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On 10 July 2013, the Council for Electronic Media adopted new Rules on the amounts of licence fees and the manners of payment (see IRIS 2006-5/25) after concluding consultations with stakeholders and the public. The prior obligation to pay a concession fee was based solely on the number of inhabitants living in the area of coverage, and ranged from HRK 2,600 (circa EUR 350) to HRK 150,000 (circa EUR 19,990) for radio broadcasters and from HRK 5,200 (circa EUR 700) to HRK 450,000 (circa EUR 59,960) for television broadcasters. The new Rules envisage that the amount of an annual concession fee consists...

The Electronic Media Act (EMA), in Article 69, Paragraph 1, Subparagraphs 12 and 16, prescribes that the Council for Electronic Media (CEM) ensures the supervision over the implementation of provisions on the programming principles and obligations determined by the EMA and a special regulation, save for electronic publications. The CEM also considers the complaints of citizens on the media services providers’ behaviour with regard to the implementation of acts and takes measures in compliance with the EMA. Pursuant to the aforementioned provisions of the EMA, by maintaining continuous supervision...

On 6 July 2012, the Croatian Parliament adopted the Act amending the Croatian Radio-Television Act, which entered into force on 9 July 2012 after being published in the Official Gazette No. 76 of the same day. The exposition of the final draft of the Act Amending the Croatian Radio-Television Act stated that the object of the Act itself and its implementation was to fully achieve an adjustment of the public service broadcaster Croatian Radio-Television (HRT) in accordance with the acquis communautaire that had already been transposed into the Croatian Radio-Television Act in 2010 (Official Gazette...

On 8 July 2011, the Act Amending the Electronic Media Act was adopted. In particular it rules as follows: - It specifies the provisions of Article 52 regarding the transparency of the ownership structure of media service providers, so as to prescribe the obligation to submit to the Council for Electronic Media certified copies of documents relating to the acquisition of stocks or shares in the relevant provider’s company; - It prohibits legal activities that aim to conceal the ownership structure of a media service provider or the ownership of an acquirer of stocks or shares in such a media service...

On 17 March 2011, Dunja Mijatovic, the OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media, presented the regular report to the OSCE Permanent Council, the organisation’s main decision-making body. The report consists of overviews of issues raised in the participating countries, activities of the Representative in the last reporting period and planned activities for the next reporting period. A large part of the report consists of the analysis of issues raised in 56 of the OSCE participating States. The report touches upon several issues concerning media freedom, inter alia, media pluralism, editorial...