Bosnia-Herzegovina: : New watershed rules for reality TV

• Autores: Maida C'ulahovic'
• Localización: IRIS: Legal Observations of the European Audiovisual Observatory, ISSN-e 1023-8565, Nº. 3, 2016
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • 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 medijskim uslugama i medijskim uslugama radija), and a Code on Commercial Communications (Kodeks o komercijalnim komunikacijama). Both the scope and the titles of the above mentioned regulations remain the same. For the most part, the amendments concern certain technical and stylistic improvements based on the need to update, further elaborate or clarify some definitions and provisions that have turned out to be unclear in practice, such as a clearer procedure for claiming the right of reply and more detailed criteria for license award in a public tender procedure. The procedure for granting local broadcasters an exemption from the obligation to report on European works and European works created by independent producers has also been simplified. In addition, the new regulatory framework introduces certain new requirements for the providers of audiovisual and radio media services, such as the obligation to keep a daily log of all programmes, as well as the obligation to keep programme recordings for 6 weeks instead of 14 days, as previously required.