Media Study - Medija centar Beograd

Participation in the institutional management
Article 20
The National Council shall:
1) Give opinion on the nomination procedure for members of the management board, programme board and director general of the Radio
Television of Serbia, if this institution broadcasts programme in a national minority language;
2) Give opinion on the nomination procedure for members of the management board, programme board and director general of the Radio
Television of Vojvodina, if this institution broadcasts programme in a national minority language;
3) Set criteria for the election of editor-in-chief of the programme which is broadcast in a national minority language in the public service
institution;
4) Propose that the Broadcasting Agency management board appoint editor-in-chief of the programme broadcast in a national minority
language from among the candidates who have applied and fulfilled the competition criteria;
5) Give opinion on candidates for editor-in-chief of programmes broadcast in national minority languages in the Broadcasting Agency where
editor-in-chief is appointed for more than one programme broadcast in national minority languages.
Other competences in the field of mass media
Article 21
The National Council shall:
1) Adopt a strategy for the improvement of information broadcast in a national minority language in accordance with the strategy of the
Republic of Serbia ;
2) Give suggestions to the Republic Broadcasting Agency in designing the Broadcasting Development Strategy;
3) Give a suggestion regarding distribution of resources which are through open calls allocated from the budget of the Republic, autonomous
province or local self-government unit to legal or physical persons performing broadcasting activities in a national minority language;
4) Consider reports of Management and Programme Boards of Serbia’s and Vojvodina’s Broadcasting Agencies and give suggestions and
recommendations regarding programmes broadcast in a national minority language;
5) Give opinion and recommendations to the Republic Broadcasting Agency Council regarding communication of information in a national
minority language;
6) Appoint its representative in the Republic Broadcasting Agency Council who shall participate in its work without decision making power when
issues regarding information in a national minority language are being discussed;
7) Perform other activities in this field which are defined by law and other regulations.
5. Competences in the official use of language and script
Article 22
The National Council shall:
1) Determine traditional names of local self-government units, built-up areas and other geographical terms in the national minority language if
this language is in official use in the territory of the local self-government unit or built-up area. The names determined by the National Council
shall become officially used terms alongside with Serbian names and shall be published in the “Official Gazette of the Republic of Serbia” or in
the “Official Gazette of the AP Vojvodina” for National Councils located in the AP Vojvodina;
2) Give a recommendation to the competent body to write out names of local self-government units, built-up areas and other geographical
terms in the national minority language;
3) Propose the establishment of a national minority language and script as an official language and script in a local self-government unit;
4) Suggest the alteration of names of streets, squares, city blocks, hamlets and other parts of built-up areas, as well as names of institutions of
special importance for a national minority;
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