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On 11 March 2008, the Council for Electronic Media (CEM) terminated the tenders for analogue TV broadcasting with local range for the cities of Sofia (three tenders), Plovdiv (two tenders) and Varna (three tenders). The CEM justified its decision as being necessary to promote the process of digitisation of TV broadcasting in Bulgaria. The termination of the tenders means that the seven frequencies, which are currently used by telecommunications operators under temporary licences on the basis of § 9а of the Final and Transitional Provisions of the Radio and Television Act, have to be freed immediately....

On 31 January 2008, the Council of Ministers adopted a Plan for the implementation of digital terrestrial television broadcasting (DVB-T) in Bulgaria. Two main goals are set out in the plan: 1. To ensure audience reception of television channels via terrestrial means, while there is also the possibility to use the cable or satellite reception of channels; 2. To attract a new audience and thus prevent the emergence of a monopoly of cable and satellite digital broadcasting. Pursuant to the plan the transition from analogue to digital terrestrial shall be accomplished in two stages: 1. The first...

In a judgement of 11 January 2008 the Supreme Administrative Court confirmed that the Council of Electronic Media (CEM) is not empowered to issue declarations, and therefore was not able to effectively postpone tender decisions by declaration. In 2006, the CEM published eight tenders for analogue television frequencies with local coverage for the cities of Sofia (3), Plovdiv (2) and Varna (3). After a special expert commission evaluated the tender documentation prepared by the applicants in the first half of 2007, a session of the CEM was scheduled for 2 July 2007 with the only purpose being to...

The establishment of the Bulgarian Radio and Television Fund has been postponed until 1 January 2009. According to the Radio and Television Act (see IRIS 2002-2: 3) the financing of the public operators (the Bulgarian National Television and the Bulgarian National Radio) and of the media regulator (the Council for Electronic Media) shall be provided by a specially designated fund: the Radio and Television Fund, established in cooperation with the Council for Electronic Media. The Fund shall be directed by a management board whose composition shall be determined by the Council for Electronic Media....

On 7 November 2007, the Commission for Protection of Consumers banned the broadcasting of an advertisement from the company HILD Bulgaria. The Commission took its decision on the grounds that the advertisement was misleading in the sense of Article 38, para. 1 of the Consumer Protection Act. The advertisement is based on a dialogue between four famous Bulgarian actors, who are over 65 years, and the executive director of HILD Bulgaria. The following message is delivered in the advertisement: “HILD offers to all people older than 65 years a way to use their home in order to ensure their comfort...