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Less than two weeks after the rejection of the proposed Media Act (Zakon o medijih - ZMed - 1; see IRIS 2011-2/38 and 2010-10/39) by the Parliament during the first reading on 15 July 2011, the Ministry of Culture prepared a draft Act on Audiovisual Media Services (Zakon o avdiovizualnih medijskih storitvah - ZAMS), aimed at the transposition of the Audiovisual Media Services Directive into Slovenian legislation. The preparation of ZAMS was urgent due to the pending infringement procedure started this year by the European Commission, as Slovenia has failed to notify any measures for the implementation...

After the adoption of Zakon o Slovenskem filmskem centru, javni agenciji (Slovenian Film Centre Law, public agency - ZSFCJA) in October 2010 the Slovenski filmski center (Slovenian Film Centre - SFC) acquired a managing director who took the first steps towards giving a fresh impetus to the Slovenian film industry (see IRIS 2010-5/37 and IRIS 2010-3/36). The SFC was established in January 2011 in accordance with a request of Računsko sodišče Republike Slovenije (Court of Audit of the Republic of Slovenia - RSRS) based on the Zakon o javnih skladih (Public Funds Act - ZJS-1). The SFC shall become...

On 19 July 2011 the European Commission sent requests for information in the form of letters of formal notice, the first step in the process of an EU infringement procedure, to 20 EU member states. The member states in question, namely Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Cyprus, the Czech Republic, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia and Spain, have not yet notified to the Commission measures to implement the new EU Telecoms Package, formally adopted after two years of heated negotiations at the end of 2009...

On 25 May 2011 the Ministers of Culture of Slovenia and France signed an Agreement on Film Co-production in Brussels. The Agreement is an upgrade to the European Convention on Cinematographic Co-productions. Both states are also signatories of the UNESCO Convention on the Protection and Promotion of the Diversity of Cultural Expressions and wish to renew and deepen their co-operation in the field of cinematography and to improve the use of their common cinematographic heritage. The competent institutions are the Centre national du cinéma et de l’image animée (CNC - National Centre of Cinematography)...

On 20 September 2010 the public discussion on the Draft of the new Media Act - 1 (Zakon o medijih - 1, osnutek) was closed. The Draft Media Act implements the Audiovisual Media Services Directive, which changes the definition of media. New categories are introduced: audiovisual media services and audiovisual media services on demand. Besides, the Directive defines and incorporates in its provisions the novel concepts of editorial responsibility, providers of audiovisual media services, audiovisual commercial communication and product placement. After the media and expert comments of the Draft a...