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Amendments to the 2022 Statute of Slovakia “On Media Services and on Adoption of Amendments to Certain Statutes” (the Statute on Media Services, see IRIS 2023-2:1/10) were adopted by the National Council (Parliament) of the Slovak Republic on 27 June 2024, and partially entered into force on 28 June 2025. Their purpose is to align national legislation with the Digital Services Act (Regulation (EU) 2022/2065). The amendments expand the mandate of the Council for Media Services (RpMS), the current national regulation authority (NRA) in Slovakia, beyond audiovisual media to include...

The Act on Slovak Television and Radio and on Amendments to Certain Acts was adopted by the National Council (the Parliament) on 20 June 2024 and promulgated on 1 July 2024. It effectively replaced the earlier Act on Radio and Television of Slovakia, No.532/2010. The Act changed the name of the public broadcaster: Slovak Television and Radio (Slovenská televízia a rozhlas – STVR) is the legal successor to Radio and Television of Slovakia (Rozhlasu a televízie Slovenska – RTVS) and took over all its rights and obligations on the day the Act was promulgated. The...

The Statute of Slovakia “On Publishers of Publications and on the Register of the Mass Media and Audiovisual Media, and on Adoption of Amendments to Certain Statutes” (the Statute on Publishing) was adopted by the National Council (Parliament) of the Slovak Republic on 22 June 2022, and enters into force on 1 August 2022. In particular, it regulates the activity of news web portals and online periodic press. Publishers of periodic publications (online and offline) and operators of news portals are to be registered by the Ministry of Culture of the Slovak Republic (Article 3). They...

The Statute of Slovakia “On Media Services and on Adoption of Amendments to Certain Statutes” (the Statute on Media Services) was adopted by the National Council (Parliament) of the Slovak Republic on 22 June 2022, and enters into force on 1 August 2022, and in part – on 1 January 2023 and on 1 January 2027. The Statute contains 244 Articles and regulates the activities of broadcasters, providers of audiovisual media services, operators of rebroadcasting, multiplex providers and video hosting providers, if they are registered, headquartered or reside in Slovakia. Suppliers...

On 28 November 2017, the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) delivered its judgment in MAC TV s.r.o. v. Slovakia, which concerned the fining of a broadcaster over a television programme’s commentary on the death of the late President of Poland. The case involved MAC TV, which operates two private television channels, and broadcasts the television programme “JOJ PLUS”. During an episode of the programme broadcast in April 2010, following the fatal plane crash in which the President of Poland, Lech Kaczynski, had been travelling, a commentary was delivered entitled “Compassion in Accordance with...