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In September 2009 the Ministry of Culture prepared a Draft Edition of the Law on Provision of Information to the Public (Draft). Its main aim is the implementation of the AVMSD into national law. Besides this, there is a new provision essentially changing the currently valid must-carry rules. It envisages that network operators shall transmit all uncoded terrestrial public TV programmes. The present law obliges all network operators to transmit one terrestrial public TV programme and all uncoded Lithuanian national scope terrestrial TV programmes. According to this a broadcaster is considered as...

On 2 June 2009 the Lithuanian Seimas (Parliament) approved the Draft Amendment Law on the Protection of Minors against the Detrimental Effect of Public Information in the first reading. The Draft Law seeks to enhance the protection of minors against the negative effect of public information by expanding the list of criteria on the restricted published information as well as by establishing a system of visual means (indexes) used for categorising TV programmes. The Draft Law provides that public information which encourages gambling and participating in lotteries and other games, where the impression...

The Law on Funding of Political Parties and Political Campaigns, and the Control of Funding (see IRIS 2008-8: 15) envisages that political advertising and its sources of funding shall be identified and adequately separated from the rest of the disseminated information. Following the provisions of the Law, the Central Election Commission (CEC) and the Radio and TV Commission of Lithuania approved the Order of Identification of Political Advertising in Radio and TV Programmes in March 2009. The Order seeks to determine the necessary requirements for the identification of political advertising in...

In October 2008 a working group consisting of members of the Lithuanian Parliament ( Seimas ) prepared amendments to the Law on the Provision of Information to the Public. The amendments are mainly linked to the regulation of the activities of the Inspector of Journalists’ Ethics. The aim of the draft law is to specify the functions of the Inspector of Journalists’ Ethics, the procedure for the examination of complaints and the rules for the adoption and publication of the Inspector’s decisions more precisely. According to the provisions of the current Law on the Provision of Information to the...

On 10 June 2008 the LR Seimas (Parliament) adopted amendments to the Law on Financing and Control of Financing of Political Parties and Political Campaigns. The amendments came into force on 21 June 2008. The amendments are mainly concerned with the regulation of the publishing of political advertising in radio and television programmes. The amended law states that broadcasters under Lithuanian jurisdiction shall refrain from broadcasting video and audio advertising clips and films about political parties in their radio and television programmes. Furthermore, the provisions of the law forbid free...