Switzerland: : Ständerat approves universal broadcasting charge

• Autores: Daniel Nikolaus Bittmann
• Localización: IRIS: Legal Observations of the European Audiovisual Observatory, ISSN-e 1023-8565, Nº. 8, 2014, págs. 16-17
• Idioma: francés
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• Resumen

  • After the Nationalrat (the larger of the two chambers of the Swiss Federal Parliament, comprising 200 members) had already given the green light, media reports indicate that on 19 June 2014 the Ständerat (the smaller chamber of the Swiss Federal Parliament, which represents the individual cantons and has 46 members) also agreed to the introduction of a universal broadcasting charge, which all companies and private households will have to pay, whether they own a reception device or not. Like the broadcasting charge that replaced the licence fee in Germany at the start of 2013, the new Swiss broadcasting charge is a universal charge that every household will have to pay.