Circular 22/06

Community Advertising

The Authority has received complaints to the effect that community radio stations are not abiding by their licence conditions of obtaining adverts only from firms which are located within the boundaries of their respective community.

In order to sure that community radio stations are abiding by their licence conditions, the Authority is requesting all community radio stations to submit together with their schedule of programmes a list of those firms and individuals who would have placed adverts with the community radio station in the preceeding three months.

The above information should be submitted to the Authority on a quarterly basis. The first quarter should cover the period 1st July to 30th September 2006 and the relative information should reach the Authority by Monday, 16th October 2006.

Failure to abide by this directive will imply the imposition of an administrative penalty to the amount of two thousand Malta Liri (Lm2,000).

26th May 2006