Act No. 135 / 1997 Coll.
Act amending and supplementing Act No. 252 / 1994 Coll., on Radio and Television Charges, Act No. 468 / 1991 Coll., on the Operation of Radio and Television Broadcasting, as amended, Act No. 103 / 1992 Coll., on the Council of the Czech Republic for Broadcasting, as amended, and Act No. 484 / 1991 Coll., on the Czech Radio, as amended
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Effective from 01.07.1997
135
THE LAW
of 12 June 1997
amending and supplementing Act No. 252 / 1994 Coll., on radio and television charges, Act No. 468 / 1991 Coll., on the Operation of Radio and Television Broadcasting, as amended, Act No. 103 / 1992 Coll., on the Council of the Czech Republic for Broadcasting, as amended, and Act No. 484 / 1991 Coll., on the Czech Radio, as amended
Parliament has decided on this law of the Czech Republic:
Act No. 468 / 1991 Coll., on the operation of radio and television broadcasting, as amended by Act No. 597 / 1992 Coll., Czech National Council Act No. 36 / 1993 Coll., Act No. 253 / 1994 Coll., Act No. 40 / 1995 Coll., Act No. 237 / 1995 Coll. is amended as follows:
1. In Paragraph 7 (1), the following sentence is added at the end: "In the total transmission time from which the percentage of advertising is calculated, the transmission of teletext cannot be counted."
2. Article 7 (2) reads as follows:
"(2) In radio broadcasting, advertising time may not, by law, exceed three minutes of daily broadcasting time for operators on each full circuit and five minutes of daily broadcasting time for each regional circuit, licensed operators and operators registered with 20% of daily broadcasting time. ';
3. in Article 9 (2), the following point (c) is inserted after point (b):
"(c) to provide at least 25% of broadcast programmes with hidden or open subtitles for the hearing impaired,"
Points (c) and (d) shall be renumbered points (d) and (e).
(4) Paragraph 9 (5), including footnote 5, shall be deleted.
5. In Paragraph 10 (4), the following sentence is added at the end: "In assessing the application, the applicant's readiness to procure a certain percentage of broadcast programmes with hidden or open subtitles for the hearing impaired shall also be taken into account. '
Article 11 (1) (b) reads as follows:
"(b) evidence of the amount of the capital, the contribution of individual members, the amount of their shares, the social or founding agreement, the statutes and the list of shareholders, bank information; similar data if the applicant is a natural person; ';
7.
Change of licence
(1) The operator is obliged to ask the Council in advance to agree to a change concerning the information contained in the application (§ 11) or to comply with the conditions laid down in the decision granting the licence (§ 12 (2)).
(2) Upon request pursuant to paragraph 1, the Council shall decide, in accordance with the circumstances of the case, to amend the licence granted. The amendment may be made only after the Council has approved it.
(3) The Council is required to decide on the amendment referred to in paragraph 1 within 60 days from the date on which the operator's request was received. If the Council has not decided within that period, it shall be deemed to have given its assent to the amendment.
(4) Evidence of approved changes shall be submitted by the operator to the Council within 30 days of such changes. In the case of changes entered in the Commercial Register, the operator shall submit to the Council an extract of the Commercial Register within 30 days of the date of entry of the changes in the Commercial Register.
(5) The Council may amend the terms of the licence without the consent of the operator even if it is necessary to comply with the international obligations by which the Czech Republic is bound. "
8. Paragraph 20 (4) (g) reads as follows:
"(g) without the consent of the Council, it has made changes to the information contained in the application or to changes concerning compliance with the terms of the licences granted, which could justify a change or withdrawal of the licence (Sections 14 and 15), or has failed to fulfil the obligation set out in Section 25a;"
9. In Article 21, the following is inserted after the words "decision to refuse registration (§ 17),": "decision to change registration (§ 17)."
10. The following Section 25a is inserted after Section 25:
The operator of radio or television broadcasting with a licence granted under the existing rules shall be obliged to complete the information specified in the application pursuant to § 11 (1) (b) by 31.12.1997. '
The Act of the Czech National Council No. 103 / 1992 Coll., on the Council of the Czech Republic for Radio and Television Broadcasting, as amended by the Act of the Czech National Council No. 474 / 1992 Coll., Act No. 36 / 1993 Coll., Act No. 331 / 1993 Coll., Act No. 253 / 1994 Coll. and Act No. 301 / 1995 Coll., is amended as follows:
In Paragraph 3 (1), "nine 'is replaced by" 13'.
The Act of the Czech National Council No. 484 / 1991 Coll., on the Czech Radio, as amended by the Act of the Czech National Council No. 36 / 1993 Coll., Act No. 253 / 1994 Coll. and Act No. 301 / 1995 Coll., is amended as follows:
Paragraph 11 (2) reads as follows:
"(2) In radio broadcasting, advertising time may not exceed three minutes of daily broadcasting time for operators in the law on each national and five minutes of daily broadcasting time on each regional circuit. The time for advertising not used on one of the circuits shall not be used on another. '
That law shall take effect on the first day of the month following that of its publication, with the exception of Article II (2) and Article IV, which shall take effect on 1 January 1998.
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Regulation Information
| Citation | Act No. 135 / 1997 Coll., amending and supplementing Act No. 252 / 1994 Coll., on Radio and Television Charges, Act No. 468 / 1991 Coll., on the Operation of Radio and Television Broadcasting, as amended, Act No. 103 / 1992 Coll., on the Council of the Czech Republic for Broadcasting, as amended, and Act No. 484 / 1991 Coll., on the Czech Radio, as amended |
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| Regulation Type | Law |
| Author | - |
| Collection | Code of Laws |
| Date of Promulgation | 26.06.1997 |
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| Effective from | 01.07.1997 |
| Effective until | - |
| Status | Valid |
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