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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...

On 26 June 2015, Law 94(I)/2015 amending Law 7(I)/1998 on Radio and Television Organisations was published in the Official Gazette. It extends the validity of TV licences for all operating service providers for one more year. Following the switch-over to digital television on 1 July 2011, the existing licences for analogue transmission were replaced by temporary licences for digital transmission valid until 30 June 2012. Since then, due to pending amendments to the basic Law 7(I)/1998 to respond to the conditions of the new environment and to make possible the issuance of permanent licences, temporary...

On 11 September 2014, the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) handed down a judgement in case C-291/13, Papasavvas. The case concerned an action for damages brought against a Cypriot newspaper for harm caused by articles published on the paper’s website that were of an allegedly defamatory nature. The district court of Nicosia submitted a series of five questions to the CJEU. The answers given were as follows: (1) Should the laws of the Member States on defamation be regarded as restrictions on the provision of information services for the purposes of applying the E-Commerce Directive...