License fee (Liechtenstein)

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The license fee has historically been regulated in several laws in Liechtenstein and has been collected in the past. The current license fee was created to finance Radio Liechtenstein on a legal basis, but only optionally. The media commission, which is part of the Office for Communication (AK) and reports to the government, is currently not collecting the fee and finances the station primarily from state funds as part of public funding as a public service based on the Swiss model.

history

In 1976 several municipalities and the State of Liechtenstein founded a cooperative to set up a cable network with a community antenna system. In the Post and Telecommunications Agreement of January 9, 1978, Switzerland undertook to broadcast Swiss radio programs in Liechtenstein via the Swiss Post, Telephone and Telegraph Companies (PTT) in return for a flat rate reimbursement . In the Radio and Television Act of November 15, 1978 , the license fee was regulated, which the government as the licensing authority established. Income rose from 1.7 million Swiss francs (CHF) in 1986 to 2.7 million CHF in 1997. Of this, CHF 0.25 million was paid to SRG and CHF 1.1 million to Swiss Post. Most recently, CHF 180 was collected per household. Due to the increasing number of private broadcasters and other satellite programs from abroad, the Liechtenstein government terminated the contract on the compensation for Swiss programming services to the SRG at the end of 1997 and the compensation for the supply services to the PTT at the end of March 1999.

As a result, the license fee was abolished in January 1999. Responsibility for the regulation and financing of broadcasting changed from the government to the media commission at the Office for Communication (AK).

present

Since 1999, the promotion of the democratic opinion-forming process has been provided as a public service based on the Swiss model and financed as a state task from tax revenues in accordance with a media promotion law. Since then, however, the reintroduction of the license fee has also been publicly discussed.

The public broadcasting service Liechtensteinische Rundfunk (LRF) was founded in 2004 in order to keep Radio Liechtenstein under public law after a private investor left. In the LRF law from 2003, Art. 37 also provides for a license fee in addition to other income, which according to Art. 39 by a government ordinance with the prior participation of the self-administration (Board of Directors according to Art. 23, 1h and Public Council according to Art. 31, 2b ) can be set. So far this has not been done. On this basis, license-financed television requires that the LRF itself organizes a program in accordance with Art. 6 LRFG or cooperates with other broadcasters in accordance with Art. 4. This is not possible for the Landeskanal . The public contribution to media financing in 2004 as a state contribution to the LRF was CHF 1.5 million and has remained constant to this day. The private media received a total of CHF 2.8 million from media subsidies, from service agreements and as reimbursement for official announcements, including CHF 1.4 million from Medienhaus Vaduz AG ( Liechtensteiner Vaterland ) and CHF 1.2 million from the Liechtensteiner Volksblatt .

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  1. ^ A b Natali Helberger : Developments in the Audiovisual Sector In: Legal Guide to the Audiovisual Media in Europe - Recent Legal Developments in Broadcasting, Film, Telecommunications and the Global Information Society in Europe and the Neighboring States. Straatsburg: European Audiovisual Observatory 1999, pp. 75–78 ( Liechtenstein Online chapter .) ( Memento of the original dated June 6, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.ivir.nl
  2. ↑ a b Report and application by the government to the Landtag of the Principality of Liechtenstein regarding information on the Liechtenstein Broadcasting Corporation. October 31, 2005.
  3. ↑ a b Will government reintroduce radio fees? welcome.li, September 5, 2003.
  4. ↑ Opinion on the Radio and Television Act. ( Memento of the original from January 2, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Liechtenstein National Administration, October 19, 1999. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.llv.li
  5. ↑ The Media Commission ( Memento of the original from January 2, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. at the Office for Communication, llv.li @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.llv.li
  6. ↑ Law of October 23, 2003 on the “Liechtenstein Broadcasting” (LRFG) With amending law of June 30, 2010. Liechtenstein State Law Gazette No. 244, August 30, 2010.
  7. ↑ The legal basis is Art. 22 (official reservation) and Art. 23 (official character) in: Ordinance of 19 October 1999 on the Information Act (Information Ordinance). Liechtenstein Law Gazette No. 206, issued on November 3, 1999.