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On 1 September 2003, the Hungarian Communications Authority Hírközlési Felügyelet (CA), the body which has a mandate equivalent to a National Regulatory Authority (NRA) according to European Union terminology, announced that the Hungarian Government approved the CA's annual report on its activities and management applicable to the year 2002 (Report). The Report consists of four main parts: (i) The Activities and Management of the Communications Authority; (ii) The Situation of the Communications Market; (iii) The Experiences related to the Operation of the Communications Market; (iv) The Opinion...

The new services are currently at an experimental stage, and are available in the area around Budapest via the digital terrestrial transmitter operated by AH. According to the company's press release it is intended to extend the services to the whole territory of Hungary and to satellite broadcasts as well. The introduction of such new technologies raises questions about the applicability of the instruments of the existing Hungarian regulatory framework. In the present case the newly-introduced digital superteletext service falls under the scope of Act No 1 of 1996 on Radio and Television Services,...

On 24 October 2002, the Hungarian National Public Service Television (M1) announced a public tender aiming to outsource the sales of its entire available commercial airtime, including sponsorship possibilities, to a company on an exclusive basis (see No. 43 / 2002 of the Public Procurement Newsletter). The tender had been based on the Act XL of 1995 on Public Procurement. The applicants had to fulfill financial, technical and professional requirements, among others, in order to have reliable bank credit records and they had to prove strong experience in the field of advertisement sales activities....

On 2 December 2002 the president of the Országos Rádió és Televízió Testület (National Radio and Television Commission - ORTT, the independent regulatory authority for the media) announced her resignation. She was elected to the presidency by the previous Parliament - general elections had been held in April 2002 - in February 2000 for a four-year term of office. According to her statement, financial pressure caused by the planned budgetary decisions in respect of the ORTT has reached a level which - beyond her controlfundamentally endangers the proper functioning of the regulatory authority....

In a decision of autumn 2002 the Országos Rádió és Televízió Testület (National Radio and Television Commission - ORTT, the independent regulatory authority for the media) stated that TV 2 - a national commercial television channel - violated the provisions of Act No 1 of 1996 on Radio and Television Services (Broadcasting Act) aimed at protecting minors by broadcasting a version of "Big Brother". Beyond this statement the ORTT has also imposed a HUF 6,900,000.- (approx. EUR 290,000.-) fine on the broadcaster. Neither such kind of reality shows nor relevant ORTT's decisions in this regard have...