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The Slovenian public is protected from potentially harmful content on television through the following measures: 1.) a legislative provision (article 84 of the Media Act on the protection of minors) and related measures, i.e. regulation guidelines according to the stipulation of visual and acoustic effects during the broadcasting of TV programmes the contents of which are unsuitable to minors (Pravilnik o določitvi vizualnega in akustičnega opozorila za programske vsebine, ki niso primerne za otroke in mladoletnike), issued by the Ministry of Culture (Ministrstvo za kulturo); 2.) content guidelines...

This survey is based on the reports and the available data of the four regulatory and/or inspecting bodies for the period of one year. It includes all complaints related to contents, which might (seriously) impair the physical, mental and moral development of minors directly via the Internet or via mobile phones, via broadcasting and advertising in the audiovisual sector, as well as via advertising for Internet content in print. The report of the Inspectorate for Culture and Media includes a complaint that questioned gratuitous violence content in a broadcast, and another complaint against the...

In recent months, the Council of Europe’s Committee of Ministers (CM) adopted five country-specific Recommendations concerning the application of the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages: Slovakia (first monitoring cycle); Slovenia and the United Kingdom (second monitoring cycle) and Hungary and Norway (third monitoring cycle). The Charter contains a number of provisions of relevance for the (audiovisual) media, the most detailed of which are to be found in Article 11. The latest Recommendations on the application of the Charter highlight a number of pertinent issues. In respect...

The Slovenian Media Act stipulates, in Article 84, para. 6, that the Minister for Culture is responsible for the issuing of “visual symbols”, i.e. pictograms, and for the modes of their application. Aside from the Media Act, the ministerial document is the only legislative tool for content regulation in the general practice of television programming in Slovenia, which is aimed at the protection of children and minors from potentially harmful materials. The document is literally entitled Pravilnik o določitvi vizualnega in akustičnega opozorila za programske vsebine, ki niso primerne za otroke in...

At the end of 2006 the mechanisms for the implementation of programme standards were put to the test. On 28 November 2006 in a television show broadcast by the public service broadcaster RTV Slovenija (Radio-Television Slovenia) a Member of Parliament, the leader of the Slovenian National Party, was confronted by the representative of the Roma community, a member of the City Council of Novo Mesto. The former, making an offensive and denigrating speech against the latter, did not refrain from his behaviour despite having constantly been asked for restraint by the host entertainer. Both the relevant...