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On 18 October 2012 the Slovak Parliament passed an Amendment (No. 342/2012 Coll., hereinafter “Amendment”) of Act. No 308/2012 Coll. on broadcasting and retransmission (hereinafter “Broadcasting Act”). Its main purpose is the implementation of the Audiovisual Media Services Directive (2010/13/EU - hereinafter “AVMSD”) in view of the regulations concerning the promotion, distribution and production of television programmes (Art. 16-18 AVMSD). The Amendment was signed by the President of the Slovak Republic on 7 November 2012 and came into effect on 1 January 2013. The official reasons for the Amendment...

On 7 November 2012, the President of the Slovak Republic signed the Act. No. 340/2012 Coll. on payments for public services provided by the Radio and Television of Slovakia (hereinafter “Act”). The legislative process thus having been completed, the Act came into effect on 1 January 2013. The Act abolishes the former model of financing the Slovakian public broadcaster Rozhlas a Televízia Slovenska (Radio and Television of Slovakia - RTVS) which foresaw an annual contribution from the state budget as the main source of income of the RTVS (see IRIS 2012-1/42). This financing model, however, never...

In recent months the Council for Broadcasting and Retransmission of the Slovak Republic (Council) has received complaints about an excessive amount of advertising within certain programmes of the major commercial TV broadcaster in Slovakia. In the case at hand an examination carried out by the monitoring department of the Council revealed two advertising breaks that together lasted exactly 12 minutes within the examined hour. However, another announcement of 20 seconds about a forthcoming musical at the state theatre was broadcast within this period. Although placed outside the commercial break...

On 10 July 2012 the Council for Broadcasting and Retransmission of the Slovak Republic (the Council) decided that the service tvsme, provided by the publisher of sme - one of two major Slovak mainstream broadsheet newspapers - constitutes an on-demand audiovisual media service (AVMS) and thus falls under the regulatory scope of the Council. This is the first case in the Slovak Republic in which the provision of an electronic version of a newspaper is deemed to fall within the remit of the Council. Interestingly, the Council had assessed the service in April 2010 and had concluded that it was not...

On 23 November 2011 the Council for Broadcasting and Retransmission of the Slovak Republic (“Council”) issued a decision concerning a complaint against “Internet TV” run at www.tnitv.weebly.com. The given service was labelled as “Internet TV of the city of Trencin” and provided a list of short (on-demand) videos mostly dealing with topics related to the city of Trencin. After a first assessment of this service the Council gained reasonable suspicion that it may be qualified as on-demand audiovisual media service and its provider thus may have failed to meet the statutory obligation to notify the...