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On 23 July 2019, the OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media (RFoM) sent the Prime Minister of Albania, Edi Rama, a legal analysis that examines a series of proposed amendments to Law No. 97/2013 on Audiovisual Media in the Republic of Albania and to Law No. 9918 of 19 May 2008 on Electronic Communications in the Republic of Albania. This communication is part of a long process of consultation between the Office of the Representative and the government during the long – and still ongoing – drafting process of the legislation. Despite the fact that there have been important improvements compared...

A group of owners of commercial media held a meeting with the regulatory authority, the Audiovisual Media Authority (AMA), on 11 June 2018, with the aim of discussing the commercial operators’ request to receive part of the licence fee allocated to the public broadcaster in Albania. The proposal was drafted by the Association of Electronic Media, an association representing the main commercial media owners in the country; present at the meeting there were directors and owners of two national stations and four local ones. The proposed amendment stipulated that a “broadcasting fund” would be set...

After six months of intensive work, the new EU-funded “Technical Assistance to Public Service Media in the Western Balkans” project was launched with a two-day conference on 26 June 2018. The project aims to strengthen the independence of public service broadcasters in the Western Balkans (Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo, FYR Macedonia, Montenegro and Serbia) and enhance their profile as public services. It hopes to achieve this through the development of suitable measures for improved funding models, the definition and implementation of journalistic standards and guidelines, and regional...

The Audiovisual Media Authority (AMA) approved the amendments made to the Broadcasting Code on December 2017. The Broadcasting Code was first drafted and approved in 2014 by the regulator. In 2017, the Council of Complaints, the body in charge of public complaints related to ethics in broadcasting programmes, started a revision process of this Code. According to AMA’s press release, this revision was necessary “in view of the swift development of the audiovisual media industry, the trends in programme production, as well as the way information and entertainment offered by audiovisual operators...

The Audiovisual Media Authority (AMA) issued a statement on November 22, asking television stations to stop broadcasting an advertising spot by a private insurance company. The regulator acted after receiving complaints and took the decision after watching the advertising spot. The advertising spot concerned the company SIGAL-UNIQA Group, or more specifically, an offer it had on private pension funds. AMA decided that the spot openly violated consumer rights “by providing them with information on this specific company only and showing contempt for the public pension insurance system in the Republic...