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The South Eastern Europe Cinema Network (SEE) was set up in 2000 on the initiative of the Greek Film Centre (a state-owned organisation attached to the Greek Ministry of Culture). It promotes and supports the national film industry of eleven Southeast European states (Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Greece, Croatia, “the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia”, Romania, Serbia and Montenegro, Slovenia, Turkey, Cyprus). The aim is to provide support for the development, production and advertising of the member states’ films both within and outside the network. A support fund for co-productions...

With the Act on radio communications No. 146(I)/2002 Cyprus revised the relevant legal framework in order to harmonise it with EC directives and other European legal documents, listed in the preamble. With its promulgation, the law on wireless telegraphy and the law on commercial shipping (wireless telegraphy) dating to the days of British rule were abrogated. The law provides that all issues of radio communications are under the authority of the Minister of Communications and Works, who must regulate in a way that frequencies be used in the public interest, that the consumers’ rights be safeguarded...

More specifically, its current programming of essentially CyBC, the national broadcasting service, output is expected to be enriched with additional informational, cultural and entertainment programming appealing mainly to overseas viewers - primarily overseas Cypriot communities. As regards CyprusSat's geographical reach it is expected to expand considerably during 2003 in order to cover the continents of North America and Australia, in addition to Europe, where the service has been in operation since the early 1990s via the Sirius system of satellites. These developments are the result of a...

The Act regulating telecommunications and postal services No. 19(I)/2002 aims at the harmonisation of the legislation of Cyprus with Regulation 2887/2000 of the European Parliament and EC directives adopted from 1988 to 1999. It makes it possible for private companies to offer telecommunications and postal services. The law provides for the creation of an office and the appointment of a Commissioner entrusted with the powers to regulate issues related to Telecommunications and Postal Services. It further makes provision for a variety of aspects relating to these services, namely, - Requirements...

The Cyprus Council of Ministers decided on 5 February 2002 to approve the draft Law entitled "Press (Amending) Law of 2002" and to authorize the Minister of Foreign Affairs to submit it to the House of Representatives to be voted into law (Decision No. 55.083). The purpose of the draft law is the harmonisation of the basic law with the acquis communautaire, and more especially with Articles 43 to 48 of the European Union Treaty safeguarding the right of free establishment, Articles 49 to 55 regarding the right of free provision of services, and Articles 56 to 60 regarding free of movement of capital....