- Title I
- GENERAL PROVISIONS
- Article 1. Definition of terms.
- Article 2. The scope of the Law
- Article 3. The legislation on TV and broadcasting
- Article 4. Main principles of the state policy in the sphere of TV and broadcasting
- Article 5. Guarantees of will activity of broadcasting organizations
- Article 6. Inadmissibility of broadcasting organizations’ freedom activity abuse
- Article 7. The government and regulations in the sphere of broadcasting
- Article 8. Protection of economic competition in the sphere of broadcasting
- Article 9. Protection of interests of the state and national broadcasting production
- Article 10. The use of languages in an information work the broadcasting organizations
- Title II
- THE STRUCTURE OF NATIONAL TV AND BROADCASTING. ESTABLISHMENT, FINANCING AND MATERIAL BASE OF BROADCASTING ORGANIZATIONS
- Article 11.The structure of national TV and broadcasting of Ukraine
- Article 12. Constituent and authorized documents at establishment of broadcasting organizations
- Article 13. The state broadcasting organizations
- Article 14. The National Television Company of Ukraine and the National Radio Company of Ukraine
- Article 15. The broadcasting organization of the Public broadcasting
- Article 16. The municipal broadcasting organizations
- Article 17. The private broadcasting organizations
- Article 18. The public broadcasting organizations
- Article 19. Financing of broadcasting organizations
- Article 20. Material-technical base of the broadcasting organization
- Title III
- THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE NATIONAL BROADCASTING INFORMATION AREA, THE BROADCAST LICENSING AND THE STATE REGISTRATION OF INFORMATION ENTITY.
- Article 21. The Plan of the National broadcasting information area development.
- Article 22. The creation and development of broadcast channels, broadcast network and TV network.
- Article 24. Application for the issue (extension) of the licence for transmission
- Article 25. Competition on reception of the licence for transmission
- Article 26. Competitive guarantee
- Article 27. The licence for announcement
- Article 28. The program concept of transmission of the broadcasting organization
- Article 29. Dereliction of statement on licensing for transmission without consideration
- Article 30. Refusal in licensing for transmission
- Article 31. Payment for delivery, continuation, renewal and delivery of duplicate of licence for transmission
- Article 32. Licensing for a transmission
- Article 33. Prolongation of validity of licence for transmission
- Article 34. Delivery of duplicate of licence for transmission
- Article 35. Renewal of licence for transmission
- Article 36. Validity of licence for transmission
- Article 37. Cancellation of the licence for transmission
- Article 38. The state registration and running the State register of broadcasting organizations of Ukraine
- Title IV
- TV AND BROADCASTING IN MULTI-CHANNEL TELEVISION NETWORKS. SYSTEMS OF COLLECTIVE RECEPTION. RELAYING.
- Title V
- THE ORGANIZATION OF TELEVISION AND RADIO BROADCASTING
- Article 43. The beginning of broadcasting
- Article 44. Correspondents’ centres
- Article 45. Accreditation of creative workers of broadcasting organizations
- Article 46. Initial facts
- Article 47. The sanction for the right of the use of programs or transfers of other broadcasting organizations.
- Article 48. The registration of audiovisual products and the order of storage of their copies (records)
- Article 49. Distribution of communiqués (official notes) and other obligatory information
- Article 50. Activity of the broadcasting organizations during electoral
- process
- Article 51. Transmission in special circumstances
- Article 52. Discontinuance of transmission
- Article 53. Advertising
- Article 54. Participation of sponsors in creation of broadcasting programs
- Article 55. Announcements of transfers
- Title VI
- THE RIGHTS AND DUTIES OF THE ELERADIOORGANIZATIONS AND THEIR WORKERS
- Article 56. The rights of the broadcasting organizations
- Article 57. The editorial charter of the broadcasting organization
- Article 58. The rights of creative collective and broad casting journalists
- Article 59. Duties of the broadcasting organization
- Article 60. Duties of creative workers of the broadcasting organizations
- Title VII
- THE RIGHTS OF TELEVIEWERS AND RADIO LISTENERS
- Article 61. Protection of the rights of televiewers, radio listeners
- Article 62. Protection of public morals and guaranteeing of the rights of minors and youth
- Article 63. Non-admission of distortion of the information
- Article 64. The right to disclaimer
- Article 65. The right to the answer
- Article 66. Compensation of moral harm
- Article 67. Exempt from the responsibility for distribution information which does not correspond to the facts
- Title VIII
- THE INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION IN THE FIELD OF TV AND BROADCASTING
- Article 68. The international cooperation of the broadcasting organizations 1. Cooperation of the broadcasting organizations with foreign partners is carried out on the basis of direct contracts.
- Article 69. Activity of representatives of foreign broadcasting organizations on the territory of Ukraine
- Title IX
- THE RESPONSIBILITY FOR INFRINGEMENT OF THE LEGISLATION ON TV AND BROADCASTING
- Article 70. The control and supervision over observance of the legislation by the broadcasting organizations and program service providers
- Article 71. The responsibility for infringement of the legislation on TV and broadcasting
- Article 72. Sanctions for infringement of the legislation on TV and broadcasting
- Article 73. The National Council’s scrutiny of the questions on infringement by a broadcasting organization or a provider of program service of the legislation of Ukraine and conditions of the licence.
- Article 74. The National Council’s acceptance of the decision grounded on the results of scrutiny of the question on infringement of the legislation of Ukraine and conditions of the licence by a broadcasting organization or a provider of program services.
