When reversing in this situation, are you required to hold back if your movement might force the pedestrian to stop?

In the video, you have stopped on a square paved with paving blocks and intend to reverse; right behind your car, along a lawn with trees, a man in a light-coloured shirt is approaching from the left. When reversing, you are obliged to refrain from moving if this could force the pedestrian to stop. The answer is: yes.

The Road Traffic Act states that when reversing, the driver of a vehicle is obliged to give way to another vehicle or road user and to exercise particular caution, and in particular to check that the manoeuvre will not endanger or obstruct traffic and to make sure that there is no obstacle behind the vehicle; if this is difficult, the driver must get help from another person. Giving way means refraining from movement that would force another road user to change direction or significantly change speed - for a pedestrian, this means stopping, slowing down or speeding up. When reversing, your visibility is at its worst: a pedestrian behind the car disappears into the blind spot, and a child cannot be seen at all. That is why, before you move backwards, you look in the mirrors, over your shoulder and at the camera, and if the pedestrian is close to your reversing path, you wait until he has passed.

Legal basis: Art. 23 para. 1 point 3 and Art. 2 point 23 of the Road Traffic Act (Prawo o ruchu drogowym)