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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...

On 25 November 2010, the Constitutional Court of the Czech Republic ruled on a case concerning freedom of expression in caricatures and noted that the freedom of expression was not limitless and that drawings showing naked politicians carrying out sex acts exceeded the admissible limit of satire and exaggeration. This decision represented victory for a former Czech minister in a legal dispute with the Czech magazine Reflex. The magazine’s publisher, Ringier, therefore lost its appeal to the Constitutional Court, in which it had claimed that it had suffered damage as a result of the courts’ order...

The Czech Constitutional Court has heard a complaint from a broadcaster about a fine imposed on it for broadcasting a “Big Brother”-type reality show. The Broadcasting Council had decided that the broadcaster should pay a fine of CZK 200,000 for violating Article 32 of Law no. 231/2001, which prohibits broadcasters from broadcasting TV programmes that endanger the physical, spiritual or moral development of children, between 6 a.m. and 10 p.m. Some parts of the programme had contained scenes that harmed human dignity and interpersonal relations, as well as vulgar and bad language (see IRIS 2005-10/13,...