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The Standing Committee of the Council of Ministers is currently considering the draft of 27 January 2010 amending the Act of 26 January 1984 on Press Law (with subsequent amendments). It has already passed public and intergovernmental consultations. For a long time the need to establish a new Press Law regime has been pointed out. The existing provisions are out of date in many respects, inter alia they refer to institutions that no longer exist. The proposed changes are quite broad. The Draft includes inter alia changes in the definitions of “press”, “journalist”, “redaction”, amendments referring...

At the beginning of 2010 the Ministry of Infrastructure conducted public consultations on the Draft Act on launching digital terrestrial television (DVB-T), in which major industry stakeholders took part. After the results of the consultations had been published, the Draft was to be sent for intergovernmental consultations in March 2010. The aim of the Draft Act is to facilitate the complex process of launching DVB-T by providing for a legal framework. The emphasis has been put on the first phase of this process, within which all present analogue terrestrial TV broadcasters would start digital...

On 15 December 2009 the National Broadcasting Council adopted an amendment to its Regulation of 3 June 2004 concerning principles of advertising and teleshopping in radio and television programme services. The amendment aims to limit the practice of excessively increasing the volume, as well as the violent, abrupt change of sound levels during radio and television advertising and teleshopping spots in comparison to the programmes preceding the advertising break. Such occurrences infringe the comfort of the reception of programme services by the public and are the reason for many complaints by television...

A Memorandum of Understanding on mutual co-operation and exchange of information between the Czech Council for Radio and TV Broadcasting, the Hungarian National Radio and TV Commission, the Polish National Broadcasting Council, the Romanian National Audiovisual Council, the Serbian Republic Broadcasting Agency and the Slovak Council for Broadcasting and Retransmission was signed on 10 December 2009 in Prague. Each signatory shall prepare a brief summary of the relevant legislation in the respective country for the regulation of the content of and advertising in TV and radio broadcasts. The purpose...

On 4 November 2009 the Constitutional Tribunal assessed a motion of the Polish President to examine the conformity of certain provisions of the Act of 13 June 2008 amending the Act of 21 April 2005 on Licence Fees with the Constitution. The motion relates to provisions enlarging significantly the group of persons being exempt from the duty to pay licence fees. Concerns have been expressed that this might infringe the principle of legal security and the rule of law. Previously the following persons were exempted from the payment of licence fees: 1) persons who have been adjudged to: a) be classified...