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10. 12. 2012

SEVENTH ANEM MONITORING PUBLICATION

The seventh issue of the specialized ANEM Publication "Legal Monitoring of the Serbian Media Scene"

The Contents:

Introduction (with summarized results of the legal monitoring of the Serbian media scene in the period July-December 2012 and a brief description of the contents of this Publication)

four expert authors' texts on media issues that were important in the past six months, as well as those that are always relevant and present:

The Reasons For and Against the Establishment of Regional Public Service Broadcasting - author: Kruna Savović, attorney at law (what is and what is not controversial in the Media Strategy, in part that deals with the regional public service broadcasting; why the existing public service broadcasting is not a good model for the functioning of potential public service broadcasting at the regional level; what are the real reasons for supporting this idea; what steps towards creating a more favorable environment for local and regional broadcasters are needed; why would the establishment of regional public service broadcasting be just the cementing of the status quo, and why is this not good);
The Necessity to Regulate Cable Distribution and Broadcasting of Television Program - author: Slobodan Kremenjak, attorney at law (who are the providers of media service media content distribution and to what extent are their services used by citizens; what the preservation and promotion of media pluralism depends on; when and which obligations can Ratel impose and to which operator of distribution and broadcasting of the media content; whether and how the licenses for cable, IPTV and satellite DTH broadcasting are issued; what does a re-broadcasting of program services include, and what not; why is the regulation of cable, IPTV and satellite DTH distribution of media content important);
The State and the Media in the Function of Realizing Citizens' Right to Information - author: Rodoljub Šabić, the Commissioner for Information of Public Importance and Personal Data Protection (what is the relationship between the media and the state in the context of the exercise of the right of citizens to information; obligations of media and of the state in the context of the realization of the citizens' right to be informed; obligations of the state in the context of exercising the right to free access to information; what does the obligation of authorities to prepare and publish an Information booklet on their work, do they meet this obligation and how; the right of the state and the right of journalists to a secret; what does the Law on Classified Data regulate and how, and what are the effects of this law);
Access to Information in European Human Rights Law - author: Dragoljub Popović, Judge of the ECHR (the role of the media in society - the media as "watchdog" of democracy; the conditions under which freedom of expression may be limited; cases from the Court's practice: journalists' access to information - the issue of access to resources and the protection of journalists' sources; public access to information/whistleblowers - release of confidential documents and information, protection of whistleblowers' rights; imparting information; the most important features of the mechanism of protection of the freedom of expression);

and the fifth text,

European Court of Human Rights, Information Notes on the Court's Case-Law - a brief overview of two judgments of this Court, concerning the application of the Article 10 of the European Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms: the first referring to the freedom to impart information - the failure to allocate radiofrequency to licensed TV broadcasters, and the second, to the freedom of expression - absolute prohibition of filming an interview with an inmate inside prison.