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E. Culture and Mass Media

1. Law on the Protection of Cultural Heritage
2. Act on the Implementation of the Public Interest in Culture
3. Law on the Fund for Amateur Cultural Activities of the Republic of Slovenia
4. Law on Librarianship
5. Law on Radio and Television Slovenia
6. Statute of the Public Institution RTV Slovenia
7. Law on Mass Media

1. Law on the Protection of Cultural Heritage

(Official Gazette: 7/99)

Article 6, Paragraph 6

Ethnological monuments shall be areas, buildings, groups of buildings, objects of everyday use and artefacts which bear witness to the life and work of Slovenes, members of the Italian and Hungarian minority and other peoples on the territory of Slovenia.

2. Act on the Implementation of the Public Interest in Culture

(Official Gazette: 75/94)

Article 8, Paragraph 7

Forms of facilitating cultural development of the Italian and Hungarian ethnic communities and measures for the preservation of the cultural heritage in the ethnically mixed areas, which is particularly linked to the historical presence of the ethnic communities.

Article 10

The Government shall establish the Council for Culture as a deliberative body.
The Government shall appoint the chairperson and one third of the members on the nomination by the minister, one third on the nomination of the Cultural Chamber of Slovenia and professional associations of cultural workers who are not members of the Chamber and have more than 100 members, and one third on the nomination of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts, pools in the field of amateur cultural activities organised for the area of the state and of the Italian and Hungarian ethnic communities.
The number of members of the Council, the duration of their term of office and the method of their work shall be defined by the Government with the Act of the establishment of the Council.

3. Law on the Fund for Amateur Cultural Activities of the Republic of Slovenia

(Official Gazette: 1/96)

Article 3

The national cultural programme in the field of amateur cultural activities shall be implemented by:

the Fund for amateur cultural activities of the Republic of Slovenia;
self-governing communities of autochthonous Italian and Hungarian ethnic communities in Slovenia;
amateur cultural societies and their associations respectively which fulfil conditions of annual invitations of the Fund for financing or co-financing cultural programmes from public funds;
other groups, individuals and organisations, active in the field of amateur cultural activities and fulfilling the conditions of the annual call for tenders of the Fund for financing and co-financing of the cultural programmes from public means,
cultural organisations and societies of Slovenes living in neighbouring and other countries.

Article 5

The principal tasks of the Fund shall be as follows:

to implement the national cultural programme covering amateur cultural activities and to monitor and analyse the conditions in its sphere of activity;
to finance and co-finance amateur cultural programmes from means of the Fund;
to supervise the work and the expenditure of public means by performers of the national cultural programme in the field of amateur cultural activities;
to gather proposals for financing or co-financing of programme and projects in the field of amateur cultural activities by means of public invitations;
to conclude agreements on financing or co-financing the aforementioned programmes and projects with selected performers of the same;
to provide a professional and organisational support for amateur cultural societies and their associations, groups and individuals in performing their amateur cultural activities, and to provide support for local communities in their efforts to create conditions for the realisation of cultural events in the area of regional branches;
to provide an administrative and expert support for associations of cultural societies which perform common tasks for their member societies;
to plan and implements co-operation with corresponding foreign organisations;
to attend to educational programmes in the field of culture;
to promote achievements in the field of amateur cultural activities and to present the cultural production;
to publish publications from its sphere of activity.

Based on an agreement with a local community or a self-governing community of autochthonous Italian and Hungarian national community in Slovenia, the Fund may perform tasks under the foregoing Paragraph also for the aforesaid communities.

4. Law on Librarianship

(Official Gazette SRS: 27/82)

Article 31

The central libraries in ethnically mixed areas shall particularly deal with the professionalism and organisation of library activities intended for members of the Italian and Hungarian national minorities.

5. Law on Radio and Television Slovenia

(Official Gazette: 18/94)

Article 3

According to this law the public service comprises the creation, preparation and broadcasting of:

two national television programmes,
two national radio programmes,
one radio and one television programme for the Italian and Hungarian ethnic communities respectively (hereinafter called minority programme),
radio and television programmes for Slovene national minorities in the neighbouring countries,
radio and television programmes of regional centres in Koper/Capodistria and Maribor.