- Title X
- FINAL PROVISIONS
THE LAW OF UKRAINE
On Television and Radio Broadcasting
(The Official Journal of the Verkhovna Rada (OJVR), 1994, No 10, p. 43)
(Is put into operation by the Decree of the Verkhovna Rada
No 3760-XII (3760-12) of 21.12.93, OJVR, 1994, No 10, p. 44)
(Including the amendments in accordance with the Laws
No 75/95 - VR of 28.02.95, OJVR, 1995, No 13, p. 85
No198/95 - VR of 02.06.95, OJVR, 1996, No 5, p. 18
No 70/97 - VR of 14.02.97, OJVR, 1997, No 15, p.115
No 595/97 - VR of 22.10.97, OJVR, 1998, No 2, p. 6
No 196/98 - VR of 05.03.98, OJVR, 1998, No 34, p.233
No 193-XIV (193-14) of 20.10.98, OJVR, 1998, No 49, p.302
No 998-XIV (998-14) of 16.07.99, OJVR, 1999, No 41, p.373
No 1642-III (1642-14) of 06.04.2000, OJVR, 2000, No 27, p.213
No 1709-III (1709-14) of 11.05.2000, OJVR, 2000, No 32, p.257
No 2680-III (2680-14) of 13.09.2001, OJVR, 2002, No 2, p.5
No 2921-III (2921-14) of 10.01.2002, OJVR, 2002, No 16, p.114
No 744-IV (744-15) of 15.05.2003, OJVR, 2003, No 29, p.234
No 762-IV (762-15) of 15.05.2003, OJVR, 2003, No 30, p.247
No 871-IV (871-15) of 22.05.2003, OJVR, 2003, No 37, p.303
No 1294-IV (1294-15) of 20.11.2003, OJVR, 2004, No 13, p.181
No 1407-IV (1407-15) of 03.02.2004, OJVR, 2004, No 16, p.238
No 2810-IV (2810-15) of 06.09.2005, OJVR, 2005, No 49, p.518
No 3099-IV (3099-15) of 17.11.2005, OJVR, 2005, No 52, p.566
No 3253-IV (3253-15) of 21.12.2005, OJVR, 2006, No 5-6, p.75)
(In wording of the Law
No 3317-IV (3317-15) of 12.01.2006, OJVR, 2006, No 18, p.155)
This Law in accordance with the Constitution of Ukraine (254к/96-VR) and
the law of Ukraine “On Information” (2657-12) regulates relations, arising in the sphere of TV and broadcasting on the territory of Ukraine, determines legal, economical, social, organizational conditions of their functioning, aimed at the realization of freedom of speech, rights of citizens to be given complete, reliable and efficient information, rights to debate public questions openly and freely.
1. For the purpose of this Law the following definitions shall apply:
- audiovisual information means any type of signals perceived by visual and auditory receptors of a person and identified as the data about events, facts, phenomena, processes, personal information, and also comments (ideas) about these being transmitted by using pictures and sounds;
- audiovisual creative product means a part of a TV and radio program which is an object of the copyright, has a certain length, title and own concept, consists of episodes or integral authors' works combined together by a common creative project and with the help of audiovisual appliances, and is the result of joint authors’, performers’ and producers’ activities;
- audiovisual (electronic) mass communication media means an agency which gives for mass consumers’ reception the audiovisual information transmitted in the form of electric signals and accepted by means of household electronic devices;
- multi-channel television network (radio or cable) means a telecommunication network of common usage intended for transfers of broadcasting programs, and also for rendering other telecommunication and multimedia services. It is capable to provide simultaneous broadcasting of more than one broadcasting program and it can be integrated with other telecommunication networks of common usage;
- house distributive network means a telecommunication network, intended for a distribution of broadcasting programs to separate rooms (apartments) of the house and which is one of internal communications of the house and is not a part of multi-channel television networks;
- own product of the broadcasting organization means programs and broadcasts; their parts which are entirely or partially created and/whether are financed by the broadcasting organization;
- proprietor of the broadcasting organization means the physical or legal person, who has got the property right to the broadcasting organization or to a part of its authorized capital by establishing or by any other legal way;
- public broadcasting organizations mean those ones, which, according to the law, are non-profitable organizations, created with the purpose of satisfaction of information needs of territorial communities;
- state broadcasting organizations mean the broadcasting organizations which are the state enterprises and are founded by the bodies of the government;
- broadcasting hours means a time interval, during which, in accordance with the Licence for broadcast, a broadcasting organization, carries out the broadcasting of programs and broadcasts;
- TV channel means a certain strip of frequencies intended for the requirements of TV and mentioned in the Plan of the use of radio-frequency resource of Ukraine;
- broadcasting channel means a set of technical means of broadcasting (cable, optical, radio communication), intended for distribution of broadcasting programs to the territory, which is specified by the parameters of means which provide broadcasting of one program in real time;
- broadcasting channel of a multi-channel television network means a part of the resource of multi-channel television network which provides broadcasting of one program (one television flow) in real time;
- municipal broadcasting organizations means broadcasting organizations, which are created by bodies of local self-management with the help (assistance) of a territorial community in the order, that is established by the law. There is not less than a half of shares or parts of their authorized capital which are in the municipal property;
- competitive guarantee means a monetary payment, established by the National Council of Ukraine concerning TV and broadcasting, which confirms the intentions and obligations of the participant of competition on receiving licences;
- licence for broadcasting means the document of the state sample, which is given out by the National Council of Ukraine concerning TV and broadcastings and confirms the right of the licensee in accordance with licence standards as to carry out the broadcasting, to use broadcast channels, broadcast networks, the channels of multi-channel TV networks;
- licence of program service provider means a document of the state sample which is given out by the National Council of Ukraine concerning Title I
GENERAL PROVISIONS
Article 1. Definition of terms.