Ministers council chaired by king passes law project on audio-visual reform
Morocco, Politics, 6/5/2004

The Minister's Council chaired Thursday, by King Mohammed VI of Morocco, approved a law project on audio-visual communication that is part of the reforms process initiated by the monarch.

The reform of this sector aims at "enlarging public freedoms, deepening democracy and modernity values and promoting the sector of information as a vector of development," spokesman for the Palace Hassan Aourid said.

The law project is also part of a series of measures adopted to "end the state monopoly over the information sector, create a higher communication council, enrich the relevant legislation and draft general principles of openness and conditions needed to have access to the audio-visual sector in keeping with specifications and professional ethics."

The project which had gone through long debates by the concerned parties, also provides for turning the Moroccan Radio and Television into a company named "the national company of Radio-Television" and defined a particular legal status for the second TV channel "2M" that will be maintained as a public service, "as part of an approach that remains open to present and future challenges."

The Council also adopted a series of law projects, including one meant to organize in a more modern way the profession of Aduls (Islamic notaries), and another one the distribution of land plots that had been allocated as part of the agrarian reform program for their development and exploitation as well as the easing of procedures for the creation of cooperatives.

The Ministers Council finally adopted a series of international conventions and agreements, including a convention creating the Arab Women Organization, the "International Convention for the suppression of terrorist bombings" and the "international convention against the taking of hostages."

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