In the programmes from the previous paragraph (hereinafter called: programmes of the RTV Slovenia) the RTV Slovenia assures:

a variety of quality informative, cultural, educational and entertainment broadcasts,
the creation and broadcasting of cultural and artistic works,
broadcasts for Slovene national minorities in neighbouring countries, Slovene emigrants and migrant workers;
the exercising of the constitutional rights of the Italian and Hungarian ethnic communities in the field of radio and television public information, connecting the ethnic communities with their nations of origin and the inclusion of cultural and other achievements of the Italian and Hungarian nations in national minority programmes;
providing equal information on all events in all parts of Slovenia;
providing information about the life and work of Slovene national minorities living in neighbouring countries;
including non-commercial programmes of other radio and television organisations and other producers in the Republic of Slovenia and of quality foreign RTV programmes, especially from the countries of Europe;
informing the public abroad about events and achievements in cultural and other fields in the Republic of Slovenia and affirmation of Slovene radio and television creativity abroad.

Providing information about events and representing of the interests of the regions of Slovenia, programmes for ethnic communities and programmes for Slovene national minorities is assured by RTV Slovenia, especially through units in Maribor, Koper/Capodistria and Lendava and through local programmes, "Murski val" in Murska Sobota, and "Koroški radio" in Slovenj Gradec.
RTV Slovenia assures the file recording of its programmes.

Article 5

The national programme has to cover the territory inhabited by at least 90 percent of the inhabitants of the Republic of Slovenia, or 90 percent of the territory inhabited by members of the Italian and Hungarian ethnic communities when the national minority programme is concerned.

Article 6

In-house productions by RTV Slovenia, co-productions and the commissioned production of informative, cultural, educational and entertainment programmes must comprise at least 50 % of the programme time of the programmes of RTV Slovenia, or at least two hours daily for the national minority radio programme or at least 30 minutes for the national minority television programme.
Commissioned productions are, according to this law, parts of the programmes of RTV Slovenia, or national minority programmes, prepared by other radio and television organisations in the Republic of Slovenia, free-lance producers and other natural persons and legal entities, registered for the creation of RTV programmes, audio, video, or film production (hereinafter called producers).
RTV Slovenia offers public competition for the creation of the programmes from the previous paragraph in which, in the framework of the adopted programme scheme and, at the suggestion of the Editor-in-Chief, determines the genre, form, quantity, programme and technical standards, the actual starting price for one minute of the programme and other conditions determined by the law and the statute.
Parts of the programmes of RTV Slovenia are submitted in accordance with the procedure determined by the Minister of Culture; the way and the procedure prescribed for the submission of the works that are financed by the budget of the Republic must be taken into consideration.
The national minority programme or part of this programme can be handed over to another RTV organisation or producer only with the consent of the Programme Council of the national minorities programme.
The amount of the commissioned production must include at least one fifth of the production from the first paragraph of this article.

Article 14

The RTV Slovenia acquires the means for creating, preparing, broadcasting and diffusion of its programmes from:

subscription payments for RTV Slovenia programmes (hereinafter called subscription );
the activities determined in Articles 12 and 13 of this law;
funds from the of state budget;
advertising and publishing of other paid messages, sponsoring and from other sources.

The surplus of the income over outgoing expenses, acquired by the activity from Articles 12 and 13 of this law, is used by the RTV Slovenia to perform and develop activities from Article 3 of this law. The Council of RTV can decide to use the surplus for development and other needs of the activities from Articles 12 and 13 of this law.
The state budget supports:

part of the national minorities programmes;
part of RTV Slovenia programmes for Slovene national minorities in the neighbouring countries, for emigrants and foreign workers and for the foreign public;
part of the costs for the establishment, maintenance and activation of the network for the broadcasting and diffusion of RTV Slovenia programmes and local non-commercial programmes;
individual projects of cultural, scientific and general educational importance, proposed by the competent ministries.

