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On 2 March 2001 the High Representative issued a Decision creating a single regulatory agency for the communications sector in Bosnia and Herzegovina. The new agency, which is needed due to the convergence of transmission technologies in broadcasting and telecommunications, is the result of combining the competencies of the former Independent Media Commission (IMC) responsible for the broadcasting sector and the former Telecommunications Regulatory Agency (TRA), regulating the telecommunications sector. The new regulatory authority, named the Communications Regulatory Agency (CRA) and created...

The Rule of the Independent Media Commission (IMC) concerning the allocation of frequencies based on a competitive process came into effect on 1 October 2000. The Competition Rule applies to: - all regional broadcasters whose programs are directed towards audiences beyond the town or city of the broadcasters' location of registration with the IMC; - all broadcasters seeking to serve a community where the IMC determines that the frequency spectrum is overcrowded; - applicants not previously licensed by IMC. The allocation is based on a point system that evaluates the merits of the respective...

The Independent Media Commission (IMC) monitored 58 radio and television stations since the beginning of the election period. The municipal elections took place on 8 April 2000. Thirty-three of the broadcasters monitored were located in the Federation of Bosnia-Herzegovina (F BiH), and the remainder in the Republika Srpska (RS). In general, only news programming and news-related information were subjected to the monitoring. Additionally, so-called spot monitors monitored 16 broadcasters for both news and non-news programming in areas of general concern. Furthermore, IMC mobile monitoring crews...

On 1 March 2000, the High Representative (HR), Mr Petritsch, extended the mandate of the Radio-Televizija Republike Srpske (RTRS) Board of Governors until a date still to be determined by the HR himself. Mr Petritsch was forced to issue this decision because the Government of the Republic Srpska (RS) failed to introduce a new and comprehensive law on public radio-television of RS that would meet the standards laid down by the amendments that the HR had made to the former law by his Decision of 31 August 1999 (see IRIS 1999-10: 11). Since the deadline for the adoption of a new law expired at the...

On 17 February 2000, the Independent Media Commission (IMC) closed down EROTEL TV by disconnecting Erotel transmitters. It was the first time that the IMC had to physically enforce a decision to close down the operations of a broadcaster. The closure came after the IMC had in November 1999 required EROTEL to cease its operations because the broadcaster did not comply with the IMC rules and regulations governing provisional broadcasting licenses (see IRIS 2000-2: 4). EROTEL has also lost its legal basis for further broadcasting in Bosnia-Herzegovina. As a result of the IMC action, the frequencies...