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On 29 July 2010, Dunja Mijatovic, the OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media, presented the regular report to the OSCE Permanent Council, the organisation’s main decision-making body. The report consists of overviews of issues raised in the participating countries, activities of the Representative in the last period and planned activities for the next reporting period. A large part of the report consists of the analysis of issues raised in 26 of the OSCE participating states. In the last period the Representative had to deal with several issues concerning media freedom, such as media pluralism,...

The Albanian Parliament elected three new members of the Këshilli Kombëtar i Radios dhe Televizionit (National Council of Radio and Television - NCRT) on 22 July 2010. Two of them were re-elected for a second term, while the third one is the newest member of the Council. The election of these members came after a long period during which the seats were vacant, due to the boycott of parliamentary sessions by the opposition. Following the law amended in 2006 and the political agreement that followed, the NCRT’s membership is chosen from among the proposals of four potential members for each vacant...

On 1 April 2010 the Parliamentary Commission on Education, Public Media and Information Means issued a resolution that approved the Annual Report on the Activities of the Këshilli Kombëtar i Radios dhe Televizionit (National Council of Radio and Television - NCRT) for 2009 (see IRIS 2005-4: 6). The Report provides information on the main activities of the regulator in 2009, especially with regard to the licensing of new television and radio stations, the fight against piracy, the problems with frequency spectrum coverage, etc. Specific attention is paid to the preparations for the strategy for...

The transition to digital broadcasting in Albania is expected to face a series of challenges, according to the latest public discussion among stakeholders. On 27 April 2010 the Këshilli Kombëtar i Radios dhe Televizionit (National Council of Radio and Television), the regulatory authority for broadcasting, and the Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) representation in Albania jointly organised a conference on “Digital Television: Near and Far”. This conference marked the conclusion of a two-year long awareness and discussion campaign on the strategy for the transition to digital...

On 2 March 2010, the European Commission against Racism and Intolerance (ECRI) made public its latest reports on Albania, Austria, Estonia and the United Kingdom, adopted in the fourth round of its monitoring of the laws, policies and practices to combat racism in the Member States of the Council of Europe (for commentary on earlier reports, see IRIS 2009-10: 0/109, IRIS 2009-8: 5, IRIS 2009-5: 4, IRIS 2008-4: 6, IRIS 2006-6: 4 and IRIS 2005-7: 3). A number of key recommendations dealing with the (audiovisual) media and/or the Internet can be distilled from relevant sections of these reports. The...