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The European Commission has finished the preliminary analysis of the measures implementing the Audiovisual Media Services (AVMS) Directive into national law notified by 16 Member States: Belgium, Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, France, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Malta, the Netherlands, Romania, Spain, Sweden, Slovakia and the United Kingdom. Subsequently, the European Commission has sent fact-finding letters to these states inquiring about these implementing measures. The Commission is thus seeking to ensure that all provisions of the AVMS Directive have been correctly transposed into...

On 9 February 2011 an open meeting of the Council for the Protection of Intellectual Property under the presidency of the Ministry of Culture with representatives of the collective management societies and some associations of users of protected works took place. The topic of the meeting was the actual problem of cable re-transmission in Bulgaria. It is a well known fact that for many years cable operators in Bulgaria have not been paying any remuneration to the collecting societies for the re-transmission of phonograms and audio-visual works/films included in television programmes and are even...

By Decision No. 615 dated 9 June 2009 the Communications Regulation Commission issued to Towercom Bulgaria EAD a permit for the use of two national multiplexes. A month later, on 9 July 2009, the Communications Regulation Commission issued a permit for the use of three national multiplexes to Hanu Pro Bulgaria EAD (Decision No. 674). Furthermore, on 14 July 2009, the Communications Regulation Commission announced that Hanu Pro Bulgaria EAD was the winner in the latest tender for a national multiplex, which would broadcast the programmes of the public service media (Decision No 749). Currently,...

Pursuant to Art. 70, para. 1 of the Закон за радиото и телевизията (Radio and Television Act) the Bulgarian National Television shall prepare, perform and report on a separate budget. In addition, according to Art. 70, para. 3, item 3 of the Radio and Television Act, part of the budget of the Bulgarian National Television comes as a State subsidy. The subsidy from the State budget shall be used for the preparation, creation and broadcasting of national and regional programmes. According to Art. 8 of the Закон за държавния бюджет на Република България за 2011 г. (State Budget Act for 2011) the National...

On 1 January 2011 new rules concerning the State funding for the Bulgarian film industry came into force. According to the amendments to Art. 17 of the Закон за филмовата индустрия (Film Industry Act), the subsidy for the National Film Centre - which is an Executive Agency of the Ministry of Culture (Изпълнителна агенция “Национален филмов център”, see IRIS 2004-6/103) - shall be granted only “if possible” and its annual rate shall be based on the sum of the average budgets for the previous year of “up to” 7 feature films, 14 feature-length documentaries and 160 minutes animation. These amendments...