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In May 1996 the Bulgarian Radio and Television Bill was introduced in Parliament for a second and final reading and it is expected to be adopted in the course of July. The Bill declares the freedom of creation and distribution of radio and TV programmes, guarantees their independence from political and economic interference, and prohibits all forms of censorship. It provides for the establishment of a National Council for Radio and Television (NCRT) as a specialised and independent public entity. The NCRT will consist of 11 members, 7 of which will be nominated by Parliament in proportion to the...

The regional broadcasting corporations grouped together in ARD have jointly lodged a complaint against the private television broadcaster PRO SIEBEN with the Regional Court in Stuttgart because the broadcaster regularly contravenes the regulation on advertising time contained in paragraph 4 of the Agreement between the Federal States on broadcasting in united Germany (RfStV) when broadcasting films. Under this provision, films and television films other than series, light entertainment and documentaries, and lasting more than 45 minutes may only be interrupted once in any one complete 45-minute...

In IRIS 1995-10: 10, we reported on a draft law of the Ukraine High Council of 26.04.1996 amending the Ukrainian Broadcasting Act of 21.12.1993. Since then, on 02.06.1996, the law amending the Ukrainian Broadcasting Act has been adopted. The amending law redefines and supplements inter alia the provisions concerning the definition of basic concepts (§ 1), the jurisdiction of the State broadcasting bodies (§ 4), the national broadcasting council (§ 5), anti-monopoly regulations (§ 7), the structure of national broadcasting (§ 11) and the State broadcasting corporation (§ 12). The amended Broadcasting...

On 7 May 1996, the European Commission amended the proposal for a revision of the 1989 "Television without Frontiers" Directive which it presented to the European Parliament and the Council on 31 May 1995. The amendments were made on the basis of the first reading in the European Parliament which resulted in a Resolution on 14 February 1996 ( see: IRIS 1996-3: 6). Parliament approved the Commission's proposals subject to a number of amendments it had made. The amended proposal also takes into account the opinion of the Economic and Social Committee of 13 September 1995 (CES 972/95) and the discussions...

The Minister-Presidents of the Länder have agreed in Berlin on the draft of an Agreement between the Länder (Federal States) on media services. The draft was submitted to the groups concerned for the first time on 3.3.1996. From January 1997, this would replace the previously applicable Agreement between the Länder on interactive videotext. The Länder have proposed their own unified regulations for the new services equivalent to the federation's planned legislation on the multi-media. This would cover all services not included in the Agreement between the Länder on broadcasting. Thus the Agreement...