legislation

Care for the Public Interest or Introduction of Indirect Subsidies for the Audiovisual Media Sector

The draft law on changes to the LAAVMS (we first saw the text in July of this year, when we received it through the informal communication channels of the community of professional associations and civil society organ...

Policy document – Regulation of Media Ownership

The Media Development Centre is continuously involved in the ongoing public debate on the necessary reforms in the media sector in the Republic of Macedonia. MDC believes that the adoption of the changes to the audiov...

Policy Document: Future interventions in media legislation

MDC has made contributions to the process of resolution of some of the burning issues that are in the focus of the ongoing process of reforms of media legislation in Macedonia. This brief document aims to offer additi...

Comments to the Draft-Law on Changes and Amendments to the LAAVMS

The Media Development Centre has prepared and submitted comments to the latest version of the Draft-Law on Changes and Amendments to the Law on Audio and Audiovisual Media Services, through the National Electronic Reg...

Policy Brief: Media and Electoral Legislation – Amended version

Media Development Centre prepared a policy document with proposals for legal changes that would ensure fair and equal media presentation of electoral campaigns. Media coverage and reporting on electoral campaign, i...

Monitoring of Implementation of Media Legislation – Third Quarterly Report for 2015

The Media Development Centre (MDC), under the programme for monitoring of the implementation of the Law on Audio and Audiovisual Media Services (LAAVMS) and the Law on Media (LM), monitored the work of the Agency for ...

Boyko Boev: Macedonia’s Media Statutes resemble ships in Vardar River

[caption id="attachment_1208" align="aligncenter" width="640"] Boyko Boev at a training[/caption] In 2011 Thomas Bingham, at the time the most senior judge in England and Wales, published The Rule of Law, which has...

Debate: Macedonian Media System Needs “Resetting”

The participants in the public debate “What Kind of Media System Macedonia Needs?”, organized on April 2, 2015, at Holiday Inn Hotel’s “Millennium 2” hall, by the Media Development Center and the Foundation Open Socie...

Proposals and suggestions for the public debate on the development of non-profit media in the Republic of Macedonia

In response to the call to the civil sector, issued by the Agency for Audio and Audiovisual Media Service, to join the public debate on the development of non-profit media, the Media Development Center (MDC) prepare...