Legal Acts in English

Public information shall be realised through media.

The rules on public information shall ensure and protect the release, receipt and exchange of information, ideas and opinions through the media with the aim of promoting the values of a democratic society, preventing conflicts and preserving peace, truthful, timely, authentic and complete informing and enabling free personal development.

This Law shall regulate the manner in which the freedom of public information is realised, that shall, in particular, include freedom to collect, publish and receive information, freedom to form and express ideas and opinions, freedom to print and distribute newspapers and freedom to produce, provide and publish audio and audio-visual media services, freedom to disseminate information and ideas through the Internet and other platforms, as well as freedom to issue the media and pursue the activities of public information.

This Law shall additionally regulate the principles of public information, public interest in public information, provision and allocation of funds for the realisation of public interest, impressum, summary impressum and identification, publicity of the information on the media and Register, protection of media pluralism, position of editors, journalists and representatives of foreign media, distribution of the media, temporary storage and insight into a media record, special rights and obligations in public information, personal information, means and procedures of legal protection, supervision of the application of legal provisions, as well as the penal provisions.