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The first co-ministerial decision on the digital switchover was published in the Greek Official Journal, on the basis of Article 14 of Law 3592/2007 (see IRIS 2007-8: 12) relating to the transition to digital terrestrial television. This decision fixes 1 November 2008 as the date for the voluntary commencement of transmission of DTT by the existing analogue stations. According to the text of the decision, this first stage of the DSO will involve seven multiplexes, each of them containing four television channels: three of the multiplexes will be allocated to the public broadcaster ERT, the Channel...

The Greek Ethinko Symvoulio Radiotileorasis (National Council for Radio and Television – ESR) recently issued three important decisions regarding the issues of protection of minors, privacy and protection of a person’s personality. The first decision refers to the well-known series “Prison Break”. The series was broadcast by the Greek channel “ANTENNA” and was rated by the special committee of the channel as second category – available for minors with parental consent. According to this rating, the series could not be transmitted during the “children’s zone” (i.e. before the watershed). On a daily...

In September 2007 Greece formally notified the European Commission regarding the new Greek “Law on Media Concentration” prompting the Commission to close an ongoing infringement procedure. This new law has been described by the Competition Commissioner as the legislative step with which Greece “has finally completed its national regulatory framework for broadcasting transmission services”. After it was referred to the European Court of Justice for failure to implement Commission Directive 2002/77/EC of 16 September 2002 on competition in the markets for electronic communications networks and services,...

On 15 November 2007, Miklós Haraszti, the OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media, presented his regular report to the OSCE Permanent Council, the organization’s main decision-making body. This was his third and final report of the year. Mr. Haraszti’s presentation began with a commemoration of Alisher Saipov, “a young journalist whose promising career was cut short by an act of brutality”. Saipov, a correspondent with the internationally acclaimed media outlets Ferghana, Radio Free Europe and Voice of America, and a founder of an Uzbek-language newspaper, was shot and killed in downtown Osh...

On 9 October 2007, the National Council for Radio and Television (ESR) decided to discontinue the issuing of certificates establishing the incompatibility between the ownership of media enterprises and the conclusion of contracts with public entities. In fact, the competence of ESR is limited to issuing a certificate on the existence of such an incompatibility based upon the exclusive condition that a final condemnatory Court decision related to the offence of active corruption has been notified to the Council by the interested enterprise or by the Authority responsible for the tender. In taking...