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The Parliament of the Czech Republic has approved the proposal for the new Press Act (Act on Rights and Obligations in Publishing of Periodical Press and on Amendment of some other Acts). This act contains inter alia the following provisions: the obligatory data (imprint) and the obligatory copies, which the publisher has to deliver to certain libraries. The registration of all periodical press is done by the Ministry of Culture. New to the Czech legislation is the right to reply. The right to demand the publication of a reply is introduced in accordance with the requirements of section 23 of...

The Ministry of Culture of the Czech Republic submitted to the Government of the Czech Republic a proposal for a new Broadcasting Act (Zákon o provozování rozhlasového a telvizního vysílání a prevzatého vysílání). The proposal is intended to implement the revised «Television without Frontiers» Directive and the European Convention on Transfrontier Television (as amended by the Protocol of 1998) into Czech Law. In its introductory provisions the Act contains some definitions, many of which correspond to the definitions of the Directive. In addition, the Act sets out criteria to determine in which...

Some issues relating to the mechanism of generating and collecting radio and television fees were regulated by Act No. 188/1999 of 6 July 1999 which has amended several provisions of the Act No. 212/1995 o koncesionárskych poplatkoch (on Radio and Television Fees) as amended and the Act on Pursuing of Radio and Television Broadcasting. The amended provisions define the group of legal and natural persons that are charged for broadcasting services and the group of persons receiving these services free of charge. The bodies entitled to collect radio and televisions fees are the Slovak Radio and Slovak...

At the end of May, the Czech government proposed a draft bill to amend the Press Law (no.81/1966) in its revised version (Law no.86/1990). At the heart of the proposed amendments are the rights of identified individuals, ie the right of reply and the right to further statements and corrections. The right of reply is to be granted to persons whose honour, dignity or privacy is harmed by a particular report; this applies even if the content of the report is accurate. If the names of individuals are published in connection with court cases and if this leads to defamatory reporting, those persons...

On 23 May and 9 June 1997 both houses of the Czech Republic's parliament adopted the new Radio and Television Broadcasting Act. This contains inter alia regulations for increasing by 50% the fee charged to participants for receiving broadcasts. However there were no amendments to the amount of air-time public-service broadcasters are allowed to devote to advertising. Although there was one proposed amendment aimed at reducing total broadcasting time for advertising material from 1% to 0.2% of daily broadcasting time, the parliament did not adopt either this or the amendment aimed at prohibiting...