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The Slovak Telecommunications Regulatory Authority (hereinafter “Telecom Office”) announced on 15 December 2011 the winner of the tender for the frequencies allocated for the 4th terrestrial multiplex. The company Towercom was awarded individual authorisation for the use of the given frequencies with the purpose to build up a communications network for the 4th multiplex that will provide TV broadcasting in DVB-T standard (with a possible upgrade to a newer standard, e.g., DVB-T2), along with other complementary interactive digital services such as EPG, e-government, online trading etc. The tender...

At the beginning of December 2011, the Slovak Supreme Court (court of final resort) overruled a decision of a regional court (court competent to review administrative sanctions delivered by State authorities) and cancelled a penalty imposed on the Chief editor of the Slovak magazine Zurnal issued by the National Security Authority (hereinafter: NSA). The Supreme Court issued the same decision in late November in an identical matter concerning a journalist of the same magazine. The rulings effectively dismissed both NSA’s decisions and returned these cases back to NSA for new legal investigation. In...

On 21 October 2011 the Slovak Parliament passed an amendment to Act. No 532/2010 Coll. on Radio and Television of Slovakia. The amendment was signed by the President and will come into effect on 31 December 2011 except for the provisions that abolish the TV and radio licence fees and the income from State Contracts. These provisions will come into effect on 1 January 2013. This amendment provides a new model for financing the Radio and Television of Slovakia (RTS), which was created just in January 2011 by the merging of the public service TV and radio broadcasters of Slovakia (see IRIS 2011-1/49). Firstly,...

On 1 September 2011 Act No. 221/2011 Coll. amending and supplementing Act No. 167/2008 Coll. on periodicals and news agency services (hereinafter referred to as the “Press Act“) proposed by the Minister of Culture on 15 February 2011 shall come into force (hereinafter referred to as the „Amendment“). The attempt to improve the previous controversial Press Act, which had often been criticised by Slovak as well as European institutions, had also been welcomed by the International Press Institute (IPI) at a meeting of the Minister of Culture with representatives of the Executive Board of IPI in February...

On 19 July 2011 the European Commission sent requests for information in the form of letters of formal notice, the first step in the process of an EU infringement procedure, to 20 EU member states. The member states in question, namely Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Cyprus, the Czech Republic, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia and Spain, have not yet notified to the Commission measures to implement the new EU Telecoms Package, formally adopted after two years of heated negotiations at the end of 2009...