The means raised by subscriptions are used for creating, preparing, broadcasting and diffusing RTV Slovenia programmes and for the maintenance and operating of the broadcasting network needed for the transmission and diffusion of local non-commercial RTV programmes.

Article 16

The managing body of RTV Slovenia is the Council of RTV Slovenia consisting of 25 members:

l. five members are appointed by the Parliament, mostly respecting the proportional representatives of the members of parliamentary parties; however, the Parliament cannot appoint deputies and state officials to the Council of RTV Slovenia;

2. one member is appointed by the Italian national community;

3. one member is appointed by the Hungarian national community;

4. one member is appointed directly by:

the University of Ljubljana and the University of Maribor,
the Slovene Academy of Arts and Sciences,
the Association of Slovene Film Producers,
the Association of Slovene Writers and Association of Theatre Artists of Slovenia,
the Association of Cultural Organisations of Slovenia,
the Association of Journalists of Slovenia,
the Council of the Organisation of Disabled Persons of Slovenia,
the Union of Sports Organisations of Slovenia,
the Association of Employers of Slovenia,
the Cooperative Union and Farmers' Association,
the Coordination Committee of Organisations and Parties of the Retired People of Slovenia,
representative trade-unions as employee's organisations,
the Youth Council of Slovenia and Union of the Friends of the Youth,
religious communities in Slovenia.

Deputies, members of the National Council, state officials and members of the presidency of political parties, as well as persons employed in RTV Slovenia, or who used to be employed in RTV Slovenia in previous years, cannot be elected as members to the Council of RTV Slovenia.

5. three members are elected from those employed by RTV Slovenia by direct election in such a way that informative activity, cultural-artistic activity and technology are represented; however, in accordance with this Item, members appointed by the Council of RTV Slovenia cannot be elected members of the Council of RTV Slovenia.

Article 18

The Council of RTV Slovenia:

adopts the statute;
appoints and dismisses the Director-General of RTV Slovenia, Director of radio programmes and Director of television programmes, Manager of the unit Transmitters and Communications and Directors of national minority programmes, Editors-in-Chief and one third of the members of programme councils for the national minority programme;
determines the cost of subscription;
adopts the financial plan and final account and decides on the use of a possible surplus of income over the outgoing expenses;
determines programme standards and programme concepts in accordance with the law and international acts and annual programme schemes with a financial plan;
determines the way of reporting and temporary or permanent discharging of a receiver and facilities and other special conditions for the payment of the subscription for these receivers;
decides on other questions determined by the law and the statute.

The decision on matters from Items 1 to 6 of the previous paragraph and on other subjects that are so determined by the statute is deemed adopted when it is adopted by a majority of all the members of the Council of the RTV Slovenia.
The Government of the Republic of Slovenia gives its consent on the amount of the subscription and facilities and other special conditions.
The National Assembly of the Republic of Slovenia gives consent to the statute of the RTV Slovenia and to amendments to the statute.

Article 20

The Director General of RTV Slovenia is appointed by the Council of the RTV Slovenia on the basis of a public application. The National Assembly of the Republic of Slovenia gives consent to the appointment of the Director General of RTV Slovenia.
The director of radio programmes and director of television programmes and manager of the organisational unit Transmitters and Communications are appointed by the Council of RTV Slovenia on the basis of public application following the recommendations of Director General.
The director of programmes from the previous paragraph cannot at the same time be the manager of an organisational unit.
The director of the national minority programmes is appointed by the Council of RTV Slovenia on the basis of public competition following the recommendations of Director General.
The editor-in-chief of programmes is appointed and relieved by the Council of RTV Slovenia on the basis of public competition on the proposal following the recommendations of the director of radio programmes or director of television programmes after the previous consent of representatives employed on the editorial board, the activities of which are led by the editor-in- chief.
The structure and method of appointing representatives and their authorities are defined by the statute.
The editor is appointed and dismissed by the director of the radio or television programme at the proposal of the competent editor-in-chief.
The director-general, director of radio programmes, director of television programmes, director of national minority programmes, managers of organisational units and editors-in-chief are appointed for a period of four years.

