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On 19 May 2005 the Parliament of the Republic of Albania rejected a bill on digital terrestrial and satellite broadcasting in Albania, presented by a group of Members of Parliament. Experts from the OSCE and the Council of Europe had offered their expertise to prepare and approve a temporary law on digital broadcasting. This expertise has not been taken into consideration by the authors of the bill. In July 2004, the private Albanian broadcasting company, ”Digit-alb”, started broadcasting digitally, using four frequencies without the authorization of the Keshilli Kombetar i Radios dhe Televizioneve...

The European Commission against Racism and Intolerance (ECRI) recently made public five new reports as part of the third cycle of its monitoring process of the laws, policies and practices to combat racism in the Member States of the Council of Europe. Four of the country reports (Albania, Croatia, Poland and the United Kingdom) contain specific recommendations concerning the media. Following a precedent in some of its previous country reports (see IRIS 2003-5: 3), ECRI pronounces itself in favour of the adoption in Albania of self-regulatory codes “to combat reporting that fuels racism, discrimination...

The Parliament of the Republic of Albania approved on 28 April 2005 the new Act “on copyrights and related rights”. The prior Act on copyrights of 1992 had been amended many times, but it did not succeed in protecting intellectual property rights effectively, so there was a need for new legislation. The whole field of intellectual property rights is the subject of the new law. It defines amongst others the relations between authors and radio and television broadcasting. The establishment of independent associations for the protection of copyrights is envisaged. Nevertheless, the responsibility...

111 private radio and television stations are presently offering their services in Albania. The condition that allows broadcasting is a licence given by the Keshilli Kombetar i Radiotelevizioneve (National Council of Radio and Television - NCRT). During 2004, the Albanian market of the electronic media was seriously shocked by the unlicensed presence of a new operator for the terrestrial and digital satellite broadcasting to which the NCRT objected. On 17 February 2005, the Parliament of the Republic of Albania approved the Annual Report 2004 of the NCRT. According to the Law “On public and private...

On 23 December 2004 the Keshilli Kombetar i Radioteleviziove (National Council of Radio and Television, NCRT), the highest regulatory authority for private radio and TV stations, decided to withdraw the broadcasting license of the private TV station Shijak TV. Shijak TV is the first private TV station in Albania. It is owned by the Company Media + and it started broadcasting on 20 December 1995. It was also the first Albanian private TV station that could be received in Europe on satellite since July 2003. The Press Release of the NCRT stated that the license was withdrawn due to repeated broadcasting...