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The operation of audiovisual media service providers will continue with temporary licences until the end of June 2018. This is provided by Law 81(I)/2017, which amends the Basic Law on Radio and Television Organisations L. 7(I)/1998, published in the Official Gazette on 30 June 2017; the law amends Article 56 of the Basic Law and authorises the Radio Television Authority to extend the validity of television licences for all operating service providers for one more year. Following the switchover to digital television in July 2011, temporary licences for digital transmission replaced the licences...

In a pretrial decision the Supreme Court rejected on 5 April 2017 a request by the House of Representatives of the Republic to seek the opinion of the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) on a number of pretrial questions related to media issues. The Court found that the questions were formulated in a generic manner, while in the application of the House of Representatives, the reason(s) the interpretation of the CJEU was sought were not precisely determined as requested by the rules of pretrial reference. Moreover, “the formulation of the questions refers and seeks the opinion of the...

On 13 July 2016, the Council of Ministers appointed a new governing board of the Radio Television Authority following the expiration of the mandate of the previous board in mid-June 2016. The new Chairperson, a former attorney and minister of Justice and Public Order, has already served in the same position. He served from 1998, the year of the establishment by law of the Authority, until 2004. One of the members of the previous board continues on the new board. The appointments have been effected on the basis of recent amendments of the Law on Radio Television Organisations 7(I)/1998 affecting...

Five years after the switchover to digital television on 1 July 2011, operators will continue transmitting until June 2017 with temporary licences. This is provided in amending Act 77(I)/2016 of the Act on Radio and Television Organisations 7(I)/1998, published in the Official Gazette on 1 July 2016. The Act amends Article 56 of the Law 7(I)/2015, extending the validity of TV licences for all operating service providers by an additional year. Temporary licences for digital transmission that replaced the then existing licences for analogue transmission were initially issued, valid until 30 June...

On 23 December 2015, the Law on Radio and Television Organisations of 1998 was amended. The goal of these amendments is the regulation of the participation of minors in advertising and teleshopping messages, as well as in television programmes, in order to ensure their interests and protect their rights. Amending Law N. 201(I)/2015 established general rules with regard to the participation of minors in commercial and other television productions, while the regulator, the Cyprus Radio Television Authority, is required to produce a code of conduct on the matter. More specifically, the following amending...