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In the course of its 25th session, the Croatian Parliament discussed the proposed Draft Law Amending the Electronic Media Law. On 20 April 2007, the Parliament reached the decision to adopt the proposal, while any comments, proposals and opinions on the draft should be addressed to the Government, who had prepared the proposal for a final version. The draft regulates the following fundamental issues: - It stipulates that a natural person may also be an electronic media broadcaster; - It deletes the provision explicitly binding electronic publications to the activities of producing and transmitting...

In the course of its 25th session, currently in progress, the Croatian Parliament shall discuss, among other issues, the draft Law on Audiovisual Services. The proposed law shall regulate the performance, organisation and funding of audiovisual services, the encouragement of Croatian audiovisual creativity and distribution, as well as complementary activities, the protection of audiovisual heritage, the promotion of cinematographic representations, and the presentation of Croatian audiovisual works in cinema theatres both within the country and abroad. Thus, Article 20, para. 1 of the draft specifies...

For the purpose of implementing DVB-T (Digital Video Broadcasting - Terrestrial) in the Republic of Croatia, two working groups have been established. One is the “Working Group for the Preparation of the Implementation and Application of the DVB Technology and Services in the Republic of Croatia”, which was established by the Ministry of the Sea, Tourism, Transport and Development and whose primary task is to prepare and propose the relevant documents to the Government of the Republic of Croatia. The second is the “DVB-T Forum”, established by the Croatian Telecommunication Agency and which is...

The government of the Republic of Croatia has adopted a strategy for the development of broadband Internet in Croatia up to the year 2008. The goal of this strategy is to achieve a better functioning of entities in the educational, health service, economic and public administration sectors on national and local level through broadband infrastructure. The strategic commitment of the Croatian government, to the field of market definitions and analyses, and also to the regulation of the market, shall be in compliance with the acquis communautaire at the latest by the end of the year 2008. At the beginning...

Pursuant to Section 26, para. 3 of the Electronic Media Act ("Official Gazette" No. 122/03, see IRIS 2003-9: 9) which refers to television quotas, the Council for Electronic Media adopted, on 30 May 2006, Rules for Croatian Audiovisual Works. The above rules stipulate that Croatian audiovisual works are any audiovisual works originally produced in the Croatian language, or any works made for national minorities in their own languages, as well as works of Croatian cultural heritage. Audiovisual works are only such works if they consist of a series of sequenced images which give the impression of...