1. State and municipal agencies as well as all types of other enterprises, agencies and organisations or natural persons may not monopolise the media. 2. The State shall create equal legal and economic conditions for fair competition among producers and disseminators of public information, except for producers and/or disseminators of productions of violent and erotic nature. In accordance with the procedure established by this Law and other laws, state and municipal institutions shall exercise control with a view to upholding pluralism in the provision of information to the public and fair competition, avoiding the abuse of a dominant position by producers and/or disseminators of public information or in any separate segment of the media market. A dominant position in the field of provision of information to the public shall be determined in conformity with this Law and the Law of Competition. 3. Restrictions laid down by this Law and other laws or legal acts shall apply to producers and/or disseminators of public information of violent and erotic nature. Article 30. Lithuanian National Radio and Television The Lithuanian National Radio and Television (hereinafter referred to as the “LRT”) shall be a nonprofit public establishment belonging to the State by the right of ownership and operating in accordance with this Law and the Law on the Lithuanian National Radio and Television. Article 31. Licensing of Radio and/or Television Programme Broadcasting and Rebroadcasting Activities 1. Radio and/or television programme broadcasting and re-broadcasting activities in the Republic of Lithuania shall be licensed, except for broadcasting of radio programmes by electronic communications networks the main purpose of which is not broadcasting and/or re-broadcasting of radio and/or television programmes as well as broadcasting carried out by natural persons for non-commercial purposes by such networks. Persons who wish to engage in radio and/or television programme broadcasting and/or rebroadcasting activities must obtain broadcasting and/or re-broadcasting licences. Broadcasting and rebroadcasting licences granting the right to set up and operate own electronic communications networks, the right to use own electronic communications networks for broadcasting and/or re-broadcasting of radio and/or television programmes or the right to use the transmission service provided by a third party shall be issued by the Commission. The Rules for Licensing of Broadcasting and Re-broadcasting Activities shall be approved by the institution authorised by the Government in the field of provision of information to the public on the recommendation of the Commission. 2. The Communications Regulatory Authority shall submit to the Commission information about the coordinated radio frequencies (channels) which, in accordance with the plan for the assignment of radio frequencies for broadcasting and transmission of radio and television programmes, are assigned to broadcasters and/or re-broadcasters of radio and/or television programmes in possession of licences issued by the Commission granting them the right to set up and operate own electronic communications networks together with information about the basic conditions of operating electronic communications networks

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