Article 22

The Council of RTV Slovenia appoints programme councils for the national minority programmes (hereinafter called the Programme Councils).
Self-governing ethnic communities appoint to the Programme Council of the previous paragraph two thirds of the members for a period of four years, with a possibility of re-election.
The Programme Council gives consent to the appointment of the editor-in-chief of the national minority programme and to the amount and programme concept of this programme.
The Programme Council deals with the carrying out of the programme concept, complaints and suggestions of the viewers and listeners, makes suggestions to the Council of RTV Slovenia for the consideration of certain questions linked to the national minority programme, and performs other tasks determined by the statute.
RTV Slovenia must publish the positions of the Programme Council regarding the problems of national minority programmes.

Article 26

The statute of RTV Slovenia determines in particular: the organisation of the public institution, bodies and their authorities, conditions for the appointment and relieving of duty of the director-general, director of radio programmes, director of television programmes, directors of national minority programmes, managers of organisational units and editors-in-chief, the number and field-of-work of editors-in-chief and editors, the number of programme councils for national minority programmes and their members, and other questions that are important for the activities and operation of the institution.

Article 31

The function of the director-general after the enforcement of this law is performed by the present director-general, appointed in accordance with the provisions of the Law on RTV Slovenia (Official Gazette RS, no. 14/90, 24/90, 43/90).
The Council of RTV Slovenia must, regardless of the provisions from the previous paragraph, within 30 days after its constitution, confirm the appointment of the present director-general. If the Council of RTV Slovenia does not confirm the appointment by a majority of votes it has to officially announce a vacancy for director-general within 10 days.
The Council of RTV Slovenia must officially announce a vacancy for the director of television programmes and directors of national minority programmes within 30 days after its constitution.
Until the director of programmes from the previous paragraph is elected, editors-in-chief of radio or television programmes respectively hold this position.
The statute of RTV Slovenia is to be coordinated with the provisions of this law within 60 days after the constitution of the Council of RTV Slovenia.

6. Statute of the Public Institution RTV Slovenia

(Official Gazette: 66/95)

Article 7

Activities of the RTV Slovenia as a public institute:

The creation, production and broadcasting of the following radio and television programmes:

Two national television programmes;
Three national radio programmes;
One radio and one television programme for the Italian and one radio and one television programme for the Hungarian national community (hereinafter referred to as the national minority programmes);
Radio and television programme for Slovene national minorities in the neighbouring countries in accordance with interstate treaties and protocols;
Radio and TV programmes for the foreign public;
Radio and television programmes of the regional centres in Koper and Maribor;
Teletext, RDS (Radio Data System) programme.

The RTV Slovenia must guarantee that radio and TV programmes include:

Quality, varied and balanced informative, cultural, educational and entertaining programmes;
Creation, remaking and broadcasting of artistic works;
Programmes for Slovene national minorities in the neighbouring countries, Slovene immigrants and expatriates;
Exercise of the constitutional rights of the Italian and Hungarian ethnic communities in the fields of radio and television public information, maintaining connections between the ethnic communities and their nations of origin, and the inclusion of cultural and other achievements of the Italian and Hungarian nations in the national minority programmes;
Equal provision of information about events in all parts of Slovenia;
Provision of information about the life and activities of Slovene national minorities in the neighbouring countries;
Non-commercial programmes of other radio and television organisations and of other producers in the Republic of Slovenia, and the inclusion of quality foreign RTV programmes, particularly from European countries;
Informing the foreign public about events and achievements of the Republic of Slovenia in cultural and other fields, and presentation of Slovene radio and television creativity abroad;
Recording of radio and TV programmes.

RTV Slovenia shall provide information about events and the presentation of the interests of the regions of Slovenia, programmes for national communities and programmes for Slovene national minorities in particular through units in Maribor, Koper and Lendava, and through local programmes, "Murski val" in Murska Sobota, and "Koroški radio" in Slovenj Gradec.

