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The Civil Court of Tirana accepted the request of Top Channel, Digitalb
and Media 6 against the Audiovisual Media Authority by suspending the
implementation of the administrative acts until the case is reviewed in
September.
The suspended acts are decisions taken on July 2nd for opening the tender of the national private licensing of digital audiovisual broadcast according to the procedure “beauty contest”, and other procedures that have started as result of this decision that was approved by AMA.
This decision of Judge Artur Gaxhi comes after Top Channel publicly contested several days earlier the digital network licensing process. But what does this verdict mean?
“This verdict means that AMA cannot take any other step for these procedures until our request for its repeal is reviewed. These were two long days, because AMA exploited to the point of abuse the space that the law gives them to postpone the verdict, which is unusual”, declared lawyer Sokol Nako.
This decision confirms the reports that Top Channel has made regarding the irregularities of this process. Top Channel has not received any answer yet for the questions made public about this process.
Why did AMA approve four decisions and regulations without a public consultation, as stated by article 48 of the law that entered in effect on April 4th? Why the strategic document was planned by the Ministry of Innovation, Technology, Information and Telecommunication, while it was a legal duty of AMA? Why no frequency plan was prepared, together with the basic documents for licensing the networks?
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