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The Radio Television Authority (“Authority”) has the right to file a recourse to a trial court to claim its dues. This is the verdict of the Supreme Court dated 17 December 2009, which upheld the relevant decision of a trial court. Thus, the issue of the Authority seeking in court the payment of its dues by a broadcaster receives a definite answer as this is the first time the Supreme Court deliberated on the matter. As a result, the broadcaster must pay its debts to the Authority. The Supreme Court was concerned with an appeal by Sigma Radio TV against the Authority following the decision of a...

The Supreme Court, First Instance jurisdiction, decided on 18 December 2009 that the Radio Television Authority (“Authority”) has the power to make decisions on breaches of the Law in matters that are subject to the Code of Journalistic Ethics (“Code”); this is possible when the breach is connected to a provision of the Law other than those in the Code. A broadcaster had appealed against a decision of the Authority in which the Authority imposed a fine due to the way the broadcaster dealt with an air disaster near Athens in 2005 in which 121 people died. The Authority found that there was a breach...

The process of the introduction of DTT officially started on 4 December 2009 with a public invitation to tender for the granting of licences. This will include the authorisation to use radio frequencies and create and operate DTT and electronic communications networks. The invitation was published on behalf of the Commissioner for Electronic Communications and Postal Regulation (CECPR), the authority competent for electronic communications networks, and of the Ministry of Communications and Works, responsible for the radio frequencies spectrum and radio communications in general. Two licences will...

The main regulatory framework for broadcasting is the Law on Radio and Television Broadcasting N. 7(I)/1998 (see IRIS 2001-1/13) as amended up to 2009. The Law amended and consolidated the Laws N. 120/1990 and N. 29(I)/1992 on radio and television respectively. Its main objectives are to allow the establishment and operation of private commercial broadcasters; to ensure the editorial and creative independence of professionals in the broadcast media and to set requirements for safeguarding media pluralism. The most significant provision of the Law is the establishment of the Radio Television Authority,...

Since the beginning of 2009, the Council of Europe’s Committee of Ministers (CM) has adopted five country-specific Recommendations concerning the application of the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages: Serbia (first monitoring cycle); Armenia, Austria and Cyprus (second monitoring cycle) and Sweden (third monitoring cycle). The Charter contains a number of provisions of relevance for the (audiovisual) media, the most detailed of which are to be found in Article 11. Of the latest batch of Recommendations on the application of the Charter, the most specific references to the audiovisual...