The draft law on the granting of the regional license Through the National Council of Broadcasting, the government spokesman presented to the current cabinet in today’s cabinet Paul Marinakis. It is noted that according to information the licenses will be three years. The aim of the government is to permanently licens the stations across the regions that according to the data displayed by the deputy minister is 86.

The licensing process will take place in two phases.

1st phase: The ESR by law will check whether candidates meet the “minimum qualitative requirements”. This “ensures that existing stations will continue to emit if they meet these conditions”.

2nd phase: Stage applies only to cases where there is a question of capacity in the frequency spectrum. The ESR, according to the draft law, will distribute candidates based on qualitative comparative evaluation criteria, such as the company’s turnover and a number of employees. In these cases, it is foreseen “additional scoring for the many years, continuous operation of the stations”.

Candidates should have tax and insurance information, transparency in ownership status, criminal record, minimum number of employees, as well as building facilities and equipment.

The financial consideration for the license will be “a symbolic annual cost of supervisory to the ESR, which will be calculated on the basis of the cost of supervisory project and population criteria” as Pavlos Marinakis said, “the provisions of Law 4339/2015, known as” Law “and the Model” and the Model “and the Model”.

Vassilis Koufopoulos