In the Rulebook for issuing national frequencies, REM removed the provision according to which television stations are obliged to have 20 percent of cultural, children's and documentary programs
The existing regulation, according to which national TV programs are mandatory, has been abolished to have more than 20 percent cultural, children's and documentary content in its programs.
On May 8, REM announced on its website that the "Regulation on conditions and criteria for issuing a license for the provision of media services" was adopted, which should replace the previous one from 2016.
The Rulebook, among other things, defines the criteria for the allocation of national frequencies.
The new rulebook, like the previous one, specifies the diversity of programs as a criterion, but the regulation lacks, according to several media associations, the following important provision, which existed in the previous rulebook:
"A quality program is considered a program in which scientific-educational, cultural-artistic, documentary or children's programs, i.e. programs for minors, together or individually, make up more than 20 percent of the total annual published program".
In REM's document on the public debate on the new regulations, which was published on May 8, it was stated that several media associations, among others, the Independent Association of Journalists of Serbia and the Slavko Ćuruvija Foundation, submitted a proposal to include the provision on the minimum scope of quality programs in new rulebook.
REM states in the document that this proposal was rejected.
The reasoning is that the Law on Electronic Media, as a higher legal act, does not oblige the media to broadcast so many different media contents, so it cannot be done even by a lower legal act such as the rulebook.
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