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The Macedonian Parliament amended the Law on Broadcasting in order to ensure a stable financing of the Public Broadcasting Service, Macedonian Radio and Television (MRT), which has been suffering from underfunding for years. The amendments proposed by the Government envisage an increase of the broadcasting fee from MKD 120 per month (EUR 2) to MKD 190 (EUR 3). Another measure planned in the Government’s proposal is an increase of the advertising limits for the PBS from 4 to 12 minutes per real programme hour including the prime time, which was until now reserved only for advertising broadcast by...

The latest amendments to the Broadcasting Law increase the number of members of the Macedonian independent media regulatory authority ‘Broadcasting Council’ from nine to fifteen. The parliamentary majority, established after the early elections this year, decided on this expansion of membership. According to the Broadcasting Act, the members of the Broadcasting Council are nominated by official proposers: the Parliamentary Commission for Appointments and Dismissals (3 nominations), the Inter-University Conference (3 nominations), the major association of journalists in the country (2 nominations)...

On 28 October 2010, the Macedonian Broadcasting Law was amended. After years of underfunding and dependence on grants from the Government to cover its running costs, the latest amendments to the Broadcasting Law should ensure independent and stable financing of the Macedonian Public Broadcasting Service (Macedonian Radio and Television - MRT). The financing model of the PBS, defined in the Broadcasting Law adopted in 2005 (see IRIS 2006-4: 17/30) included an obligation on MRT to generate a list of households and legal entities that are obliged to pay the broadcasting fee, and to collect this ‘public...

On 15 June 2010, the European Commission against Racism and Intolerance (ECRI) released its latest reports on France, Georgia, Poland and “the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia” (fYROM), adopted in the fourth round 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 2010-4: 1/3, IRIS 2009-10: 0/109, IRIS 2009-8: 5/4, IRIS 2009-5: 4/4, IRIS 2008-4: 6/5, IRIS 2006-6: 4/4 and IRIS 2005-7: 3/2). The main recommendations dealing with the (audiovisual) media and/or the Internet in these reports...

The Law on Broadcasting Activity, adopted in 2005 and once amended in 2007 by the Law on Amending and Supplementing the Law on Broadcasting Activity, was reviewed again in August this year by the Sobranie, the Assembly of the Republic of Macedonia. This review resulted in the Law on Amending and Supplementing the Law on Broadcasting Activity that came into effect on 19 August 2008 (Official Gazette of the Republic of Macedonia No. 103/08). Both Laws on Amending and Supplementing the Law on Broadcasting Activity are exclusively related to the functions of the Macedonian public broadcasting service,...