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On 18 October 2010 the amendments of the Law on the Provision of Information to the Public came into force. These are mainly related to the transposition and implementation of the Audiovisual Media Service Directive. The adopted amendments stipulate some changes in the scope of the activities of the Radio and Television Commission of Lithuania. The amended Law envisages that, as before, it will be the Radio and Television Commission’s prerogative to grant licences for broadcasting and re-broadcasting activities as well as to control the licensed activities. However, the Licensing Rules, which determine...

On 18 May 2010 Seimas adopted a new wording of the Act on the Funding of Political Parties and Political Campaigns and the Control of the Funding. The new wording of the Act will come into force on 15 September 2010. The provisions of the adopted Act are particularly important to broadcasters as they allow broadcasting advertising clips of political parties in radio and television programmes again. This was not allowed by the previous law (see IRIS 2008-8: 15/26). According to the amended Act such political video and audio advertisements shall not be shorter than 90 seconds duration. However, the...

In accordance with Art. 7(3) of Directive 2002/21/EC of 7 March 2002 on a common regulatory framework for electronic communications networks and services (Framework Directive), the European Commission commented on the definition of terrestrial broadcasting transmission markets adopted by the Ryšių reguliavimo tarnyba (Lithuanian regulatory authority - RRT) in a letter published at the end of February 2010. In its second round market review, the RRT had identified a total of seven markets as being susceptible to ex ante regulation. It distinguished firstly between markets for the transmission of...

On 20 January 2010 the Government of the Republic of Lithuania adopted a Resolution on the Order on the remuneration of expenses caused by the purchase of the equipment necessary to receive digital television. This Order was prepared as part of the implementation process of the programme for the switch-off of analogue television and the promotion of digital television in Lithuania which was adopted by a Government Resolution on 28 September 2008. With a view to the switch-off of analogue television in Lithuania on 29 October 2012 (see IRIS 2006-1: 17) the Government undertook an initiative to support...

On 22 December 2009 the Seimas adopted the Law on Amendments to the Law on the Protection of Minors against the Detrimental Effect of Public Information (Law) on the grounds of proposals put forward by the President. The aim of the amendments is to widen the field of application of the Law to all public information. The Law was supplemented with a new criterion according to which particular public information can be determined as harmful to minors if it promotes behaviour that is humiliating to human dignity, or sexual violence of minors and their exploitation, as well as sexual relations with...