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The Zakon o Radioteleviziji Slovenija (Radio and Television Slovenia Act - ZRTVS-2) passed the Slovenian Parliament on 20 October 2010. As the leading oppositional parliamentary parties were strongly against it, they initiated a referendum, the final political tool for obstructing the discussed act. The members of the Social Democratic Party of Slovenia (SDS) and the Slovenian National Party (SNS), and also one member of the Governmental Social Democrats appealed for the referendum. In the referendum campaign the biggest issue was the status of the public broadcaster as regards ownership. As the...

The Slovenian Ministry of Culture has prepared the new Zakon o medijih (Media Law) and released it for public discussion on 28 July 2010. The discussion, which ended on 20 September 2010, was quite challenging and caused a mass movement of Slovenian musicians and journalists. Slovenian journalists raised their voices in spring this year because they were not satisfied with the current regulation of Slovenian media because, in their view, it does not protect the freedom and autonomy of journalists to a satisfactory extent. They noticed that the interests of profit and the market would no longer...

Producing audiovisual content for television broadcasters is essential for independent producers and one of the pillars of a sustainable audiovisual industry. The Slovenian Zakon o medijih (Media Act) provides in Article 90 a requirement for a 10% share of European audiovisual works by independent producers and sets out special provisions for the national broadcaster RTV Slovenia in Article 92: Slovenian audiovisual works must make up at least 25% of the annual transmission time of Radiotelevizija Slovenija television programme services 1 and 2, and one quarter of this share must be created by...

In April 2009 the Slovenian Ministrstvo za kulturo (Ministry of Culture) set up a project group to solve the problems of the self-employed in the cultural sector. The group consists of representatives of the Ministry of Culture, Ministrstvo za delo, družino in socialne zadeve (Ministries of Finance, Labour, Family and Social Affairs), NGOs such as Asociacija, Odprta zbornica, Artservis and the Sindikalna konferenca samostojnih ustvarjalcev na področju kulture in informiranja (Union Conference of Freelance Workers in Culture and Media - SUKI). The first achievement of the project group is the Uredba...

At the end of January 2010 the Zakon o Slovenskem filmskem centru (Act on Slovenian Film Centre), which might be the first step towards prosperity for the Slovenian film industry, was proposed. The public debate on this ended on 4 March 2010. The film sector is one of the pillars of cultural diversity. Its strength lies in its ability to cross borders and travel around the globe at a reasonable cost. Film production is the financially most intensive segment of the film industry. The toughest part of the producers’ job is fundraising and it takes a long time for producers to cover the costs of the...