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At the end of 2006, the Council of Ministers adopted a draft law on amendments and supplements to the Zakon za Radioto i Televiziata (Bulgarian Radio and Television Act, see IRIS 2002-2: 3). The proposed law was passed by the Parliament soon after the opening of its first session in the new year. The amendments were proposed with regard to the accession of Bulgaria to the European Union on 1 January 2007. According to the draft, all citizens and legal entities based in the European Union or the European Economic Area will be entitled to carry out radio and television activities in the territory...

At the beginning of 2007 new tenders for regional analogue terrestrial television broadcasting are to be opened - two in the city of Plovdiv (January 2007), three in the city of Varna (January 2007) and three in the city of Sofia (February 2007) - following procedures already opened on 11 May 2006 by the Council for Electronic Media for 22 regional radio stations which should be completed by the end of December 2006. The procedures are a consequence of a new strategy for the development of radio and television activity through terrestrial broadcasting which entered into force at the beginning of...

In the context of the accession of Bulgaria to the EU the Bulgarian National Assembly adopted amendments to the Tobacco and Tobacco Products Act and the Radio and Television Act in August 2006 (see IRIS 2002-2: 3). A new clause is introduced in the Tobacco and Tobacco Products Act prohibiting the advertising of tobacco and tobacco products in the mass media. The advertising of tobacco and tobacco products is explicitly prohibited in radio and television programmes (Art. 35, para. 2 Tobacco and Tobacco Products Act). The advertising of tobacco and tobacco products in the press or other printing...

On 10 June 2006 the Protection of Consumers Act came into effect. The purpose of the Act was to protect consumers and persons exercising activities in commerce, production and handcrafts from misleading and unfair advertising. A new definition of “advertising” was introduced in the Act: “any message related to commerce, craft or profession, aimed at the promotion of goods or services, including real estate, rights and obligations (Art. 33, para 1). The Act also established a prohibition of misleading and unfair advertising, as well as for comparative advertising that was not proper according to...

In December 2005, the Parliament amended the Закон за радиото и телевизията (Radio and Television Act, see IRIS 2002-2: 3) without prior consultation among the professional media community and with the Parliamentary Commission on Civil Society and Media. The new provisions concern the duration of advertisements of the public service broadcasters - the Bulgarian National Television (BNT) and the Bulgarian National Radio (BNR). According to the new rules the duration of advertisements of the public operators was equalled with the duration of advertisements by commercial broadcasters: “The total duration...