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The Parliament of the Czech Republic passed an amendment to the Broadcasting Act aimed at the transposition of European Community law. The amendment clarifies some terms of the broadcasting law in compliance with the "Television Without Frontiers" Directive. The amendment contains specific criteria to identify the jurisdiction over broadcasting as provided in the Directive. A chain of criteria is set out to determine whether a television broadcasting organization is to be regarded as being established in the Czech Republic. The objective of these cascading criteria is to ensure that the subject...

The Ombudsman of the Czech Republic has asked the Constitutional Court to rule on the compatibility with the Constitution of the Decree implementing the Secrecy Act. It is claimed that the Decree is not consistent with the constitutional law principles of legal certainty and the predictability of state action. The protection of classified information is organised on two levels in the Czech Republic. General regulations are set out in the Secrecy Act, which defines matters that should be kept secret as "matters which, if known to the public, could jeopardise the interests of the Czech Republic...

The Czech Republic is likely to introduce digital terrestrial television this year, or by 2005 at the latest. In January this year, by the decision of the Broadcasting Council, the DVB-T licences (Digital Video Broadcasting ­ Terrestrial) were extended for 2004. These licences are currently held by the Czech Digital Group and Ceske Radiokommunikace. Digital broadcasts by these two companies can be received in and around the capital city, Prague. This is a trial service, carrying the channels operated by the Czech analogue terrestrial TV companies. The Ministerstvo informatiky (Ministry for Information...

By its decision of 30 October 2003, the High Court of Prague restricted the possibility of broadcasting a court hearing live. The decision was taken on the occasion of an appeal by five persons accused for the preparation of murdering a journalist who published several articles on a corruption case affecting the ministerial level. In the Czech Republic, live coverage or recordings by the media in courtrooms are allowed in principle. The coverage must be expressly permitted by the competent judicial authorities. Such reporting should be authorised only where it does not involve a serious risk of...

The preparations for the new Electronic Communications Act in the Czech Republic have entered their final phase. At a meeting with representatives of professional associations, the regulatory authority and companies operating telecommunication networks and providing telecommunication services held on 4 August 2003, the Minister of Technology presented the main provisions of the draft legislation and a schedule of the work, which should result in a regulation implementing the European legislation. According to the principal policy documents of the European Union, the new law should be an instrument...