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In October, the purchasing procedure for the entire package of Kanal A TV station shares was completed with the signature of the Closing Agreement. The Kanal A shares with a value of USD 12.5 million were bought by the company Super Plus Holding, which is owned by natural persons connected with the major commercial TV station in Slovenia, POP TV, and its majority shareholder, the company CME. Kanal A used to be the first commercial TV station in Slovenia and was founded in 1990. From 1996 the company was operated by the company SBS, who had bought a right to convert debt to equity from Kanal A's...

The present Mass Media Law has been in the process of changing since 1996, that is since only two years after its adoption, because of its many deficiencies: the law is being circumvented, market players do not comply with those restrictions regulating media ownership shares, the law does not prevent the "selling" of broadcasting channels and it does not provide for the necessary sanctions for all sorts of legal offences. In order to harmonise Slovenian with European legislation and to solve the existing legal problems, the Ministry of Culture has already prepared a new law. The draft contains...

The new bill, already sent to Parliament by the government in June last year, is now ready for the first reading in Parliament (probably in April) as the competent parliamentary committee (the Committee for Culture) has adopted the draft. The draft has been changed significantly since the government sent it to Parliament. In particular, certain powers of the Ministry of Culture have been abolished in the draft and were transferred to the Broadcasting Council as an independent regulatory authority. According to the revised draft, the Broadcasting Council's competencies will be increased significantly....

Liechtenstein and Slovenia ratified the European Convention on Transfrontier Television on 12 and 29 July 1999 respectively. The Convention came into effect on 1 November 1999 in both countries. Albania also signed the Convention on 2 July 1999. On ratification, Liechtenstein and Slovenia at the same time accepted the amending protocol to the Convention. Switzerland announced that it would apply the protocol on a temporary basis until it finally comes into effect (see IRIS 1999-4: 3 und IRIS 1999-9: 4).

In 1998, the Constitutional Court invalidated the decree which had been adopted on the basis of the Law on the public service broadcaster RTV Slovenia and served as the legal basis for the collection of licence fee. While RTV Slovenia remains entitled to collect the fee, the Court instructed Parliament to amend the law in such a way that RTV Slovenia will also have a legal basis for gathering information on citizens who are liable for payment. The Court's request must be satisfied by October this year. Members of Parliament belonging to the ruling coalition have submitted a proposal for amendment...