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DE] Interstate Broadcasting Agreement AmendedInterstate Broadcasting Agreement • June 10th, 2024
This updating of German media law was preceded by intensive debate, particularly on two questions. The first concerned tighter definition of the role of public-service broadcasting - as, for example, through limitation of the number of radio and television programmes that the broadcasters could produce. New programmes may now be broadcast only to replace previous output, with 1 April 2004 as the reference date for determining the number of programmes permissible. The second issue concerned the fact that licence fees had to be reviewed following expiry of the last licensing period. Any alteration in the level of fees is fixed by the independent Committee for Determining Broadcasters' Financing Requirements (KEF), on the basis of figures supplied by the public- service broadcasters. This time, however, there was a change of procedure. The KEF had already decided that the broadcasters' requirements were considerably less than they claimed. Thereupon and for the first time, the Minister Pr
