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On 12 January 2016, Decree No. 380 of 29 December 2015, implementing the state budget of the Republic of Bulgaria for 2016, was promulgated in State Gazette, issue 3/2016. The State Budget Act was promulgated in the State Gazette, issue 96/2015 on 9 December 2015. The State Budget Act provides for an on-budget subsidy for the Bulgarian National Radio of BGN 42,112,000 (~ EUR 21.530.000) and an on-budget subsidy for the Bulgarian National Television of BGN 65,147,000 (EUR 33.310.000) according to Article 1, paragraph 2. The sum of the state funding received has not changed in comparison to the previous...

On 17 December 2015, the Council of the Communications Regulatory Agency (CRA) adopted a new set of by-laws on audiovisual and radio media services amending and replacing the previous set from 2011, when the provisions of the Audiovisual Media Services Directive were first introduced into the regulatory framework of Bosnia and Herzegovina (see IRIS 2012-1/9). This set includes rules on Audiovisual Media Services (Pravilo o audiovizuelnim medijskim uslugama), rules on Radio Media Services (Pravilo o medijskim uslugama radija), a Code on Audiovisual and Radio Media Services (Kodeks o audiovizuelnim...

In light of the heaviest political crisis since the independence of the country, the four biggest political parties agreed on regulation of political advertising. According to many experts, political advertising severely influences the editorial policy of the media outlets, especially during elections. Based on the political agreement, which has been achieved with mediation by the European Union, the National Parliament amended the Electoral Code (Изборен законик) in order to ensure that the political parties will have equal access to the media during the early elections, scheduled for April 2016....

On 1 December 2015, the Autorità per le garanzie nelle comunicazioni (Italian Communications Authority - AGCOM) by means of Resolution no. 658/15/CONS approved the evaluation of the economic size for 2014 of the Integrated System of Communications (SIC), i.e. the economic sector consisting of daily and periodic press, annual and electronic publishing (also through the Internet), audiovisual media services and radio services, cinema, external advertising, initiatives of communications of products and services, and sponsoring. Based on this evaluation, for the year 2014 the overall value of the SIC...

The UK Communications Regulator, Ofcom, has for the first time imposed a financial sanction on a broadcaster for inadequate compliance procedures. International Television Channel Europe (ITCE) is a general broadcaster on the digital satellite platform, aimed at the Bangladeshi audience in the UK and elsewhere in Europe. A standard licence requires licensees to adopt procedures to ensure that their programmes comply in all respects with their licence conditions and to ensure that such procedures are observed, in particular by ensuring that there are sufficient qualified or trained staff to do so. In...