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The Macedonian media regulation authority, the Broadcasting Council, adopted a Прирачник за оценување на медиумскиот плурализам (Guideline for assessing media pluralism), whose aim is to provide the Council with the tools required to adjust its decision-making process in order to foster media pluralism in the country. This document comes in response to the remark in the EU Commission’s Progress Report for 2012 where the Commission expressed “[...] widespread concerns about lack of pluralism and self-censorship [...]”. Moreover, the EU Commission points out that the intense governmental advertising...

On 24 December 2012, the Macedonian media regulation authority (Broadcasting Council) adopted the План за намена и распределба на терестријален мултиплекс (Plan for Designation and Distribution of the Transmission Capacities of Digital Multiplexers). The main goal of the plan is the safeguard and improvement of media pluralism in the country once the analogue television will be switched off in June 2013 (see IRIS 2012-5/32 and IRIS 2012-9/30). The current main piece of media legislation, Закон за радиодифузната дејност (Act on Broadcasting Activity) of 2005, neither regulates the digital terrestrial...

The new Legea Nr. 140 pentru aprobarea Ordonanţei de urgenţă a Guvernului nr. 111/2011 privind comunicaţiile electronice (Act no. 140/2012 on electronic communications) recently entered into force in Romania. The Act approves, with modifications and completions, the Government Emergency Decree no. 111/2011 with regard to electronic communications. The Act is set to transpose the EU legislation and to unify the diverse domestic regulations in the field. On the other hand, the Romanian Parliament rejected a draft which was intended to set up the State's common electronic communications infrastructure...

After years of debate between professional journalists, NGO’s, legal experts and governmental representatives and supported by the Council of Europe, the draft text of the Act on Civil Responsibility for Libel and Defamation has entered the Parliamentary procedure. The public discourse of the so-called “decriminalisation of libel and defamation” is multi-facetted: the national Government, which proposed the law, states that during the preparation of the draft text “the remarks of the Council of Europe expert Gavin Millar ... and the rich jurisprudence of the European Court for Human Rights” have...

On 25 May 2012, the Macedonian media regulatory authority, the Broadcasting Council (BC), adopted a Rulebook on the Procedures for Finance and Accounting, which sets the rules on the collection of the annual fee that each broadcaster must pay for its license, the so-called “Broadcasting License Fee”. The broadcasters are obliged to pay this fee directly to the BC. The new by-law is expected to create an environment of a non-selective approach in implementation of the Law on Broadcasting regarding collection of the fee for broadcasters’ licenses. The current Law on Broadcasting in Art. 60 sets out...