Premier: audio-visual media reform to limit government role
Morocco, Politics, 1/5/2002

Moroccan prime minister, Abderrahmane Youssoufi, said the draft reform of the audio-visual media will limit the government's role to regulating, organizing and defining the strategies of the sector.

The prime minister explained in a letter to government members that reforming the audio-visual sector is part of the government's commitments in the field and stems from the government's faith that these reforms will considerably contribute to enlarge the scope of public freedoms and promote the values that make the foundations of democratic and free societies.

According to culture and communication minister, Mohamed Achaari, who was briefing on Thursday reporters at the end of the weekly cabinet meeting, Youssoufi also said the project defines in a precise manner conditions and forms of audio-visual communication freedom, consecrates the lifting of the monopoly over the sector and grants large attributions to the (projected) high council of audio-visual communication in matters related to licenses, control and sanctions.

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