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CROATIAN PARLIAMENT ADOPTS MEDIA ACT

ZAGREB, Oct 1 (Hina) - The Croatian parliament adopted a Media Act with a majority vote on Wednesday. The new law aims to ensure the external and internal independence of the media, protect the source of information and copyrights, and limit the concentration of ownership on the print media market.
ZAGREB, Oct 1 (Hina) - The Croatian parliament adopted a Media Act with a majority vote on Wednesday. The new law aims to ensure the external and internal independence of the media, protect the source of information and copyrights, and limit the concentration of ownership on the print media market. #L# Besides ensuring the external independence of the media, the law should also ensure that journalists are protected from interests within media companies via statutes which all media would be obliged to pass. The Act stipulates that the media are obliged to make their ownership structure public. All part-owners in a medium have to be identified by their full names. Under the new law, journalists and editors are entitled to tender a resignation or notice and receive fair compensation if a change in the ownership structure should significantly change the medium's orientation. Concentration of ownership on the press market is restricted. A publisher whose news dailies or weeklies make up more than 40 percent of all newspapers or news weeklies published in the country is barred from acquiring part-ownership in other media. The majority of MPs adopted a conclusion by the parliamentary Information Committee which turned down a media bill put forward by Democratic Centre's Vesna Skare-Ozbolt. Parliament adopted an amendment by the same committee under which an advertisement placed in the media for pecuniary or other compensation or for promotional purposes must be highlighted and visibly separated from other segments of the medium. Free advertising must also be highlighted. Disguised or fraudulent advertising is not allowed, nor is the advertising of weaponry and ammunition, tobacco and its products, medicines and medical procedure, alcohol and alcoholic beverages. Another Information Committee amendment was adopted under which the media are obliged to respect the right to identity protection of witnesses and injured parties. Identity may be revealed only with their knowledge and permission. The editor who allows the publication of data which might reveal the identity of a witness or injured party will be fined with 50,000 kuna (approx. EUR6,700). The new Media Act bans the publication of information revealing a child's identity if that might endanger the child's welfare. The publisher who reveals such information will be fined with up to one million kuna (approx. EUR133,000). (EUR1 = 7.5 kuna) (hina) ha sb

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