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In its wrap-up report on the TACIS project "Free Press in the Democratic State" the European Academy in Berlin has published the results of a study carried out between December 1994 and September 1995 on the state of media in the Ukraine and Georgia. Journalist associations and scientific institutes from both countries took part in the project along with the Institute for Politics and Public Affairs in Amsterdam. One of the main questions at the outset was to find out whether media and press legislation were forcing the creation of independent media as an indispensable part of democracy. The report...

A draft Statute on Television and Radio is currently under consideration in Tajikistan. The draft Statute applies to all forms of television and radio except for: special closed video systems (industrial, technical, internal production, educational, internal production, educational, service, and others), radio (amateur broadcasters' communications, sport radio, and others). As well as other forms of communication operating on the basis of individual calls or using special channels for the dissemination of information for purposes and tasks other than those which are the responsability of television...

On 30 June 1995, the European Commission presented a Communication to the Council and the European Parliament in which it sets out a programme to stimulate the development of a European multimedia content industry and to encourage the use of multimedia content in the emerging information society. The programme would run from 1996 through 1999 at the cost of approximately ECU 100 million. The activities of the content industry are considered to be creation, development and packaging and distribution of content-based products and services. The content industry, according to the Commission, is composed...

The UK Government has responded to the National Heritage Select Committee's Report on Privacy and Media Intrusion . The central policy recommendation is that the Government continues to believe that press self-regulation is the appropriate method of regulating relations between the media and the public. However, the Government recommends improvements in the effectiveness and independence of the Press Complaints Commission (PCC) in the newspaper industry's Code of Practice. Specific recommendations include: - the PCC should pay compensation from a fund set up by the industry to those it judges...

On 3 August 1995 the Greek Parliament has adopted a law 'on the legal status of private TV and local radio, regulation of matters related to the electronic (i.e. radio and TV) market, as well as other arrangements'. The law is divided into four parts; Chapter A deals with private TV, Chapter B with local radio, Chapter C concerns matters related to the electronic market (radio and TV) and the press. The final Chapter, D, regulates matters related to the Ministry of Press and Mass Media, the legal entities under its supervision and to the National Broadcasting Council. The provisions concerning...