Article 9

RTV Slovenia shall include the following units:

Programme unit Television Slovenia,
Programme unit Radio Slovenia,
Organisational unit TV Production,
Organisational unit Radio Production,
Regional RTV Centre: Regionalni RTV Center Koper-Capodistria-Centre Regionale RTV Koper-Capodistria,
Regional RTV Centre Maribor with two studios for the Hungarian programme in Lendava - Magyar Nemzetségi Murosok Lendvai Szerkesztöség,
Organisational unit Musical Production,
Organisational unit Transmitters and Communications,
Organisational Unit Založba kaset in plošc (Record company).

Regional RTV Centre Koper-Capodistria

Article 18

The programme of the TV Koper-Capodistria and the programme of the Radio Koper-Capodistria shall integrate into the regional RTV centre Koper-Capodistria, which shall create, produce and broadcast television and radio programmes in Slovene, television and radio programmes for the Italian national community, television and radio programme for the Slovene minority in Italy. The regional RTV centre shall also produce programmes for national radio and TV programmes.

Article 19

The editorials of the regional radio and TV programmes and the editorials of the radio and TV programmes shall produce the radio and TV programmes from the preceding Article in the Italian language.
The production of the radio and TV programmes shall be managed and coordinated by the editors-in-chief of these programmes in cooperation with the directors of radio and TV programmes.
The production of the television and radio programmes in the Italian language shall be coordinated by the director and editors-in-chief of the programmes for the Italian national community.
Organisational, business and other general matters shall be managed and coordinated by the manager of the regional RTV centre.

Regional RTV Centre Maribor

Article 20

The Regional RTV Centre Maribor shall create, produce and broadcast the regional television and radio programmes, the television and radio programmes for the Hungarian national community, the television and radio programmes for the Slovene minorities in Austria and Hungary. It shall also produce broadcasts for national radio and TV programmes, and broadcasts in foreign languages.

Article 21

Radio and TV programmes from the preceding Article shall be produced by the editing departments of the regional radio and TV programmes and by the editing departments of the radio and TV programmes in the Hungarian language.
The production of the radio and TV programmes shall be managed and coordinated by the editor-in-chief of the regional radio programmes in cooperation with the director of radio programmes.
The production of the regional TV programmes shall be managed and coordinated by the editor-in-chief of the regional TV programmes in cooperation with the director of TV programmes.
The production of the television and radio programmes in the Hungarian language shall be coordinated by the director and editors-in-chief of the programmes for the Hungarian national community. The management office of the radio and TV programmes for the Hungarian national community shall be in Lendava.
Organisational, business and other general matters shall be managed and cooridnated by the manager of the regional RTV centre.

Programme directors

Article 40

Programme directors shall be senior workers of the RTV Slovenia in the area of radio and television programmes.
The RTV Slovenia shall have programme directors for the following programme areas:

Television programmes of the RTV Slovenia,
Radio programmes of the RTV Slovenia,
TV and radio programmes for the Italian national community,
TV and radio programmes for the Hungarian national community.

Article 41

Programme directors shall be appointed by the Council of the RTV Slovenia on the basis of a public invitation for applications and preliminary opinion of the director general.
The proposal for appointing the director of the national minority programmes shall be submitted by the Programme Council of the National Minority Programmes.
Programme directors shall be appointed for four years, and may be re-appointed after the expiration of this period.

Editors-in-chief

Article 47

Editors-in-chief shall be appointed and dismissed by the Council of the RTV Slovenia on the basis of a public invitation for applications and with preliminary consent of the presidency of editorial-production units.
The Programme Council of the National Minority Programmes shall give its consent to the appointment of the editors-in-chief of the national minority programmes.
Editors-in-chief shall be appointed for four years.
Editors-in-chief may be dismissed under the same conditions as programme directors.

