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On 27 June 2013, the Supreme Court (“Court”) confirmed the decision of the Council for Broadcasting and Retransmission of the Slovak Republic (“Council”) imposing a fine of EUR 5,000 on a major Slovak commercial TV broadcaster for violating human dignity in its programme. In March 2012, the Council received a complaint regarding reports aired within the news programme called “Crime” concerning the tragic suicide of a middle-age man from a small town in Slovakia. In their complaint, the bereaved of the deceased man stated that they explicitly asked the broadcaster not to report about the tragic...

On 29 May 2013, the Supreme Court (“Court”) confirmed the decision of the Council for Broadcasting and Retransmission of the Slovak Republic (“Council”) imposing a fine of EUR 3,319 on a major Slovak commercial TV broadcaster for exceeding the advertising time limit of 12 minutes per broadcasting hour. With its confirmed decision, and with other ones, the Council stated that the only criterion for the qualification of a spot as either sponsorship announcement or advertising is its purpose. If the spot contains promotional messages referring to the sponsor of the programme or his goods and services...

On 2 April 2013, the Supreme Court’s (hereinafter “Court”) ruling of 28 February 2013 was published. It confirmed the decision of the Supreme Audit Office of the Slovak Republic (hereinafter “Audit Office”). With reference to the Act on Free Access to Information (hereinafter “Information Act”), the Audit Office refused to disclose information about a controversial public tender carried out by the Ministry of Construction. The Information Act represents a frequently used and thus valuable investigation tool for journalists in all types of media (print, audiovisual or online). The importance of...

On 21 May 2013, the Supreme Court’s (hereinafter “Court”) ruling of 25 April 2013 has been published, which confirmed the decision of the Council for Broadcasting and Retransmission of Slovak republic (hereinafter “Council”). The Council imposed a fine of EUR 100,000 on the major commercial broadcaster for broadcasting political advertising outside the official election campaign set by law (21 days before the election day). Three months prior to the election, the broadcaster aired, on a rather large scale, sponsorship announcements of the civic association “Citizen in action” (about 20 messages...

On 19 February 2013, the Supreme Court (“Court”) confirmed the decision of the Council for Broadcasting and Retransmission of the Slovak republic (“Council”) imposing a fine of 25,000 EUR on a major Slovak commercial TV broadcaster for violating human dignity in TV broadcasting. In March 2012, the Council received a number of complaints regarding the reality show called “Extreme Families” that followed stories of atypical families. The complaints were aimed specifically at the story of the family with a disabled son, who sometimes had to be subtitled to be understood. The broadcaster promoted “Extreme...