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The Slovenian Media Act which is the essential legislative tool for the content regulation of television programming, was amended in May 2006. The proposal for an amendment of Article 84 on the protection of children and minors against potentially harmful materials was formulated by the Peace Institute of Ljubljana at the request of the Ministry of Culture. Also, an additional non-governmental proposal was made by NGOs involved in the field of social care for children and women and involved in the framework of the project on pornography regulation. The non-governmental group proposed a formulation...

In the course of 2006, the Council of Europe’s Committee of Ministers (CM) adopted a number of country-specific Resolutions in the context of the Second Monitoring Cycle of the Framework Convention for the Protection of National Minorities (FCNM). The Resolutions focus on the Czech Republic, Estonia, Italy, the Slovak Republic and Slovenia and contain a number of provisions concerning the (audiovisual) media (for similar provisions in earlier country-specific Resolutions, see IRIS 2006-2: 4). In respect of the Czech Republic, the CM recommends, inter alia, that the authorities take “additional...

In mid-July 2005, the Slovenian Parliament adopted the Act on Radiotelevision Slovenia (RTV Act). The voting led to a second approval of the Act which became necessary after the upper house, the National Council, vetoed the previous decision of the assembly. However, the Act did not come into force immediately. Instead, Members of Parliament belonging to the opposition formally requested a referendum which was scheduled for 25 September 2005. The citizens of Slovenia were requested to state whether they agree with the implementation of the Act as adopted by Parliament. The provisional result of...

On 1 April 2005, the Slovenian Ministry for Culture published a Bill on Slovenian public service broadcasting (RTV Slovenija). The original intention was to table the Bill before Parliament as part of an accelerated legislative procedure. However, following protests from various parties, the Ministry decided not to take this route and tabled the Bill in the normal way. On 22 April 2005, the Parliament held an extraordinary sitting to give the Bill its first reading. The current law on public service broadcasting dates back to 1994 and was last amended in 2001. The most controversial aspects of...

The Slovenian Parliament adopted the Act on Public Usage of the Slovenian Language on 15 July 2004. The Act stipulates, inter alia, that all legal entities under civil law and all natural persons should use Slovenian in their business relations with customers. If foreign customers are involved in a business activity, their language may also be used in addition to Slovenian. There is also a provision on consumer protection, which states that the contents of all products sold on the Slovenian market must be described in Slovenian. In the media sector, Article 22 of the Act stipulates that radio and...