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According to reports the Banjaluka Municipality Court (Court of First Instance) decided on the case of Milorad Dodik v. Federal Television (FTV), on 8 August 2011, ordering FTV - more precisely the editor-in-chief of the political magazine programme “60 minutes” and its two reporters - to pay jointly KM 5,000 (approximately EUR 2,500) plus interest charged as a penalty for tardiness, and procedural costs of KM 3,300. At the time of lodging this civil suit the claimant, Mr. Milorad Dodik, was acting as Prime Minister of the Republika Srpska (RS), an entity within Bosnia and Herzegovina. His complaint...

On 26 April 2011 the BHRT’s (Radio and Television of Bosnia and Herzegovina) Governing Board - composed of four appointed members - adopted amendments to the BHRT Statute. The Statute now entrusts the Board with full editorial and managerial control over the broadcaster, including the prior approval of programmes and the recruitment of editors, which actually should be the role of the Director General. The OSCE Representative for the Media criticised these developments as “a further indication of the crisis and stalled reform process of the public service broadcasting system in Bosnia and Herzegovina,...

On 11 April 2011, the Regulatorna agencija za komunikacije (Communications Regulatory Agency) launched a public consultation on several revised regulatory documents, most prominent of which are the Draft Code on Audiovisual Commercial Communications and Commercial Communications in Radio Media Services and the Draft Code on Audiovisual and Radio Media Content. The revision principally aims at bringing the existing regulation into line with the EU Audiovisual Media Services Directive (AVMSD). A two-tiered approach to the regulation of audiovisual media content has been established. In addition,...

On 17 March 2011, Dunja Mijatovic, the OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media, presented the regular report to the OSCE Permanent Council, the organisation’s main decision-making body. The report consists of overviews of issues raised in the participating countries, activities of the Representative in the last reporting period and planned activities for the next reporting period. A large part of the report consists of the analysis of issues raised in 56 of the OSCE participating States. The report touches upon several issues concerning media freedom, inter alia, media pluralism, editorial...

On 8 February 2011, the European Commission against Racism and Intolerance (ECRI) released its latest reports on Armenia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Monaco, Spain and Turkey, 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 2010-9/2, IRIS 2010-4/3, IRIS 2009-10/109, IRIS 2009-8/4, IRIS 2009-5/3, IRIS 2008-4/5, IRIS 2006-6/4 and IRIS 2005-7/2). In respect of Armenia, ECRI recommends that the national authorities promote: (i) “without encroaching on the independence...