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The Council of Ministers of the Government of Cyprus decided on 5 September 2018 to ban the Cyprus Broadcasting Corporation (CyBC), the public service media provider, from airing paid commercial advertising and engaging in telemarketing. At the same meeting, the Council of Ministers amended the relevant provision in the State budget and increased the grant to the CyBC in order to compensate for its loss of income from advertising and telemarketing. There is no indication in the announcement about the date on which the decision will take effect or whether any relevant amendment or law will be forwarded...

Audiovisual media service providers under Cypriotic jurisdiction will continue operating with temporary licences until the end of June 2019. Law 64(I)/2017 amending Article 56 of the Basic Law on Radio and Television Organisations L. 7(I)/1998, authorises the Radio Television Authority to extend the validity of TV licences for one more year for all operating service providers. The law was published in the Official Gazette on 29 June 2018. Licences issued since the switch-over to digital television in July 2011 to authorise digital transmission remain temporary. A decision on amendments to the Basic...

The Administrative Court upheld a decision of the Cyprus Television Authority to sanction the Cyprus Telecommunications Authority (CYTA) for a broadcast in which insults and profanities were heard during the live coverage of a football match. The live transmission by the channel Cytavision-Sports1 took place between 7 pm and 9 pm, so during the family viewing zone. The Authority found that the broadcaster violated Rule 21.4 of the Normative Administrative Acts KDP 10/2000, which stipulates that broadcasters have the obligation to take measures to ensure that programmes adhere to the generally accepted...

The plenary of the Supreme Court decided that amendments to the law on RIK - the Cyprus Broadcasting Corporation -, L. Chapter 300A, were in breach of Article 28 (equality before the law) of the Constitution of Cyprus. The amendments subject the operation of new channels to the condition that the economic viability of existing audiovisual media service organisations would not be threatened, and further prohibit the inclusion of advertising and commercial announcements addressed to the territory of the Republic of Cyprus in re-transmitted broadcasts from other EU or third countries. The Court decided...

Provisions of the Law on Radio and Television Organisations of 2016 violate Articles 49 and 56 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union (TFEU) and they do not come under any allowed exception. The law is in conflict with European Law, which is superior to the Constitution of Cyprus, decided the plenary of the Supreme Court on a reference by the President of the Republic. The decision followed an intermediary verdict in which the Supreme Court rejected an application by the House of Representatives that the case be referred directly to the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU)...