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On 20 May 2016, immediately after the election of the General Director of the Bulgarian National Radio (BNR) on 17 May 2016, deputies of all Parliamentary groups submitted a bill for an amendment and supplement of the Radio and Television Act (RTA). According to the amendment, the General Director of BNR and the General Director of Bulgarian National Television (BNT) continue to exercise their rights after their mandates expire, until the new General Directors begin their duties. On 2 June 2016, the text passed at the first and second reading in one plenary sitting, which is a precedent in the...

On 27 April 2016, the Bulgarian National Assembly elected two new members to the Council for Electronic Media (CEM) under a new procedure adopted on 8 April 2016. The new provisions relate in particular to the nomination of candidates, the public announcement of their nomination, and their being interviewed before the Culture and Media Committee, as well as their election by the National Assembly. Although the 1998 Broadcasting Act, which was last amended in December 2015, provided in section 24(1) for three members of the CEM to be elected by the parliament and for two to be appointed by the state...

On 8 February 2016, the Supreme Administrative Court of the Republic of Bulgaria dismissed the action brought by the retailer Lidl Bulgaria EOOD and Co. against the decision of the Commission on Protection of Competition (the Commission) and confirmed the decision of the lower court. The Commission had imposed on Lidl a fine of 0.1% of its revenues for 2012, or 370,859 leva (approx. EUR 189,620), for a misleading advertising campaign employing the slogan “The best from Bulgaria. The best from Europe”. The campaign involved outdoor, print, and TV advertising. In the TV commercial, a young woman...

On 12 January 2016, Decree No. 380 of 29 December 2015, implementing the state budget of the Republic of Bulgaria for 2016, was promulgated in State Gazette, issue 3/2016. The State Budget Act was promulgated in the State Gazette, issue 96/2015 on 9 December 2015. The State Budget Act provides for an on-budget subsidy for the Bulgarian National Radio of BGN 42,112,000 (~ EUR 21.530.000) and an on-budget subsidy for the Bulgarian National Television of BGN 65,147,000 (EUR 33.310.000) according to Article 1, paragraph 2. The sum of the state funding received has not changed in comparison to the previous...

On 11 December 2015, the Council for Electronic Media (CEM) announced the results of its monitoring during the pre-election campaign for local elections and a national referendum. The monitoring was carried out on 17 public programmes created by public suppliers of media services: 14 with national and regional range by the public service broadcaster Bulgarian National Television (BNT) and the Bulgarian National Radio; one programme of the Political Party Attack, Alpha Television; and two radio programmes implemented by the Municipalities Burgas and Veliko Tarnovo (The Voice of Burgas and Veliko...