Morocco to accelerate audiovisual sector reform

Moroccan communication minister and the government's spokesman, Nabil Benabdellah, said Morocco is set to accelerate the reform of the audiovisual sector in the upcoming days. Benabdellah told Moroccan daily "Al Alam" in an interview published this Monday efforts are intensified so that the council of government adopts shortly a new law regulating the communication sector in Morocco.

The minister said he hoped the bill will be submitted to the parliament on November 15, on the national information and communication Day, and adopted before the end of the year to allow the implementation of the reform plan at the beginning of year 2004. The minister deemed king Mohammed VI's appointment of new officials in the communication and information sectors a translation of a strong resolve for change and a consecration of the reforms drive that will speed up during the coming months.

The process of reforms will be launched by technical, human, financial and management restructuring of the national TV channel "RTM," Benabdellah noted, underlining that a French company was chosen to contribute to this restructuring. The communication minister believes, nonetheless, that the success of the restructuring process depends on the improvement of the situation of human resource operating in the sector.