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On 19 July 2011 the European Commission sent requests for information in the form of letters of formal notice, the first step in the process of an EU infringement procedure, to 20 EU member states. The member states in question, namely Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Cyprus, the Czech Republic, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia and Spain, have not yet notified to the Commission measures to implement the new EU Telecoms Package, formally adopted after two years of heated negotiations at the end of 2009...

A campaign of the civic rights organisation Iuridicum Remedium (IuRe) against the public surveillance of everyday communication resulted in considerable success: spying on communication was judged unconstitutional. On 31 March 2011 the Constitutional Court agreed with IuRe privacy protection activists and a group of 51 MPs, who in March 2010 had submitted a proposal calling for a repeal of the relevant sections of the Electronic Communications Act implementing obligations on mobile operators and internet providers to retain communications data for the purpose of police investigations. The Electronic...

The European Commission has finished the preliminary analysis of the measures implementing the Audiovisual Media Services (AVMS) Directive into national law notified by 16 Member States: Belgium, Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, France, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Malta, the Netherlands, Romania, Spain, Sweden, Slovakia and the United Kingdom. Subsequently, the European Commission has sent fact-finding letters to these states inquiring about these implementing measures. The Commission is thus seeking to ensure that all provisions of the AVMS Directive have been correctly transposed into...

On 17 March 2011, Dunja Mijatovic, the OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media, presented the regular report to the OSCE Permanent Council, the organisation’s main decision-making body. The report consists of overviews of issues raised in the participating countries, activities of the Representative in the last reporting period and planned activities for the next reporting period. A large part of the report consists of the analysis of issues raised in 56 of the OSCE participating States. The report touches upon several issues concerning media freedom, inter alia, media pluralism, editorial...

On 1 December 2010, the Government of the Czech Republic adopted a new concept for the support and development of the Czech film industry for the period 2011-2016. The concept’s objectives are: - to strengthen and uphold the values of Czech film culture; - to develop the Czech film industry in order to make it internationally competitive; - to increase the economic potential of the film industry and to create jobs; - to establish a functioning system for the financial support of the Czech film industry; - to create a legal basis for these objectives, in conformity with EU law; - to promote the...