Article 48

As editor-in-chief may be appointed any person fulfilling the legal and the following special conditions:

Must have citizenship of the Republic of Slovenia;
Must have a university degree in the social or humanistic sciences (VII);
Must have performed 4 years of active work as journalist (for editors-in-chief of informative and educational programmes), or 4 years of creative work in the cultural or artistic field (for editors-in-chief of cultural and artistic programmes), or 4 years of active work as a journalist or 4 years of creative work in the cultural or artistic field (for editors-in-chief of entertainment and sport programmes);
Must have active knowledge of at least one world language;
Must have active knowledge of the Italian language as a special requirement for appointment as editor-of-chief of the Italian programmes, or of the Hungarian language for appointment as editor-in-chief of the Hungarian programmes;
May not be a deputy of the National Assembly or an official of a political party.

Programme Councils of National Minority Programmes

Article 52

Two Programme Councils shall operate in the area of national minority programmes within the RTV Slovenia:

1. Programme Council of Radio and TV Programmes for the Italian National community;

2. Programme Council of Radio and TV Programmes for the Hungarian National community.

Article 53

The Programme Councils shall:

Examine the realisation of the programme concept;
Give consent to the scope and programme concept of the national minority programmes;
Examine comments and proposals provided by viewers and listeners, relating to the national minority programmes;
Submit proposals to the Council of the RTV Slovenia to examine issues relating to the national minority programmes;
Examine the initiatives, opinions and proposals submitted by journalists and editors, which relate to the production and broadcasting of the national minority programmes;
Propose the appointment and dismissal of Directors of the national minority programmes;
Give consent to the appointment and dismissal of editors-in-chief of the national minority programmes;
Deal with other issues relating to the national minority programmes.

Article 54

The Programme Councils shall be established by the Council of the RTV Slovenia. The Programme Councils shall consist of seven members. Five members shall be appointed by the self-governing ethnic communities, and two members shall be appointed directly by the Council of the RTV Slovenia.
Public officials, experts and other persons familiar with the issues of the ethnic communities shall be appointed members of the Programme Council.
The procedure of drawing up the list of candidates shall be managed and coordinated by the Chairperson of the Council.
The president and deputy president shall be elected by the Programme Council from amongst the members of the Programme Council.
The term of office shall be 4 years. The members may be re-appointed.

Article 55

Decisions adopted by the Programme Council shall be valid if more than half of its members are present at the session.
Positions, opinions, proposals and other decisions shall be adopted by the majority of the members present at the session. Positions and proposals relating to the programme concept, programme scheme, annual programme, and appointment of the programme director and editor-in-chief shall be adopted by the majority of all members of the Programme Council.
The Programme Council shall regulate the method of work in detail by rules of procedure.

7. Law on Mass Media

(Official Gazette: 18/94)

Article 3

The State of Slovenia supports the development of non-commercial mass media that are important for the citizens of Slovenia in exercising the right to be informed and for the preservation of Slovene national and cultural identity; mass media meant to inform the Italian and Hungarian ethnic communities and Slovene national minorities in Italy, Austria and Hungary; and for the development of the technical infrastructure necessary for these mass media to be published and broadcast.
The State of Slovenia supports the development of non-commercial mass media for blind and deaf citizens of Slovenia, and the technologies that are adopted for their use so that they can exercise their right to be informed; and the development of the technical infrastructure necessary for these mass media to be published and broadcast.
The Government of the Republic of Slovenia shall issue special regulations governing the way and criteria for the co-financing of the mass media from Paragraphs 1 and 2 of this article.

Article 28

Advertisements and other paid information are published in the mass media and in other forms of public information in the Slovene language except in cases when a means of the mass media appears in a foreign language.
The provision from the previous Paragraph does not hold true for territories of mixed ethnic character where Italian and Hungarian language respectively are official languages apart from Slovene.

