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On 13 April 2011 the revised Rules on the Licensing of Broadcasting and Re-broadcasting Activities came into force. A new point is that according to the revised Law on the Provision of Information to the Public, which came into force on 18 October 2010, the Rules are to be adopted by order of the Minister of Culture upon the Radio and Television Commission’s (RTCL) proposal. According to the provisions of the former Law the adoption of these Rules was within the RTCL’s competence (see IRIS 2011-1/39). It should be noted that the prerogative to grant licenses for broadcasting and re-broadcasting...

On 1 January 2011 the Rules for the Registration of VoD service providers came into force. The Rules were adopted on 29 December 2010 by a decision of the Radio and Television Commission of Lithuania (RTCL). The Rules were prepared in accordance with the requirements for the implementation of the amendments to the Law on the Provision of Information to the Public, which was adopted on 30 September 2010 by the Saeima (Lithuanian Parliament; see IRIS 2011-1/39). The Law obliges the RTCL to set Rules for the Registration of VoD service providers and to register all such providers that fall under the...

On 12 January 2011 the Rules for the Implementation of the Requirements for Audiovisual Commercial Communication and Sponsoring of Audiovisual Media Services were adopted by a decision of the Radio and Television Commission of Lithuania. The Rules were prepared and adopted following the requirements for the implementation of the amendments to the Law on the Provision of Information to the Public of 30 September 2010, which transposed the provisions of the Audiovisual Media Service Directive (see IRIS 2011-1/39). Whereas the Law on the Provision of Information to the Public did not clearly specify...

Recently the Lithuanian Government adopted a Resolution on new Rules for the categorisation and dissemination of information, which might have a negative effect on minors. The new Rules were prepared to facilitate the implementation of the Law on the Protection of Minors against the Detrimental Effect of Public Information (“Law on Minors”) and came into force on 1 November 2010. According to the new Rules broadcasters themselves are obliged to assess and determine if the to-be-published information might have a negative effect on minors. In doing so they have to follow the criteria provided for...

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...