Bulgaria

[BG] The National Assembly does not accept CEM’s report

IRIS 2016-1:1/5

Rayna Nikolova

New Bulgarian University

On 29 October 2015 the National Assembly did not pass the activity report of the Council for Electronic Media (CEM), after the Assembly held a plenary discussion on the matter on 28 October 2015.

Pursuant to Article 39, para 1 of the Radio and Television Act (RTA), CEM has the duty to present a report on its activities for discussion at the National Assembly no later than 31 October for the first half of each year, and no later than 31 March for the second half of the previous year. In addition, CEM has to post the report on its internet webpage.

On 21 May 2015, the Committee on Culture and Media of the National Assembly accepted the activity report of CEM for the period of 1 January 2014 to 30 June 2014, as well as the activity report of CEM for the period of 1 July 2014 to 31 December 2014 with 12 votes “for”, 0 “against” and 1 “abstaining”. However, a few months later, on 28 October 2015, the National Assembly held a plenary discussion concerning CEM’s report from the previous year and did not accept it. The failure to accept CEM’s report will produce no legal consequences for the Council.


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This article has been published in IRIS Legal Observations of the European Audiovisual Observatory.