Article 40

The publisher of daily press and real as well as juridical persons or a group of persons who are the owners or co-owners of the publisher of the daily press cannot set up their own RTV organization or create, prepare and broadcast RTV programmes nor can they have more than 10 % of the shares or more than 10 % of the rights of management in another publisher of a daily press or RTV organization.
An RTV organization as well as real and juridical persons or a group of persons who are the owners of an RTV organization cannot publish their own daily press or set up an enterprise, a company, or an institution for publishing a daily press, or have more than 10 % of the shares or more than 10 % of the rights of management in the publisher of a daily press or other RTV organization.
The limits from the first Paragraph of Article 39, pertaining to the ownership shares do not hold true for the funds from Article 22 of the Law on ownership transformation of enterprises (Official Gazette RS, no. 55/92, 7/93 and 31/93).
An individual RTV organization can create, prepare and broadcast only radio or only television programmes unless otherwise determined by the law.
Regardless of the provisions of this Law an institution, set up by a self-governing ethnic community or Student’s organization, can register to publish the press and other forms of public informing and to create, prepare and broadcast RTV programmes.

Article 52

Should there be multiple applicants for the same radio-diffusion channel the priority in getting a free channel will go to the RTV organization the broadcasting of which will include:

a national RTV programme or a local non-commercial programme,
an RTV programme that would be an addition to the contents of an already existent RTV programme in a certain territory,
an RTV programme having a prevailing part of its own production in the Slovene, Italian or Hungarian language, on the territory of communities populated by Italian and Hungarian national minorities respectively,
a politically independent RTV programme.

While creating the proposal the council takes the following things into consideration:

the variety of the programme offer
the level of radio-diffusion development in a certain environment,
the opinion of a competent body of the local community regarding arguments in favour and against the covering of a certain territory with a new RTV programme,
the economic position of the applicant (the capability of financing said activity) and technological competence to broadcast an RTV programme,
the number of potential users (spectators and listeners),
the previous experience of the applicant in the field of radio-diffusion,
the duration (quantity) of the programme,
the willingness of the applicant to share the radio-diffusion channel with other Slovene RTV organization.

In obtaining a radio-diffusion channel for a local RTV programme priority is assigned to the RTV organization with a seat on the territory of the local community for which the programme is meant and which is not the owner of a cable-distribution system. An RTV organization is not allowed to give up its radio-diffusion channel to another RTV organization.
Before putting forward the proposal the Council is to get the opinion of the administration body of the Republic competent for traffic and communications regarding conformity to international plans and other technical conditions for the acquisition of a radio-diffusion channel.
Apart from the data determined by regulations governing radio communications, the applicant must present to the Council the data from Article 42 of this law.

Article 67

The importation of the foreign press is free.
The foreign press can be imported to the Republic of Slovenia by entrepreneurs and juridical persons registered for the distribution of the press with the intention of distributing this press.
A self-governing ethnic community may import Italian and Hungarian press respectively for their own needs.
Foreign press meant for distribution at trade fairs, cultural, scientific, economic, sports and similar events in the Republic of Slovenia may be, apart from by the persons from the previous Paragraph, also imported and distributed on these events by the organizers of the events as well as by the Slovene and foreign organizations taking part in the event.

Article 68

The responsibility for RTV programmes or parts of a programme (broadcast) that are component parts of the Slovene RTV organization is borne according to this law by the Editor-in-Chief of the programme which broadcasts a foreign programme. Foreign programmes or parts of programmes must be translated into Slovene unless national minority RTV programmes of the Italian and Hungarian ethnic communities respectively are concerned.
An RTV organization in the Republic of Slovenia may exceptionally broadcast programmes without translating them into Slovene in the following cases:

it may broadcast individual parts of programmes if it is inevitably necessary to retain the topical issue of the information, direct transmissions and authenticity of events and if subtitling is not possible,
it may broadcast parts of the programmes meant for foreigners in the Republic of Slovenia or for foreign public,
it may broadcast parts of programmes meant for education.

An RTV organization must announce the programmes from the previous Paragraph in Slovene and explain the reasons for not translating the programme into Slovene.
Foreign programmes distributed by cable operators in compliance with the second Paragraph of Article 55 do not need to be translated into the Slovene language.

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