Parliamentary Commission for the Surveillance of radio-TV services............

TEMPORARY DECREE FOR ACCESS TO RADIO-TV USING...... "TELETEXT"..........

(Text presented by the speaker and approved without changes by the Committee)

The parliamentary commission for general direction and surveillance of radio-TV services
read articles 4 and 6 of law 103 from 14 April 1975, regarding Access to radio-TV
read article 4 of the service Contract stipulated between the Ministry for Communication and the Italian Rai Radio-TV, approved with a decree from the President of the Republic on 29 October 1997, which foresees, in the framework of Commission guidelines, a specific regulation of the public concession for Access programmes in the Teletext services, with particular attention being paid to the experiences of associations and voluntary organisations;
bearing in mind that the permanent subcommittee for Access, at the meeting on the 2 March 1999, agreed to ask for a temporary disposition from the Commission which allows for the rapid start up of the programmes;
considered urgent to provide this and the opportunity to partially use a regulation outline made available by the Rai;
read art. 1 of the subcommittee's decree from the 10 December 1997, which arranges an experimental classification of the Access applications;
having consulted the Rai

directs

Art. 1

1. The Access programmes are extended, within the television programming, to the Newscast Teletext, indicated below as "Teletext".
2. Teletext establishes a special programme dedicated to Bodies, Institutes or Associations which present interesting profiles for the association and voluntary group sectors. These are identified by the permanent subcommittee for Access with the methods foreseen under art. 2.

Art. 2

1. The permanent subcommittee for Access examines the applications presented with specific reference to Teletext using the procedures foreseen by the regulation for Access, and they arrange the programming with this specific means.
2. At the first application of this decree, the people who access the programmes mentioned in art. 1 are identified by the subcommittee as those who have already presented ordinary applications for radio-TV or radio access, classified under category f) of the division mentioned in art. 1, comma 1 of the subcommittee's decree from the 10 December 1997, or while being classified in other categories, have relevant profiles of interest to the association and voluntary organisation sectors.
3. The people mentioned in comma 2 are invited to take part in the programme on Teletext in reference to the applications already presented.

Art. 3

1. A special direction page is dedicated to the regular feature mentioned in art. 2, made up of a minimum of 6 and a maximum of 12 rolling sub-pages, which will appear on the general index of the Teletext indexes and the subject index.

Art. 4

1. The regular feature mentioned in art. 2 will be transmitted on at least one RAI national network.

Art. 5

1. Each person indicated by the subcommittee will have three rolling pages dedicated to them, made up of 16 typed lines of 39 characters each, including spaces.

Art. 6

1. The subcommittee in exceptional cases may identify a limited number of people who, due to their importance and fame, are worth mentioning in the space for 6 rolling pages each.

Art. 7

1. The material on each person will stay broadcast for seven consecutive days of the year, 24 hours a day.
2. The programming during election times conforms to the provisions of law and the subcommittee's indications.

Art. 8

1. If, during the course of the year, the subcommittee does not give indications on people admitted with a sufficient number to provide the regular feature with material as foreseen under art. 3, Teletext will repeat the material which was broadcast during the year, in the same order as the first showing.

Art. 9

1. The people admitted should send the packaged material described in the previous art. 5 to Teletext by fax or letter or e-mail, at the address indicated below: RAI Radiotelevisione Italiana - Testata Televideo - Servizi Nazionali - Largo Willy De Luca n. 5, Palazzina "F", stanza n. 42 - 00188 Roma, fax: 0633170806, e-mail: televideo@rai.it.

Art. 10

1. The people admitted can also send material which is not in teletext format; in this case it will be the Teletext Offices which synthesise this material into a broadcastable format.

Art. 11

1. Any material exceeding the allotted spaces will not be broadcast. The identification of excess pieces and words is up to the RAI, whose role it will be to maintain the overall sense of the original message where possible.

Art. 12

1. The material admitted to Access programmes will be broadcast in the chronological order communicated by the subcommittee.

Art. 13

1. Each person is responsible for the contents of their own feature and promises to free the RAI of any claims being made by third parties. Art. 6 of law 103 from 14 April 1975 is applied and the parliamentary regulation to examine Access applications.

Art. 14

1. Teletext reserves the right not to broadcast material which constitutes a crime or clear violation of the laws governing public order and good behaviour, and to bring the case to the attention of the subcommittee immediately.

Art. 15

1. The feature mentioned in art. 2 will be completed by a calendar containing the broadcasting date of Bodies, Institutes or Associations admitted to the Access programmes in the following two weeks.
2. As mentioned in comma 1, the subcommittee will communicate the names of the people admitted to Teletext with as much prior warning as possible.

Art. 16

1. All possible claims by Bodies, Institutes or Associations on the handling of the feature will be directed to the subcommittee, who will make their decision based upon what is mentioned in article 6 of law 103 from 14 April 1975 and the parliamentary regulation for the Access applications.