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The national parliamentary elections in Hungary will take place on 9 April 2006. On 12 January 2006 the Hungarian National Radio and Television Commission (“NRTC”) published its recommendations for the electronic media on the coverage of the national elections. The main goal of the recommendation is, according to its Chapter on “Goals and Basic Principles”, to better enforce the relevant articles of the Hungarian Media Act and the Act on the Elections Procedure on Balanced Broadcasting. The document consists of ten chapters: I. Goals and Basic Principles; II. General rules; III. The way of presentation;...

The Hungarian National Radio and Television Commission (NRTC) issued on 6 December 2005 a draft for a media act, developed by 6 media experts. This draft is intended to be discussed in public debate and could lead to a negotiable draft act for the Hungarian Parliament. The purpose of the draft act is to achieve compliance with the latest technical developments in the audiovisual sector, and to fulfill the relevant European legislative requirements. The draft, which consists of 14 chapters, introduces new decision-making bodies in the area of media content regulation. These are the National Radio...

A number of provisions concerning the (audiovisual) media can be found in the five country-specific Resolutions adopted to date by the Council of Europe's Committee of Ministers (CM) in the context of the Second Monitoring Cycle of the Framework Convention for the Protection of National Minorities (FCNM). In respect of Croatia, the CM recommends that the State authorities inter alia “encourage media engagement in the promotion of inter-cultural dialogue”. In respect of Denmark, the CM identifies as an issue of concern a “seam of intolerance within Danish society […] inter alia, in the political...

On 29 September 2005 the representatives of the Magyar Reklámszövetség (Hungarian Advertising Association - MRSz), the Önszabályozó Reklám Testület (Hungarian Advertising Self-regulatory Board - ÖRT)-thetwo main self-regulatory organisations of the national advertising industry - and of further 20 professional associations involved in matters of advertising -- signed the amendment to the Magyar Reklámetikai Kódex (HungarianCode of AdvertisingEthics). This code of conduct serves as the common basis of self-regulatory practices in the Hungarian advertising industry. Its original version was adopted...

In September 2005 three local cable operators launched an appeal against the decision of the Országos Rádió és Televízió Testület (National Radio and Television Commission - ORTT) permitting the Magyar Televízió Rt. (MTV. Rt. - one of the two Hungarian public service television companies) to provide a new national television channel called “m3”. According to the plans of the MTV. Rt. the programme “m3” would consist of news and related items. The new channel would be distributed via satellite. Under the rules of Act I of 1996 on radio and television broadcasting (Broadcasting Act), the provision...