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On 9 November 1998 Act No. 335/1998 came into force, changing and amending Act No. 254/1991 on Slovak Television and Act No. 255/1991 on Slovak Radio. The changes and amendments relate to the bodies of both institutions, which guarantee programme independence for broadcasters the Council of Slovak Television and the Council of Slovak Radio. According to the amended Acts, the Councils will operate for a period of four years once their members have been appointed. The second major amendment concerns the duty of the National Council of the Slovak Republic to elect new Council members within a period...

The Council of Slovak Republic for Radio and Television Broadcasting which is responsible for electronic media has taken several decisions just before the elections for the national council, thus establishing offences against the broadcasting law and the electoral law by the "Slovak Television" as well as private broadcasters. In that context, it pronounced 15 sanctions according to the more restrictive catalogue of sanctions provided by the legal amendment No. 187/1998. In early July 1998, the Broadcasting Council published a recommendation concerning the behaviour of electronic media during...

In February, the Slovak Parliament finally rejected a number of amendments to the Radio and Television Broadcasting Act, and also to the Slovak Television (STV) and Slovak Radio (SR) Acts. The proposed amendments were primarily intended to prevent any company or individual from using licences lawfully issued to other operators for their own broadcasting purposes. The key to this was a regulation under which bought material must never account for 100% of the total STV and SR programme. The Radio and Television Council of the Slovak Republic had warned Markísa-Slovakia LTD., owner of markisa TV,...

On 23 October 1996 the National Council of the Slovak Republic promulgated legislation amending the existing Slovak Broadcasting Act. The Act as amended came into force on 19 November 1996. When the two independent States were constituted on the break-up of the former Czechoslovakia, neither the Slovak nor the Czech Republic introduced a basically new version of broadcasting legislation, but adopted the media legislation of the former federation, adapting it to suit the new situation. The present Act amends and supplements Act No.254/1991 on Slovak television, Act No.255/1991 on Slovak radio...

In IRIS 1996-5: 10 we published an overview of the State of Signatures and Ratifications of all European Conventions and other international treaties that are relevant to the audio-visual sector. In IRIS 1996-7: 5, IRIS 1996-8: 6 (September issue), IRIS 1996-9: 7 (October issue), IRIS 1996-10: 5 and in IRIS Special 1996 we updated this overview. We can now report that in the meantime, Slovakia ratified the European Convention on transfrontier television. Slovakia, which signed this Convention on 11 September 1996, ratified it on 20 January 1997. Consequently, the date of entry into force will be...