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The Association of Electronic Media of Bosnia and Herzegovina (AEM BiH), the association of private/commercial broadcasters, called upon the country's 150 radio and television stations to interrupt transmission for one minute on 10 July 2002, in response to the new Election Rules for 5 October Elections, which AEM claims if applied would cost them millions of Konvertible Marks (KM) in lost advertising revenue. Namely, according to Chapter 16, Media, Article 16.1 of the BiH Election Law passed by the BiH Parliament, "During the sixty (60) days prior to election day, for the competent authorities...

In late April the Communications Regulatory Agency (CRA), which was created in March 2001 as a single regulator for Bosnia and Herzegovina in the field of communications (see IRIS 2001-4: 4), and the NATO-led Stabilization Force (SFOR) signed the Normalization Agreement on Radio Spectrum Resource Coordination in Bosnia and Herzegovina. This agreement transferred the competencies for the allocation of frequencies from SFOR to CRA as the sole authority in charge of frequencies in Bosnia and Herzegovina. SFOR will continue to coordinate radio-frequency spectrum for its own requirements. According...

On 23 and 24 May 2002, the High Representative issued a package of decisions providing a legal framework for three public broadcasters in Bosnia and Herzegovina, namely the Law on the Basis of the Public Broadcasting System and on the Public Broadcasting Service of Bosnia and Herzegovina (hereinafter "the Law on the Basis of the PB System"), the Law on Radio-Television of the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina, and the Law on Radio-Television of Republika Srpska. According to Article 3 of the Law on the Basis of the Sarajevo PB System, the Public Broadcasting System will be composed of: (1)...

In mid-April the Council of Ministers of Bosnia-Herzegovina (BA) again rejected the Draft Law on Public Service Broadcasting (PBS) in BA. If it had been approved, the next and final step would have been the BA-Parliament, the House of Peoples (Upper House) and the House of Representatives (Lower House). The Draft Law was rejected because of certain issues such as the appointment of members of the advisory bodies, and their mandate. The core provisions were not disputed. The Draft Law is composed of 77 articles, 2 parts, and the following 11 sections: General Provisions, Subscription Fee, Programming,...

The Office of the High Representative (OHR), responsible for civil implementation, as well as for final interpretation of the General Framework Agreement for Peace in Bosnia and Herzegovina, better known as the Dayton Peace Agreement (DPA), has decided to combine the functions of the Independent Media Commission (IMC) and of the Telecommunications Regulatory Agency (TRA) to create a single communications regulator - the Communications Regulatory Agency (CRA) (see IRIS 2001-4: 4). The Agency was formally established in March 2001 by the Decision of the High Representative. It is already operational,...