Ukraine

[UA] Law amending the Broadcasting Act adopted

IRIS 1996-6:1/18

Andrea Schneider

Institute of European Media Law (EMR), Saarbrücken/Brussels

In IRIS 1995-10: 10, we reported on a draft law of the Ukraine High Council of 26.04.1996 amending the Ukrainian Broadcasting Act of 21.12.1993. Since then, on 02.06.1996, the law amending the Ukrainian Broadcasting Act has been adopted.

The amending law redefines and supplements inter alia the provisions concerning the definition of basic concepts (§ 1), the jurisdiction of the State broadcasting bodies (§ 4), the national broadcasting council (§ 5), anti-monopoly regulations (§ 7), the structure of national broadcasting (§ 11) and the State broadcasting corporation (§ 12).

The amended Broadcasting Act increases the advertising/programmes ratio from 10 to 15% (§ 30). Foreign legal and natural persons are still prohibited from setting up broadcasting companies, although up to 30% foreign participation in broadcasting companies is permitted (§ 13).