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The Council of the Regulatorna agencija za komunikacije (Communications Regulatory Agency - RAK) has made available the following documents for public consultation: a Draft Rule on Methods for Licensing and on Licence Conditions for Content Providers in the Audiovisual Sector, as well as a Draft Rule on Methods of Licensing and Conditions of the License for the Distribution of Radio and TV Programmes. The main aim of the new Rules is to establish separate regulations for both cable distributors of radio and television programmes, and radio and television content providers in accordance with the...

On 29 March 2007, the OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media presented a report on the situation of public broadcasting in Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH). The report was an outcome of the representative's visit to Sarajevo and Banjaluka in early February this year. The visit occurred due to the decisions of the Government of the Republika Srpska (Serbian entity within the post-Dayton BiH) to forbid officials of the state public television network, BHT1, to give any statements to reporters and journalists, and also to deny them access to a governmental press conference. The ban was attributed...

The Communications Regulatory Agency (RAK) of Bosnia and Herzegovina, responsible for the broadcasting and telecommunications sector, has adopted changes and amendments to the Advertising and Sponsorship Code for Radio and Television, in accordance with Article 39, Section 1, of the BiH Law on Communications (BiH Official Gazette, No. 31/03). Compared with the previous one the new Code includes some significant changes related to the advertising of certain products and services, as well as to the protection of minors. The Code strictly forbids advertising and tele-shopping featuring tobacco products,...

General elections for all state levels in Bosnia and Herzegovina were held on 1 October 2006. Before the pre-election campaign had started on 1 September the Communications Regulatory Agency (CRA) remineded in writing all public and private broadcasters of their obligation to cover pre-election activities, strictly respecting the BiH Election Law and Rulebook on Media Representation of Public Subjects during the Election Period, issued by the Centralna izborna komisija (BiH Election Commission - CIK). In covering pre-election activities broadcasters shall comply with the principles of balanced,...

New legislation aimed at creating preconditions for a sustainable public service broadcasting in Bosnia and Herzegovina is needed. However, the restructuring faces obstacles. The broadcasting sector of Bosnia-Herzegovina is complex, because it reflects the extremely complicated state structure that emerged from the Dayton Peace Agreement (DPA) signed in December 1995, and financially poor. It reflects a situation which applies to the media sector generally; thus, it is remarkable that, nevertheless, such a small and underdeveloped market provides such a high number of media output. During the difficult...