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The President of the Republic exercised his right of return and sent back to the House of Representatives for reconsideration a law on telecommunications that excluded CYTA (the public telecommunications organisation) from the contest for the second digital television platform. Two digital television platforms will be created; one has already been assigned to Ραδιοφωνικό ϊδρυμα Κύπρου (Cyprus Broadcasting Corporation, RIK), the public service broadcaster; the second platform will be issued to a private organization by a tender process. The law voted on 15 April 2010 prohibited CYTA's eligibility...

The Office of the Commissioner for Electronic Communications and Postal Regulation (OCECPR) has launched its first information bulletin on the introduction of digital terrestrial television in Cyprus (see IRIS 2010-2: 1/7). In the publication the general framework and the arrangements for the start of digital terrestrial television and the complete switch-off of analogue transmission in July 2011 are explained. Answers to ten questions then follow. These concern: - technical issues and requirements the consumer needs to respond to in order to be able to receive digital television programmes; -...

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...