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Since 1 August 2003 the amount of radio and television licence fees, which is to be paid monthly by the owner of a TV and / or radio set and which are revenues of public service Slovak television and Slovak radio collected by Slovak Post from 1,165,542 TV-households, was increased automatically as the amendment of the zákon o koncesionárskych poplatkoch (Act on Licence Fees of 1995) has come into power. The new legal provision, Act no 241/2003 on the amendment of the Act on licence fees and on the amendment of the Act no. 468/1991 on radio and television broadcasting , set the monthly fee for...

In March 2002 the zákon o vysielaní a retransmisii (Act on Broadcasting and Retransmission of 2000) was amended by zákon c. 206/2002 (Act No. 206/2002), which came into force on 8 May 2002. The amendments mainly concern the legal status of the Council for Broadcasting and Retransmission as now being entitled to impose fines for breaches of provisions concerning programmes and commercials without a warning only in defined cases: "The Council can impose a fine without prior warning, if the obligation pursuant to Art. 16 letter c) (Breach of the rules covering elections), Art. 19 (Protection of human...

Art. 26 of the Constitution of the Slovak Republic of 1 September 1992, which was republished on 26 March 2001 and supplemented by the Act of 11 April 2002, guarantees the freedom of speech and the right to information. Everyone has the right to express his or her opinion in words, writing, print, picture or by other means. Ideas and information may be sought, received and disseminated freely, regardless of the state borders. No approval process is required for press publishing. Activity in the field of radio and television broadcasting may be subject to permission from the State (Art. 26 para....

The responsibilities of the Council for broadcasting and retransmission are determined by the zákon o vysielaní a retransmisii a o zmene zákona o telekomunikáciách (Act on Broadcasting and Retransmission of 2000). The administrative actions accompanying either the granting of licences for radio or television broadcasting or applied in cases where the violation of legal provisions covering content issues are considered must comply with the procedural rules set out by another provision - the zákon o správnom konaní (Act on Administrative Procedure No.71/1967 of Coll.). After nearly one year of applying...

On 1 May 2001, the new zákon o reklame a doplnení niektor´ych zákonov (Act on Advertising and on Amendments of Certain Rules) was enacted. It replaces the zákon o reklame v znení neskorsích predpisov (Act on Advertising) of 1996 and it amends for the first time the zákon o vysielaní a retransmisii (Act on Broadcasting and Retransmission) of 2000. The main change is the implementation of the new concept of comparative advertising into the new Act on Advertising of 2001. Comparative advertising was not allowed in the past and the incentive to deal with this type of advertising followed from efforts...