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On 19 December 2011 the Constitutional Court delivered a decision on the new Hungarian media laws (Decision 1746/B/2010. AB). In its decision the Court annulled several provisions and established the need for further legislation. During 2010, as it is widely known, the Hungarian Parliament adopted a series of acts, thus it created a new legal and institutional framework of media regulation (see IRIS 2010-8/34). The most important elements of this legislation were: - Act CIV. of 2010 on Freedom of Expression and on the Basic Rules of Media Content (Media Constitution; see IRIS 2011-1/37); and -...

According to paragraph 6 of Article 10 of the new Media Act, which came into force on 1 January 2011, linear media service programmes that may seriously impair the physical, mental or moral development of minors, particularly because they involve pornography or extreme and/or unnecessary scenes of violence (Category VI programmes), may be published only if the media service holds the programme in an encrypted form and can only be accessed via a digit code available only to subscribers over the age of eighteen, or that uses another effective technical solution to prevent viewers or listeners under...

On 19 July 2011 a Recommendation on aspects necessary for the classification of programmes and on the displaying of symbols corresponding to the classification of programmes was issued by the Media Council of the National Media and Communications Authority (hereinafter referred to as “Media Council”). The Recommendation is aimed at ensuring the protection of minors from harmful media content. This Recommendation was issued after a public hearing held on 11 July 2011 with the participation of media service providers, distributors and lobby organizations of the Hungarian media market. The Recommendation...

In July 2011, the Media Council of the Nemzeti Média és Hírközlési Hatóság (National Media and Infocommunications Authority - NMHH) concluded public administration agreements on media co-regulation with the four Hungarian media self-regulatory bodies: the Association of Hungarian Content Providers (MTE), the Advertising Self-regulatory Body (ÖRT), the Association of Hungarian Publishers (MLE) and the Association of Hungarian Electronic Broadcasters (MEME). According to Art. 190 of Act CLXXXV of 2010 on Media Services and Mass Media (Media Act; see IRIS 2011-2/30) “the Media Council shall have the...

The purpose of the international tax credit instituted by the 2009 Budget and embodied in Art. 220 quaterdecies of the General Tax Code is to make it easier to shoot and manufacture in France cinematographic and audiovisual works originated by a non-French producer and containing elements that attach it to the culture, heritage or territory of France. Thus the tax credit is granted to a company that carries out the executive production of a work in France, subject to the company being approved by the national cinematographic centre (Centre National de la Cinématographie - CNC). The credit represents...