of an official red shade for the flag, while musicians complain that the anthem, “Mazurek Dąbrowskiego”, is difficult to perform in its existing key.
The ministry intends to use much of the 2021 draft prepared under the former conservative populist Law and Justice (PiS) government.
That text proposed rearranging the anthem’s verses, introducing a second, state‑flag version bearing the coat of arms, gilding the eagle’s entire legs instead of only its talons and fixing the flag’s red to a uniform crimson.
At the time officials said the verse swap would “restore the song’s meaning”, but the Polish Historical Society questioned the need, noting the anthem has stood unchanged since independence.
No timetable for submitting the new bill to parliament has been announced.
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Source: Polskie Radio 24