which State has jurisdiction according to the procedure established by Article 2(5c) of Directive
2010/13/EU, as amended by Directive (EU) 2018/1808.
Article 6. (Supplemented, SG No. 79/2000, SG No. 93/2005, amended, SG No. 12/2010) (1)
Media service providers shall be public-service and commercial.
(2) Public-service media service providers shall:
1. provide for distribution political, business, cultural, scientific, educational and other socially relevant
information;
2. ensure access to national and global cultural values and popularise the advances of science and
technology by the distribution of Bulgarian and foreign educational and cultural programme services
and programmes addressed to all age groups;
3. ensure, through the programming policy thereof, the protection of national interests, universal human
cultural values, national science, education and culture of all Bulgarian citizens, regardless of their
ethnic identity;
4. encourage the creation of works by Bulgarian authors;
5. encourage Bulgarian performing arts.
(3) The Bulgarian National Radio (BNR) and the Bulgarian National Television (BNT) shall be national
public-service providers of radio services and, respectively, of audiovisual media services, which:
1. ensure media services for all citizens of the Republic of Bulgaria;
2. assist the development and popularisation of Bulgarian culture and the Bulgarian language, as well as
of the culture and language of citizens in accordance with the ethnic identity thereof;
3. ensure, through the media services thereof, access to the national and European cultural heritage;
4. include programmes which inform, educate and entertain;
5. apply the new information technologies;
6. reflect the diversity of ideas and convictions in society by means of pluralism of viewpoints in each
one of the news and current affairs programmes on political and business subjects;
7. foster mutual understanding and tolerance in relations among people;
8. afford citizens an opportunity to familiarise themselves with the official position of the State on
important issues of public life.
(4) Any media service providers, which are not licensed/registered as public-service providers, shall be
commercial providers.
Article 7. (Amended, SG No. 96/2001, SG No. 12/2010, SG No. 109/2020, effective 22.12.2020)
(1) Media service providers shall make easily, directly and permanently accessible to the recipients of
the service at least the following data on the Internet site thereof:
1. name of the media service provider;
2. head office and registered office;
3. the details, including an email address and contact telephone number, which allow for the provider to
be contacted rapidly in a direct and effective manner;
4. details of the Council for Electronic Media, head office and registered office, email address and
Internet site, a contact telephone number.
(2) The Council for Electronic Media shall also include in the registers thereof a link to the information
concerning the ownership structure and the beneficial owners of the providers concerned, which is
disclosed to the Commercial Register and the Register of Non-profit Legal Persons according to the
procedure established by the Measures Against Money Laundering Act.
Article 8. (Amended, SG No. 96/2001, supplemented, SG No. 77/2002, amended, SG No.
12/2010, SG No. 109/2020, effective 22.12.2020) (1) Media services must not contain any:
1. incitement to violence or hatred directed against a group of persons or a member of a group based on
any of the grounds referred to in Article 21 of the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European
Union;
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