Law on the Media No. 01/NA, dated 25 July 2008 11 of 13 http://www.laoservicesportal.gov.la/index.php?r=site/displaylegal&id=92 media’s administration organization is comprised of: Ministry of Information and Culture; Provincial, city’s Information and culture divisions; District, municipality’s information and culture offices. Article 54.Duties and Rights of the Ministry of Information and Culture In the administration of the media, the ministry of information and culture on behalf of the logistic arm of the government has the following duties and rights: 1. Study to draft law, policies, strategic plan, action plan, media’s development plan in order to propose to the government for consideration, decision then implement; 2. Propagate, disseminate laws and regulations through the media; 3. Organize, administrate and direct the activities of the media’s organization throughout the country; 4. Build, train, upgrade the level to media’s officials in politics, professional subjects and ethics; 5. Study, determine the technical standard and to use science, progressive and modern technology, in the area of the media; 6. Study, consider, approve and withdraw the organization and activities license of the media’s organization, authorization of the live broadcasting, the use of band frequency of electronic media which is under its responsibility; 7. Authorize and cancel the importation, exportation of all types of the media’s products according to its responsibility; 8. Administrate the media’s printed matters and the duplication of the media’s products within the scope of its responsibility; 9. Grant policies and impose other measures against the media’s organization and the personnel of the media which is under its responsibility; 10. Prevent, solve the proposals and activities operations of the media that contradict to laws and regulations in respect to its roles; 11. Coordinate with other concerned sectors and provincial, city administrative authorities in the administration of the activities of the media including Lao Media that has a connection with foreign countries and administrate the activities of foreign media in the Lao PDR; 12. Monitor and summarize the propagation results, news release of the media in each period, analyze news of foreign media concerning the Lao PDR to be data and to regularly report to the government; 13. Liaise and cooperate with the world on the media according to the assignment; 14. Exercise such other duties and perform such other rights on the administration of the media as provide in laws and regulations. Article 55.Duties and Rights of the Provincial, City’s Information and Culture Division In the administration of the media, the provincial, city’s information and culture division has the following duties and rights: 1. Study, propagate and implement policies, action plans, plans, laws and regulations, orders, instructions, notifications on the media; 2. Study and make decision on the directives, dissemination program concerning its media from time to time; 3. Administrate and direct the activities which are under its responsibility; 4. Planning to administrate, improve promptly and extend the media’s activities to promptly, sharply and efficiently service, the political duties and services to multi-ethic population within the province, city; 5. Administrate the activities of internal and foreign reporters to gather news within province, city; 6. Administrate the media’s printed matters and the importation, exportation of all types of media’s products according to its responsibility; 7. Study and propose to establish or dissolve the media’s organization that is subject to its responsibility to the Ministry of Information and culture for consideration according to the consent of the provincial, city’s administrative authority; 8. Instruct, mobilize, encourage the concerned organization, individual to collect news and provide news to the media; 9. Solve the proposals, implement policies and impose other measures to media’s organizations and personnel which are under its responsibility; 10. Regularly monitor, summarize and assess the media’s activities then report to the governor of the province, the mayor of the city and the Ministry of Information and Culture; 11. Liaise, cooperate on the media with foreign countries by the assignment of the concerned media’s organization; 12. Exercise such other duties and perform such other rights concerning the administration of the media as provided by laws and regulations. Article 56.Duties and Rights of the District, Municipal’s Information and Culture Office In the administration of the media, the district, municipal’s information and culture office has the following duties and rights: 1. Disseminate and implement laws and regulations, orders, instructions, notifications on the media within its District, Municipality; 2. Instruct, mobilize, encourage the grass-root organization within the district, municipality in order to collect the information, provide news to the media; 3. Administrate the media’s means that are operated within its district, municipality to be proper according to laws and regulations; 4. Administrate the activities of internal and foreign reporters that collect news within its district, municipality; 5. Administrate the importation, exportation of all types of the media’s products that are under its responsibility; 6. Monitor, summarize and assess the activities of the media then report to the chief of the district, head of the municipality and the provincial, city’s information and culture division; 7. Exercise such other duties and perform such other rights on the administration of the media as provided in laws and regulations; Article 57.Duties and Rights of the Sector and other parties Sectors, organizations and other concerned parties have duties and rights to coordinate with the information and culture sector in the administration, promotion and development of the media according to their roles; Article 58.Mass Media’s Inspection Organization The Mass Media’s Inspection organizations are comprised of: Internal inspection organization that is the same the media’s administration as provided for in Article 53 of this law; External inspection organization that are the owner of the mass media organization, ad hoc committee and other concerned parties. 25/09/2018, 14:25