Ministry of Culture and Sciences

- the Ministry of Culture,

in expert committees at the Ministry of Culture (members, presidents),

The Ministry of Culture of Montenegro is conducting preliminary activities for the establishment of a regional centre for cultural heritage management with the seat in Cetinje.

Within the area of culture and media, special attention will be devoted to the principle of gender equality in the framework of programmes and projects carried out and funded by the line ministry.

In the preparation of the plan, besides regulations, programmes and plans from the spheres of environmental protection, nature conservation, the protection of natural resources, the protection of cultural heritage and environmental starting-points, the guidelines and background provided by ministries and organisations responsible, with regard to the content of the plan, for individual environmental protection matters or the protection or use of natural goods or the protection of cultural heritage, must also be taken into account.

The Under-Secretary of the State at the Ministry of Culture stated that media ownership was subject to the Mass Media Act.

An acquisition of more than a 20% of the ownership (or management) share is subject to the prior approval by the Ministry of Culture.

After that Pro Plus applied to the Ministry of Culture for approval of the purchase of a share in excess of 20 percent in POP TV and Kanal A.

In February 2002, the Ministry of Culture considered the Wrst such application applying criteria laid down in Article 58 of the Mass Media Act.

When entering the network into the media registry in 2002, the Ministry of Culture did not check if Infonet fulfilled the requirements set down by law.

He defines his role as that of an intermediary between artistic projects and Austria's political leadership, the city of Vienna and the Ministry of Culture.

Under the then valid law, the defining of the procedure and the method of submitting projects to rtv Slovenia was the responsibility of the Ministry of Culture.

Data from the media registry are publicly available on the web pages of the Ministry of Culture, and the law envisages high penalties for those who fail to meet these requirements.

On the request of the author, the Ministry of Culture invited media representatives, journalists and experts to participate in the preparations for the second reading of the proposed law.

Ministry of Education, Cultural Affairs and Science

The bill drafted by the Estonian Ministry of Culture in 1995, proposing a system of regulation (licensing) of new publications owned by foreigners, is just one example of abortive attempts to introduce media legislation.

This article, which at first glance define s restrictions on media concentration very clearly, imposes a very demanding task upon the Ministry of Culture, or rather, in our opinion, it is a task that is impossible to realize. As a matter of fact, according to the provisions of Article 58, when considering an application for the acquisition of shares in excess of the prescribed 20%, the Ministry of Culture should assess the currently prevailing situation in the media (or advertising) market.

In other words, the Broadcasting Council decides whether a specific case represents concentration, and that decision is then adopted as a preliminary opinion of the aforementioned Agency, on the basis of which the Ministry of Culture issues approval.

The resources (the proposed sum was sit 5 billion) should have been allocated by a commission formed by the Ministry of Culture, and whose members would be appointed by the minister in accordance with the proposal of parliamentary groups in the National Assembly.

The Council thus concluded that this issue should be adequately resolved within the shortest possible time. At its session in April 2003, the National Assembly Committee for Culture, Education, Young People, Science and Sports approved this report by the Council and, among other things, demanded from the Ministry of Culture and the Government that the articles referring to restriction of concentration should be amended.

Towards the end of 1998, at the request of the Ministry of Culture, which was preparing the proposed new media law, I wrote a paper about the most urgently needed modifications of the previous law concerning the right of correction and reply, and included rather detailed grounds for the proposed changes.

With this amendment, prescribing public tenders for program production, the state (or rather the Ministry of Culture) sought to ensure transparency in selecting independent producers for rtv Slovenia (prior to the amendment, this was regulated by the third paragraph of Article 6 of the rtv Slovenia Act).

The Secretariat for Legal Issues and Legislation with the National Assembly and the State Secretary at the Ministry of Culture responsible for the media also drew attention to the legal disputability of this proposal. The State Secretary even announced the filing of a complaint with the Constitutional Court.

Ministerie van Onderwijs, Cultuur en Wetenschappen/(Ministry of Education, Culture and Science)

Article 58 of this law stipulates that in order to acquire an ownership or management stake, or a share in the voting rights in the assets of a broadcaster of 20 percent or more, it shall be necessary to obtain approval from the Ministry of Culture, which shall issue such approval following a prior opinion from the Agency for Telecommunications, Broadcasting and Postal Services.

The proposal for this law, which was drawn up by the Ministry of Culture (15 February 2000), in the section on the protection of plurality and diversity of the media (Articles 56 and 57), prescribed restrictions on cross-ownership (similar to those observed in France), the transparency of media management, define d associated persons, and it also included clauses on competition.

In the 2001/2002 report, the Broadcasting Council, which takes decisions regarding concentration, explicitly stated that paragraph 3 of Article 58 of the Mass Media Act, which establishes the cases in which the Ministry of Culture may refuse to issue approval, is not sufficiently detailed, and that a methodology for establishing media concentration had not yet been formulated.

According to the media registry records at the Ministry of Culture as of 30 April 2004, the shareholders (holding more than a 5 percent stake) in Mladina d.d. are members of the editorial office, Bernard Nežmah (6.92 percent), Miha Fras (5.54 percent) and Robert Botteri (6.92 percent); director Andrej Klemenc (14.45 percent); and Delo tčr (7.53 percent) and Factor Leasing d.o.o. (18.77 percent).

The formerly proposed Article 54, which limited the maximum ownership share in a newspaper publisher company or a broadcast company to one-third or even less (20%), was taken out of this proposal for the purpose of facilitating the flow of capital within the media sector. Instead the proposal of the Ministry of Culture was that any natural or legal person could have an unlimited ownership share in a media company, or even be a majority or single owner.

other museums which receive more than 50 % of their funds from the Ministry of Education, Cultural Affairs and Science

other organisations and institutions in the field of education, culture and science which receive more than 50 % of their funds from Ministry of Education, Cultural Affairs and Science

Menntamálará suneyti s (Ministry of Culture and Education),

Ministry of Cultural Affairs