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Law On Transparency Of Media Ownership

Original Language Title: Lov om åpenhet om eierskap i medier

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Law on disclosure of ownership in media

Date LAW-2016-06-17-64
Ministry of Ministry of Culture
Last modified
Published In 2016 booklet 8
Istrontrecation 01.07.2016
Changing
Announcement 17.06.2016
Card title Law on disclosure of ownership in media

SECTION 1. Law's purpose

Law's purpose is to ensure openness about proprietary ownership in Norwegian media.

SECTION 2. Lovens Scope

The law applies to enterprises that run day-press, television, radio or electronic media, as well as enterprises through ownership or cooperation agreements have influence over such enterprises.

SECTION 3. Media ReguTasks Tasks

The media is supposed to help create greater openness, attention and knowledge of the ownership conditions in Norwegian media. The vision shall overtake and systematic information on the ownership conditions, and the information shall be made available to the public.

SECTION 4. Illumination alike

Any duties to provide the Media Authority the information protection requires in order to carry out their tasks by the law. Enlightenment duties include both information on ownership in Norwegian media and information on cooperation agreements that provide an agreement map corresponding influence over the editorial product as ownership. Information can be required given written or oral within a set deadline.

Information required after the first clause can be given without the hurdle of the legislature that otherwise impose the ligation authorities, other tax authorities and authorities who have tasked with the task of monitoring public regulation of the errant business. Such secrecy is also not an obstacle to the fact that documents that are located with such authorities are issued for scrutiny.

The Ministry can provide regulation on the scope and review of the Enlightenment.

SECTION 5. Compulsive

To ensure that the ordinance after Section 4's first clause is overheld, the Media Safety Act can be responsible for the fulfillment of the fulfillment. The pitfalls of the state of the treasury.

The donut can be determined as a running multior as a one-time fee. At continuous mulkt, the Media Authority may decide that the mulkten shall be determined for every day, week or month that go after a determined deadline for the purpose of duty runs out, without the duty of duty. By foreclosure in the form of a one-time fee, the Media Authority may decide that the mulkten shall be paid when a determined deadline for the obligation of duty runs out, without the duty of duty.

The media authority can in very honest cases reduce or drop-on-run foreclosure, including interest.

The Ministry can provide regulation on illegsm of compulsitation, conditions for foreclosure, foreclosure, and interest rates at delayed payment.

SECTION 6. Kelag Authority

Compres over the Media Regulatory Act after this law or by regulation determined in the co-state of the Act of the Board of the Media Act (Medieclamenda).

The Comcast Board may not be able to by its own measures rev the Media Regulatory Act.

SECTION 7. Istrontrecation

The law takes effect from the time the King decides. 1

1 1 July 2016 ifg. res. 17 June 2016 # 717.