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On 21 February 2012, the European Commission against Racism and Intolerance (ECRI) released its latest reports on Iceland, Italy, Latvia, Luxembourg, Montenegro and Ukraine, adopted in the fourth cycle of its monitoring of the laws, policies and practices to combat racism in the Member States of the Council of Europe (for commentary on earlier reports, see IRIS 2011-4/3, IRIS 2010-9/2, IRIS 2010-4/3, IRIS 2009-10/109, IRIS 2009-8/4, IRIS 2009-5/4, IRIS 2008-4/5, IRIS 2006-6/4 and IRIS 2005-7/2). With the exception of the Report on Montenegro, all of these reports contain sections focusing specifically...

The Montenegrin Parliament adopted the new Law on Electronic Media, along with the necessary changes to the accompanying Law on Electronic Communications, intended to stipulate the competences of the regulatory bodies in the area of electronic media. According to the new legislation, the Montenegrin Broadcasting Agency (renamed Agency for Electronic Media) shall continue to work as the Agency responsible for electronic media and the allocation of broadcasting frequencies by public procedures shall again be under its authority. This solution will clarify the confusion created by previous legal provisions...

The Council of the Agency for Electronic Communications and Postal Services decided to allocate all requested broadcasting frequencies to Vijesti television, after a two-year bureaucratic proceeding during which the TV station operated and broadcast its signal through cable operators. The available frequencies have been distributed to other interested broadcasters in Montenegro, too, thus ending the two-year vacuum in the needs and supply in the Montenegrin media market. Apart from Vijesti television which received all requested frequencies, one of seven was awarded to Television Pink Montenegro....

The new draft Law on Electronic Media, aimed at providing a regulatory framework and at stimulating further development in the electronic communications and audiovisual services market, has triggered controversial public discussion. The National Broadcasting Agency (NBA), defined as the crucial independent regulator in this sector under the previous Broadcasting Law, has criticized the new legislative initiative of the Government. The new Electronic Communications Law, enacted in 2008, abolished a series of the NBA’s competencies, most of which were not transferred to any other authority. This...

The Council of the Radio and Television of Montenegro and the councils of local PSB have adopted the Terms and Conditions for the Presentation of Candidates and their Programmes for the forthcoming extraordinary parliamentary elections, scheduled for 29 March 2009. According to the Broadcasting Law they were obliged to adopt and publish the terms and conditions of the representation of political parties, candidates and their respective programmes, not later than 15 days after the elections have been scheduled. The due date for publishing was 10 February 2009 and they are available on the website...