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The new bill, already sent to Parliament by the government in June last year, is now ready for the first reading in Parliament (probably in April) as the competent parliamentary committee (the Committee for Culture) has adopted the draft. The draft has been changed significantly since the government sent it to Parliament. In particular, certain powers of the Ministry of Culture have been abolished in the draft and were transferred to the Broadcasting Council as an independent regulatory authority. According to the revised draft, the Broadcasting Council's competencies will be increased significantly....

In the summer of 1999 the main amendments to the "Law on Basic Guarantees with respect to the Voting Rights of Citizens and Their Right to Take Part in Referenda" (Law on Basic Guarantees) was adopted. The Law on Basic Guarantees is the main law that determines the principles for implementing all federal, regional and local elections. The changes made to the Law on Basic Guarantees had made it necessary for all other laws governing the organisation of various elections to be brought into line with it. That is why incorporating the changes to the Presidential Elections Law was crucial to the successful...

At the beginning of the second quarter of the year 2000 television fees in Romania were increased to 30,000 Leu (ROL, just under 3 DEM) at a time when the yearly average salary is currently 1,750,000 ROL (around 200 DEM). Public service television in Romania has more than three and half million viewers. Under Article 43 of law n° 41/1994 on the organisation and operation of the Romanian radio and television companies of 16 June 1994 (see IRIS 1998-8: 9), public broadcasting is financed from several different sources. Alongside state subsidies consisting of television fees paid by viewers, which...

On 11 November 1999 Latvia amended its Radio and Television Law. That Law was originally adopted in 1995 along the lines of the European Convention on Transfrontier Television. Following the amendments to the Convention, the text of the act needed to be amended as well. The change to the Latvian Law was also important in view of the country's intention to enter the European Union and to harmonize its legislation with that of the European Union. Some new definitions were added such as the definitions of "teleshopping" and "sponsorship" (Article 2). According to the text of the act, "teleshopping"...

Pursuant to the Communications Act of 31 July 1997, no. 249 (Istituzione dell'Autorità per le Garanzie nelle Comunicazioni e norme sui sistemi delle telecomunicazioni e radiotelevisivo, see IRIS 1997-8: 10) on 1 March 2000 the Autorità per le Garanzie nelle Comunicazioni (the Italian Communications Authority -AGC) adopted the regolamento concernente la diffusione via satellite di programmi televisivi (regulation no. 127/00/CONS concerning satellite television broadcasting). The Regulation applies to: 1) Italian broadcasters whose programmes are received in States Parties to the European Convention...