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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...

Film funding in the Republic of Cyprus does not rely on any specific legislative framework; it is regulated by decisions of the Council of Ministers and European Union regulations on State aid. The Cinema Advisory Committee based at the Cultural Services of the Ministry of Education and Culture and a three-member ministerial committee are the decision making bodies. The Cinema Advisory Committee was initially set by a decision of the Council of Ministers in 1994 (Decision No. 40698) and was based at the Press and Information Office of the Ministry of Interior. With a new Decision (No. 56767/2002)...

Following an amendment to the legal framework the elections for the members of the EU Parliament were included on the list of contests that should receive fair coverage by the media. The Normative Administrative Act KDP.207/2009 amended certain provisions of the Regulations on Fair Treatment of Parties and Candidates (KDP.193/2006) so that contestants in EU Parliament elections are treated fairly as in the case of Presidential, Parliamentary and Local Authorities elections. The Regulations on Fair Treatment of Parties and Candidates were issued in conformity with the Law on Radio and Television...

In accordance with Article 10 of the Telecommunications Law 112(I)/2004, requiring the Telecommunications Commissioner to ensure maximum benefit to end-users, new regulations set the terms and conditions under which providers give access to their network and services for terrestrial digital TV. The Regulations are provided in a decree issued by the Commissioner for Telecommunications and Postal Services, enacted as Normative Administrative Act KDP.200/2009. This also harmonizes Cypriot law with European Community Directives 2002/19/EC, 2000/20/EC and 2000/21/EC and the relevant documents of the...