Just a short time after withdrawing from the considered anti-defamation law, where experts denounced that it was intended to capture online media, the government foresees another change, this time for audiovisual media.
As in the first initiative, the powers are again requested to be assigned to the AMA.
More specifically, the Audiovisual Media Authority, where members are elected by parliament, will have the obligation to draft a code of conduct. Even check their implementation to the end.
Even in the report presented for the initiative, it is acknowledged that the draft law includes for the first time the concepts of "co-regulation and self-regulation", through Codes of Conduct, acts that will define the standards and practices that must be respected by media service providers that offer services audio and audiovisual media.
In fact, the law initially foresees that it will be the AMA that will determine the codes of conduct and at the point where the media themselves will approve their codes to make them public on online sites.
But referring further to the law, any violation that will be done to the codes that will be approved by the state institution will be accompanied by a fine and up to the suspension of the license making it mandatory and not just a regulator.
These changes are in Article 30 of the current law, as they are placed among a number of articles that define protection from discrimination as well as the declaration of beneficial owners, reports OraNews.
Among other things, the law foresees changes in the schedule for advertisements, while the media will be financially burdened by adding the obligation to make information accessible to people with sensory disabilities.