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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...

On 19 July 2011 the European Commission sent requests for information in the form of letters of formal notice, the first step in the process of an EU infringement procedure, to 20 EU member states. The member states in question, namely Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Cyprus, the Czech Republic, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia and Spain, have not yet notified to the Commission measures to implement the new EU Telecoms Package, formally adopted after two years of heated negotiations at the end of 2009...

On 11 March 2011, the European Commission annnounced that it has closed its preliminary probe into anti-competitive practices by collective rights management organisations (CMOs) in Hungary and Romania. The Commission feared that SCAPR, the international association of national performers’ collective management organisations, EJI, the national CMO in Hungary, and CREDIDAM, the national CMO in Romania, had been pursuing an anti-competitive policy regarding the membership of the organisations. Leading to restricted competition in the European Union and especially in Hungary and Romania, this would...

On 7 March 2011 the Hungarian Parliament adopted some amendments of great significance to the new media acts (Act CIV of 2010 on the Freedom of the Press and the Fundamental Rules on media content as well as Act CLXXXV of 2010 on Media Services and Mass Media). The amendments were put forward by the government following an agreement between the European Commission and the Hungarian Government reached on 16 February 2011 (see IRIS 2011-3/24). According to the amendments the obligation to provide balanced coverage applies henceforth only to linear media services (i.e., television and radio broadcasting)...