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The institution of a General Secretariat for Communications with responsibility for audiovisual matters in place of the present Ministry for the Press and the Mass Media, which is now abolished, constitutes a significant structural change made by the Greek Government put in place by the legislative elections held on 7 March. According to Article 2, paragraph 2 of Act No. 3242/2004 (voted last May by the Greek Parliament), the new body will be one of the Prime Minister's offices and he may appoint a person to be responsible for supervising its operation. The Prime Minister has taken up this option...

On 21 April 2004, the European Commission announced its decision to refer to the European Court of Justice the six Member States that had still not fully implemented the new regulatory framework for electronic communications into their national law (i.e. Belgium, Germany, Greece, France, Luxembourg and the Netherlands). The new framework was to be implemented by July 2003, but 8 Member States failed to meet this deadline and in October 2003 the Commission opened infringement proceedings against those States (see IRIS 2003-10: 5 and IRIS 2004-2: 4). Proceedings against two Member States, Spain (see...

A new procedure for granting broadcasting licences (the first failed because of lack of economic elements in the applications) for analog terrestrially broadcast television is currently in hand (see IRIS 2003­8: 11). Calls for tenders were published by the national council for radio and television (CNRT), the independent authority responsible for supervising radio and television, in October and November, for 6 national licences, 51 regional licences and 57 local licences. Although there is little doubt concerning the five private national channels (Mega, Antenna, Alpha, Star and Alter) that operate...

Several additions and amendments have been made to the legal framework for media and the written press by virtue of a law dealing primarily with the Press and Communication Departments of the Ministry of the Press and the Mass Media. Among the provisions concerning the financial transparency of audiovisual companies, the new law establishes control mechanisms governing, on the one hand, contracts of pledge concerning stakes in audiovisual companies that include the right to vote at their annual general meetings (placing them under the control of the independent regulatory authority ­ NRTC, see...

The Presidential Decree 77/2003, published on 28 March 2003, ratified a new code of conduct for news and other political programmes drafted by the National Council for Radio and Television (ESR). This code of conduct was drawn up in accordance with the procedure set out in Article 3(15) of Law 2328/1995. Under this Article, prior to the elaboration of codes of conduct, the National Council for Radio and Television must seek the opinion of the National Federation of the Reporters' Associations, as well as the opinion of the Advertising Agencies and advertisers' representative associations, of the...