Skopje, 31 May 2019 – The Director of the Agency for Audio and Audiovisual Media Services, Zoran Trajcevski, had a working meeting with the Co-Rapporteurs of the Monitoring Committee of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe, Norwegian MP Lise Christoferssen of the Socialists, Democrats and Greens’ Party, the Moldovan MP Valeriu Ghiletchi of the European People’s Party Group, and the Secretary of the Monitoring Commission of the CoE Parliamentary Assembly Sylvie Affholder.
The participants in the meeting discussed the developments in the country following the last visit of the co-rapporteurs in June 2018, and, more precisely, the situation in the media sphere, the freedom and independence of the media. Special emphasis was placed on the media reforms, the amendments to the Law on Audio and Audiovisual Media Services and how they affect the autonomy and independence of the regulatory authority, the public broadcasting service and media in general.