Greece: Application of law on licensing of digital television under controversy

• Autores: Alexandros Economou
• Localización: IRIS: Legal Observations of the European Audiovisual Observatory, ISSN-e 1023-8565, Nº. 5, 2016
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • An intense political controversy over licensing of digital television has arisen in Greece after the unsuccessful effort to nominate new members of the Regulatory Authority Ethniko Symvoulio Radiotileorasis (National Council of Radio and Television - ESR) in February 2016. According to Act 3439/2015, ESR must, first, give its opinion to the competent minister on the number and the kind of licences to be allocated and the auction’s starting price, and, secondly, carry out the auction procedure and issue licences (see IRIS 2016-1/16). However, a decision on the nomination of ESR members, which is taken by a majority of 4/5 of a 23-member special parliamentary body Diaskepsi ton Proedron (Conference of the Presidents), has not been reached. Opposition political parties refused to vote for the proposition presented by the President of the Parliament and claimed that Act 3439/2015 should be changed in order to give the regulatory body exclusive decisional powers on every aspect of licensing procedure.