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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...

Six ousted members of the Czech Radio and Television Broadcasting Council have lodged a complaint with the Constitutional Court of the Czech Republic and filed a joint lawsuit in Prague over their dismissal by the Chamber of Deputies and by the Prime Minister of the Czech Republic in early April. The Council was dismissed because of repeated and serious infringements of its obligations laid down by the Broadcasting Act. The six claim that the lower house and the Premier ignored provisions of the Charter of Fundamental Rights and Freedoms, since only one of those dismissed, the Council's Chairman,...

On 2 July 2003, the First Chamber of the Czech Parliament approved a code for the public service broadcaster Ceská televize (Czech Television - CT), which, in accordance with Article 8 (1c) of the Czech Television Act, had been drawn up by the CT Director General and approved by the CT Council. The code is designed to set out and establish the principles for the operation of public service television and thus become an effective instrument for ensuring that the objectives of public service television are fulfilled. The code's provisions apply to CT and its employees, including those recruited...

In May, the Parliament of the Czech Republic passed an amendment to Act No.40 on the regulation of advertising, the main subject of which was tobacco advertising. Under the previous regulations, advertising for tobacco and tobacco products was already restricted. Advertising, for example, could not depict minors, but only people who were or who looked at least 25 years old. Tobacco advertising was forbidden in print media aimed at minors and on large billboards (over 10 square metres) in the vicinity (300 m) of schools and children's playgrounds. Advertisements were not allowed to show people...

On 14 March 2003 the UNCITRAL (United Nations Commission on International Trade Law) International Court of Arbitration in Stockholm published its final award in the TV NOVA case. An international arbitration panel ordered the Czech Republic to compensate the company CME Czech Republic B.V. (CME) with the sum of USD 269,814,000.- and interest at a rate of 10 % on this sum from 23 February 2000 until the date of payment. The Court of Arbitration in Stockholm had initiated the proceedings on the basis of an Agreement on Encouragement and Reciprocal Protection of Investments between the Kingdom of...