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On 3 March 2004 the Slovenian government approved changes to the media act for first reading in the Parliament. It aims at the creation of conditions for media pluralism and the harmonisation of the sector with the acquis communautaire. The changes to the act were also necessary due to a new telecommunications bill. The changes shall improve the system of approving applications for more than a 20-percent ownership stake in print media, in line with the goal of maintaining media pluralism. The changes shall also enable the media to access public information and request access to non-public information...

The South Eastern Europe Cinema Network (SEE) was set up in 2000 on the initiative of the Greek Film Centre (a state-owned organisation attached to the Greek Ministry of Culture). It promotes and supports the national film industry of eleven Southeast European states (Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Greece, Croatia, “the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia”, Romania, Serbia and Montenegro, Slovenia, Turkey, Cyprus). The aim is to provide support for the development, production and advertising of the member states’ films both within and outside the network. A support fund for co-productions...

A number of Member States of the Council of Europe have either signed or ratified treaties of relevance to the audiovisual sector since the publication in IRIS 2002-5 of the table of signatures and ratifications of such treaties. - On 14 May, the Netherlands became the eighth country to accede to the European Convention on the Legal Protection of Services based on, or consisting of, Conditional Access (see IRIS 2000-9: 3). Having signed this Convention on 24 January 2001, Romania proceeded to become the first country to ratify it on 26 August 2002. The Convention will enter into force upon ratification...

In order to give effect to the new Telecommunications Act (see IRIS 2001-5: 16) and in particular Article 156 of the Act, the Government of the Republic of Slovenia established the Agencija za telekomunikacije in radiodifuzijo RS, the Telecommunications and Broadcasting Agency of the Republic of Slovenia by a decree that came into force on 21 July 2001. The new Telecommunications and Broadcasting Agency is an independent body, financed from fees collected from telecommunication and broadcasting operators. The agency has powers to manage the telecommunications and broadcasting spectrum, settle...

On 10 April 2001, the Drzavni zbor (Parliament) passed the new Zakon o telekomunikacijah (Law on Telecommunications). The Act aims to liberalize the telecommunications market by privatising the national leading and state-owned telecommunications operator, the Telekom. However, the most important change concerning the media is the merger of the two regulatory bodies for telecommunications and broadcasting. By establishing the new Agencija za telekomunikacije in radiodifuzijo (Agency for Telecommunications and Broadcasting), the existing Svet za radiodifuzijo Republike Slovenije (Slovenian Broadcasting...