This is an announcement for the paper “Banach spaces of linear operators and homogeneous polynomials without the approximation property” by Sergio A. Perez. Abstract: We present many examples of Banach spaces of linear operators and homogeneous polynomials without the approximation property, thus improving results of Dineen and Mujica [11] and Godefroy and Saphar [13]. The paper may be downloaded from the archive by web browser from URL http://arxiv.org/abs/1603.05489