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REM (Regulatory Body for Electronic Media) is an independent and autonomous organization that exercises public authority in the field of electronic media in the Republic of Serbia. Its goal is to enhance the quality and diversity of media services, as well as to contribute to the preservation and development of freedom of thought and expression. REM is functionally and financially independent, and its main bodies are the Council (which consists of nine members) and the Director. The organization's headquarters is located in Belgrade, at Nikola Pašić Square No. 5.
The committee did not approve the list of candidates for the election of a member of the REM Council from national minorities.
The Committee of the Assembly of Serbia for Culture and Information did not adopt the list of candidates for the election of a member of the Regulatory Body for Electronic Media (REM) from the ranks of national minorities. However, the proposal by Committee member Nebojša Bakarec from the Serbian Progressive Party was accepted, requesting the nominator to supplement the documentation for candidate Sreten Jovanović within the next seven days. The other candidate for the national councils' member of the REM Council is Ištvan Bodžoni.
REM: There was no abuse of a child in the program "Important Matters" on RTS.
In the program "Important Matters", there was no misuse of minors for political purposes, and the nature of that program content and its participation was adapted to the age, maturity, and reason for participation, in accordance with the Law on Electronic Media, concluded the opinion of the Monitoring and Program Analysis Service of the Regulatory Body for Electronic Media (REM) following a report from the President of the RTS Management Board.
The authorities reduce the REM to an empty shell in order to maintain continuity of control over the media space.
The authorities in Serbia selectively apply the law in the selection of the Council of the Regulatory Body for Electronic Media (REM), reducing the independent regulatory institution to an empty shell that, as interlocutors of FoNet believe, aims to maintain continuity of control over the media space.
UNS: Unacceptable airing of violent scenes on Pink television.
The Association of Journalists of Serbia (UNS) requests that, due to the scenes of violence broadcast on Pink television in recent evenings, the expert services of the Regulatory Authority determine violations of the Law on Electronic Media and that the Council of REM be urgently constituted in order to impose appropriate measures.
MFRR: The Election of the REM Council Undermines Democratic Principles
The Media Freedom Rapid Response (MFRR) platform today once again expresses concern over the undemocratic process by which the National Assembly conducted the latest election of members to the Regulatory Body for Electronic Media (REM), a key media regulator in Serbia.
Saša Mirković on the election for the REM Council: We are in a kind of vacuum; there is political instrumentalization of the process.
"From this perspective, it is completely clear that we will not have a new composition of the REM Council in the foreseeable future," stated Saša Mirković, a representative of ANEM and a previous candidate for a member of the REM Council in the first process, to Mašina.
Four newly elected members of the REM Council have submitted their resignations.
Four out of eight members of the REM Council, who were elected this week in the Assembly of Serbia, have submitted their resignations. We are publishing the statement in its entirety:
The parliamentary committee has decided to repeat the procedure for proposing candidates for the ninth member of the REM Council.
The Committee for Culture and Information of the National Assembly of Serbia today adopted a Decision to initiate a renewed procedure for proposing a candidate for a member of the Council of the Regulatory Body for Electronic Media (REM) at the proposal of the authorized proposer, the national councils of national minorities, after no candidate in that category received a majority of votes in Parliament for election and thus the ninth member of that body was not elected.
The Assembly of Serbia voted in favor of all eight out of nine members of the REM Council.
The members of the Assembly of Serbia voted today to approve a new but incomplete composition of the Council of the Regulatory Body for Electronic Media (REM), selecting eight out of nine members from 18 candidates for this body.
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