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Fines of MDL 40,000 for two distributors that violated the ‘anti-propaganda’ law

18 May 2018
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În Moldova
At the meeting of the May 17, the Broadcasting Coordination Council (BCC) penalized two service distributors by applying them a fine of MDL 40,000 for rebroadcasting some TV channels that are prohibited by the legislation in force.

According to BCC controls, the Sky-Max TV operator in Ciorescu commune rebroadcast programs of the Pervyi Kanal and Zvezda television broadcasters from the Russian Federation. BCC was notified about this by the inhabitants of the commune.
 The second penalized operator is TV-TRUC, which manages the Prut cable TV studio in Cahul town and rebroadcast programs of the RBK and RTR Planeta television broadcasters, who took over the news programs from Rossiya Vesti.

The BCC members found that both operators violated the provisions of the Broadcasting Code stipulating that the broadcasters and service distributors may broadcast television and radio programs with informative, analytical-informative, military, and political content only if produced in the EU Member States, the USA, Canada, as well as in the countries which have ratified the European Convention on Transfrontier Television. The Russian Federation has not ratified this Convention.

The BCC Chairman Dragoş Vicol added that the Council will continue to carry out repeated inspections to ensure broadcasters’ compliance with the legal provisions.