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On 24 August 2010 the six months term expired, before which, according to Article 125 of the Закон за радиото и телевизията (Radio and Television Act - ZРТ), all enterprises that transmit radio or TV programmes in their electronic webs have to submit to the Council for Electronic Media a list of all radio and TV programmes that have been transmitted and the documents proving the granting of all copyrights and related rights on each programme and on all elements of the programme. This obligation is in force since 2001 but in 2009 for the first time the Bulgarian legislator established some sanctions...

By order of the Bulgarian Prime Minister a Working Group has been established in the Ministry for Culture with the purpose of preparing a bill for the electronic media by 30 November 2010. The Working Group includes media experts, representatives of the Council of Ministers, of the Council for Electronic Media and the Communications Regulation Commission, of the Bulgarian National Radio and the Bulgarian National Television, of the Ministry for Culture and the Ministry for Finance and the Independent Producers Association. The Council of Ministers held a discussion about the future of the media...

The President of Bulgaria imposed a veto on the latest Act for the Amendment of the Radio and Television Act adopted by the National Assembly. Among the motives for the imposition of the veto was that by introducing a limitation on the members of the Council for Electronic Media on serving more than two consecutive mandates, a new specific limitation is created beyond those listed in Article 26 of the Radio and Television Act, as it is used as legal grounds for a pre-term termination of the mandate of council members apart from those listed in Article 30. The National Assembly overrode the presidential...

On 14 May 2010, a bill for the amendment of the Radio and Television Act (RTA) was introduced in the National Assembly. The amendments were provoked by programmes on the private national terrestrial television “Nova”, in the format “Big Brother Family”, in which children of some of the families were admitted into the house. The participation of juveniles in those programmes was the subject of harsh criticism by the National Assembly Commission for Education, Science and the Issues of Children, Youth and Sports. A proposal for the introduction of a new clause into the RTA has been made: “Article...

The executive director of Mobiltel declared before journalists on 14 July 2010 that there was a risk that all platforms for digital radio broadcasting in Bulgaria may be seized by unofficially associated companies and the market may be monopolised. This statement was made after on the previous day unofficial information leaked out that the Communications Regulation Commission (CRC) had rejected the Mobiltel offer and that of Vivacom for receiving a license for the multiplex that will broadcast the programmes of the public media, the Bulgarian National Television (BNT) and the Bulgarian National...