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DEADLINE FOR APPLICATION OF RADIO LICENSE IS BEING EXTENDED IN SEVEN (7) MUNICIPALITIES OF THE REPUBLIC OF KOSOVO

27 March 2019

The Independent Media Commission (IMC) pursuant to Articles 21, 22 and 23 of the Law on IMC  No. 04 / L-44, on 15February 2019 has announced a public vacancy for the issuance of licenses for radio broadcasting on seven locations in the Republic of Kosovo. The vacancy was open until 15th of March 2019. IMC has received applications within this deadline, but for some locations there were no applications submitted at all, whereas for some other locations there were no applications for certain categories of license or broadcast language, and in some locations there was only one candidate.

Based on the present situation and as well on the request of stakeholders, in the IMC meeting held on 21st of March 2019, IMC in order to establish a genuine competition in all locations in which free radio frequencies have been announced, has decided to extend the deadline for another 15 days. Applications submitted until now remain valid for this process.

The deadline for application will be open from 27th of March 2019 until 12th of April 2019, at 16:00hrs, while all criteria of the public vacancy for applying for a radio license remain unchanged.

Municipalities for which the vacancy of free frequencies for the licensing of radio stations will be made, according to the requests and needs of citizens of the Republic of Kosovo, are presented in the table below:

 

Municipality

License category and number of frequencies

Language transmission

1.

Peja

Regional – 1 frequency

Local – 1 frequency

Albanian

2.

Istog

Local– 2 frequencies

1.      Albanian; 1 Bosnian

3.

Prizren

Regional – 1 frequency

Albanian

4.

Prishtina

Regional – 1 frequency

Albanian

5.

Rahovec

Local – 2 frequencies

1.      Albanian; 1 Serbian

6.

Obiliq

Local – 1 frequency

Albanian

7.

Elez Han

Local – 1 frequency

Albanian

The category of radios with regional coverage belongs to an Audio Media Service Providers which cover radio signal through a frequency, from 30% to 60% of the territory of the Republic of Kosovo.

The category of locally covered radios belong to an Audio Media Service Providers which provide radio signal coverage, through a frequency up to 3 municipalities (up to 30% of the territory of the Republic of Kosovo).

APPLICATION PROCEDURES AND CRITERIA

Procedures for applying for IMC license, as well for setting qualifying and competitive criteria in order to participate in this public vacancy are mainly based in Article 22 of the Law and bylaws of the IMC.

Basic documents, as well the bylaws required for completing and submitting the IMC license application, are listed as in the following:

1.   Application Form;

2.  IMC Regulation-2017/02 on Audio and Audiovisual Media Service Providers;

3.   IMC Regulation-2017/06 on the Annual License Fee.

All attached documents, which will be an integral part of an application, shall be original, or they shall be notarised (when applicable);

Answers shall be as detailed as possible, and each answer shall be listed according to the questions based on the number / letter of each point presented in this application.

Applications shall be completed based entirely on the above presented bylaws.

Applications and all accompanying documents shall be admitted only in Albanian or Serbian language, in accordance to the Law on Official Languages ​​in the Republic of Kosovo.

Evaluation of applications received within the deadline given from the IMC shall be conducted based on the Regulation 2014/02 on the Evaluation of IMC License Applications.

It is preferable, that any question you may have on the application process, to submit in writing, addressing them to the Licensing Department of Executive Office of the Independent Media Commission for the attention of Nuredin Islami: nuredin.islami@kpm-ks.org.

Applications shall be submitted in 2 hard copies, to the following address:

Str. “Perandori Justinian”, no. 124, Qyteza Pejton, 10000, Prishtina

For more details,please see IMC webpage: www.kpm-ks.org

 

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