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In IRIS 1996-5: 10 we published an overview of the state of Signatures and Ratifications of, inter alia , the European Convention on Transfrontier Television, on 1 May 1996. A first update in regard to this Convention was published in IRIS 1996-8: 6. We can hereby report that the Ukraine signed the European Convention on Transfrontier Television on 14 June 1996, Slovenia on 18 July 1996, and Slovakia on 11 September 1996. Upon the signing of the Convention, Slovakia made a Reservation which is available from the Observatory in English or French, upon request.

On 14.12.1995 the People's Council of the Slovak Republic adopted legislation on the film industry. The new act covers the production and commercialization of cinema and video films, but not productions purely for television. As well as giving a range of definitions, the act contains certain obligations incumbent on producers of audiovisual works in the Slovak Republic and commercialization companies (registration duty, obligation to comply with provisions for the protection of children and young people), prohibits the commercialisation of violent and pornographic films, and contains provisions...

Similar to the Additional Protocols to the Europe Agreements establishing associations between the European Communities and their Member States of the one part and Bulgaria, Hungary, Poland, Romania and the Czech Republic respectively, of the other part ( see IRIS 1996-2:4-5), an Additional Protocol was approved to the Europe Agreement with the Slovak Republic on 22 April 1996. As a consequence, since 1 July 1996 Slovakia may participate in Community programmes and projects in the fields of, inter alia, information services and the audiovisual sector (which includes the MEDIA II programme). The...

The National Council of the Slovak Republic passed a new State Language Act on 15 November 1995. This came into force on 1 January 1996, and supersedes the Slovak Official Language Act of 1990. The preamble to Act No. 270/95 describes the Slovak language as the main element in the Slovak people's identity and an expression of the Slovak Republic's sovereignty, and the Act itself makes Slovak the state language on the territory of the Slovak Republic. Section 5 of the Act deals with the use of the Slovak language in the media. Broadcasting in the Slovak Republic is still governed in a general...

By decision of 19 December 1994 the Council and the Commission approved the Europe Agreements establishing an association between the European Communities and the Czech Republic, and an association between the EC and the Slovak Republic. The objective of the Agreements is, inter alia, the expansion of trade, the promotion of economic relations and the provision of a basis for the Community's financial and technical assistance to the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic. In the field of telecommunications, the parties will extend and strengthen their cooperation; to this end there will be an...