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The Croatian Prime Minister last month expressed his dissatisfaction with "the speed and quality of transformation" of Hrvatska televizija (Croatian Television - HTV) into a public broadcasting service and announced that the ruling coalition is determined to divide the existing public service broadcaster Hrvatska Radiotelevizija (Croatian RadioTelevision - HRT) in two separate companiesradio and television. According to the existing Zakon o Hrvatskoj radioteleviziji (Law on Croatian Radiotelevision, see IRIS 2001-5: 11) this division had to take place on 1 July 2002, but since the complete implementation...

On 19 July 2002 the Ministry of Culture and Croatian Radio-Television (HRT) signed the letter of intent which for the first time in Croatia defines the framework for joint production and promotion of at least 5 documentary and 3 feature films in Croatia on a yearly basis. The scripts and authors are to be chosen by public tender published by Ministry of Culture. HRT will finance those projects from the funds reserved by article 11 of the Zakon o Hrvatskoj radioteleviziji (Law on Croatian Radio-Television) that envisages that 10% of programmes have to be commissioned from independent production...

On 4 April 2002 the Croatian Government passed a decision on the division of Hrvatska radiotelevizija (Croatian Radiotelevision) into two companies - Javna ustanova Hrvatska radiotelevizija (Public service Croatian Radiotelevision) and dionicko drustvo Odasiljaci i veze (shareholder company regarding Transmitters and links) 100% owned by the Republic of Croatia. The newly-formed transmission company will be in charge of transmitting the national public radio and TV programmes, other commercial programmes on the air in Croatia as well as of the satellite Croatian distribution as Eutelsat partner...

The founder and co-owner of the biggest Croatian media company Europapress Holding (EPH) was cleared of all charges against him and his supposed partners which led to investigations in December 2000. On 4 December 2000 the first issue of the new daily Republika carried a cover page article on an alleged partnership between him and other media magnates with facsimiles of a contract dated 17 September 1997. The aim of the contract among the - at that time - 100% owner of EPH, the owner of daily Slobodna Dalmacija and of Tisak newspaper distribution and the owner of local Zagreb TV - OTV was to establish...

On 8 February 2001 the Croatian Parliament passed the new Zakon o Hrvatskoj radiotelevizji (Law on Croatian Radiotelevision - HRT) and is about to significantly change the TV landscape in Croatia from 2002 onwards. The new Law states that the public broadcaster HRT shall privatise its third network within one year, while its section Odasilja´ci i veze (Transmitters and Links) will become a separate state owned public company by 1 January 2002. The Law also plans a further division of HRT in Hrvatska televizija (Croatian Television) and Hrvatski radio (Croatian Radio) by 1 July 2002. HRT will also...