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The latest amendments to the Act on Public Procurement (Законот за јавни набавки), which are, at the end of the year 2014, in second reading before Parliament, allow the state and public institutions to advertise in the media without the possibility of a public bidding for the benefit of competitors in the media and advertising markets. The amendments to Article 2 of the Act on Public Procurement widens the existing exceptions of public procurement for the so-called “political advertising areas”, allowing the government, as well as other state and public institutions and agencies, to use public...

The main goal of the amendments to the Law on Audio and Audiovisual Media (Законот за аудио и аудиовизуелни медиуми) which were adopted by the national Parliament in October 2014, is to provide support to the public and private TV broadcasters with funds from the state budget. According to the new regulation the national Government has to establish a specialised seven member commission with representatives from the Ministry of Finance, the Ministry of Culture, the Film Agency, the Agency for Audio and Audiovisual Media Services, the Central Government, the Public Revenue Office and the Ministry...

In July 2014, the national Parliament adopted in an urgent and shortened procedure addenda to the Law on Audio and Audio-Visual Media Services (Закон за аудио и аудио-визуелни медиумски услуги). The new amendments decrease the number of representatives of the Association of Journalists of Macedonia (AJM) in the Programme Council of the Public Broadcasting Service (Macedonian Radio and Television - MRT) from two to one. One seat in the MRT Programme Council - as envisaged in the amendments - should belong to the recently established second biggest professional association of journalists - Macedonian...

On 27 January 2014, the Закон за филмска дејност (Act on Film Activity), which entered into force on 1 January 2014, was amended in view of the funding of the State Film Agency. The Agency for Film, in addition to the funds from state budget will henceforth also be funded from other sources including: television programming services (TV broadcasters) at national, regional and local level; cable operators retransmitting television programming; Internet service providers; legal entities operating cinemas; legal entities operating in distribution, rental and sale of movies; and legal entities operating...

After controversial debates over the new Закон за аудио и аудио-визуелни медиуми (Law on Audio and Audiovisual Services) in January 2014 (see IRIS 2013-7/19, IRIS 2013-8/28), the Macedonian Parliament adopted amendments to the audiovisual regulation, which excludes monitoring and regulation of web sites. This is expected to improve the situation of freedom of the media in the country. One of the main critical issues concerned the question, which professional journalists' association would nominate a member of the Board of the regulatory authority, after a second professional association had been...