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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.
Antonela Riha: Flagrant Violation of the Law During the Elections for the REM Council
A total of 78 proposers and 16 candidates have so far withdrawn from the process of electing members of the Regulatory Body for Electronic Media (REM), leaving a significant opportunity to reevaluate the political, social, and media environment in which this formally independent body is supposed to be elected.
Reconsideration of Candidates for the REM Council: Why is it Important for This Body to Exist?
Two months later, a new competition, but the outcome is the same – another withdrawal of candidates from the selection of members of the Regulatory Body for Electronic Media Council. After 78 authorized proposers and 16 candidates withdrew from the process, it is clear that this attempt to form the REM Council, which has not existed for more than six months, has failed.
78 authorized proposers, 16 candidates have withdrawn from the process of electing members of the REM Council so far.
We, the authorized proposers, candidates, and candidates for members of the Regulatory Body for Electronic Media (REM), hereby inform the public that we are withdrawing from further participation in this process. Our decision comes after none of the total of 30 objections submitted by legitimate proposers were considered, and warnings about serious violations of the law and misinterpretations of fundamental legal norms were ignored.
Both Željko Hubač and Ivan Lalić have withdrawn from the election for REM.
The Association of Dramatic Artists of Serbia has announced that it is withdrawing from the further procedure for the selection of members of the Council of the Regulatory Body for Electronic Media, supporting the decision of its members, Željko Hubač and Ivan Lalić, to withdraw their candidacies due to a lack of transparency and numerous irregularities in the election process.
Gorica Popović and Mladen Matičević have withdrawn from the process of selecting members of the REM Council.
Film artists Gorica Popović and Mladen Matičević have withdrawn from the selection process for members of the Regulatory Body for Electronic Media (REM), film associations announced today.
Mirković: The selection of the new REM is motivated by the government's desire to open Cluster 3 and secure funding from the Growth Plan.
It would be good for REM to be the first or one of the few independent institutions that functions properly in abnormal circumstances, but the authorities want things to remain the same, believes Professor Aleksandra Krstić from the Faculty of Political Sciences, while Saša Mirković from ANEM thinks that the election of a new REM Council is motivated by the government’s desire to open Cluster 3 and receive funds from the Growth Plan.
SĆF: The Committee for Culture and Information suspends its own interpretation of the law.
In a scandalous vote at today's meeting of the Committee for Culture and Information, the Slavko Ćuruvija Foundation, the Share Foundation, and the Center for Democracy Foundation were restored to the status of authorized proposers of the REM Council, despite the Committee's earlier interpretation of the law, which stated that only citizen associations, and not organizations registered in the Registry of Endowments and Foundations, could hold this status.
Published biographies of 46 candidates for members of the REM Council.
The official website of the Assembly of Serbia has published the biographies of 46 candidates for members of the Regulatory Body for Electronic Media (REM) Council. The next step is for all authorized proposers of candidates for members of the REM Council from nine groups to meet in order to agree on two joint candidates from each group. Following that, a public hearing will be organized by the Committee for Culture and Information, during which 18 candidates for members of the REM Council will be presented. Subsequently, the list of these candidates will be submitted to the Assembly of Serbia, which will elect nine candidates in a plenary session.
Adopted list of proposing organizations and candidates for members of the REM Council.
The Committee of the Assembly of Serbia for Culture and Information today approved the list of proposing organizations and candidates for members of the Council of the Regulatory Body for Electronic Media (REM), who supplemented their documentation by midnight on June 5th.
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