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On 26 October 2012, the Parliament of the Czech Republic adopted the new Act on the Support of the Cinematography (the Act). The purpose of the Act is the creation of an institutional basis for the development of resources to finance selected projects in Czech cinematography. The Act regulates the conditions for the support of Czech cinematography, deriving from the Czech State Fund for Support and Development of Czech Cinematography (the Fund). The provision of resources to individual projects is conducted by the Council of the Fund (the Council), which is an independent collective body. Its members...

The Parliament of the Czech Republic approved an amendment of the Broadcasting Act concerning the increased volume of commercials compared to the rest of television programming. For a long time, the Council for Radio and Television Broadcasting (the Council) has received a wide range of complaints from viewers dealing with increased commercial sound volumes during the broadcasting of commercials. According to the amended Broadcasting Act, it is the responsibility of the Council to authoritatively intervene in any case of significant volume increases during television advertising. Previously, the...

On 18 July 2012, the Czech Parliament adopted the Act No. 275/2012 Coll., amending Act No. 127/2005 Coll. on electronic communications (the Electronic Communications Act) and some related acts. The Electronic Communications Act transposed Directive 2006/24/EC on the retention of data generated or processed in connection with the provision of publicly available electronic communications services or of public communications networks and implemented Directive 2002/58/EC (the "Directive on privacy and electronic communications") into the Czech legal order. On 26 March 2010 a group of 51 Members of...

In November 2011, the weekly magazine „Respekt“ announced that the police had called on it to hand over the document referred to in an article entitled "Destroy Document No 1439". From this document it became evident that the state attorney dealing with the corruption scandal at the State Environmental Fund was pressured not to deal with the case. The magazine refused to release the document to the police claiming that the police already had it and that they would be able to identify the source of the document. The magazine held that revealing a source would be an unpardonable offense and that...

On 22 August 2012 the Czech Government approved the “Final report of the National Coordination Group for Digital Broadcasting in the Czech Republic to complete its transition to digital television broadcasts”. The report considered the Czech Republic during its transition from terrestrial analogue television broadcasting to digital television broadcasting (DVB-T). The switchover was subject to very complex conditions within the Czech Republic of an economic, legislative, technical and geographical character. The whole transition took place in all 13 designated geographical areas within the time...