The advice given was especially concerned with the scope of duties that a territorial self-governing unit has as a publisher of periodicals to provide sufficient space for notices and responses to notices expressing the opinions of members of assembly of said unit. This was regarding such unit as per Section 4(a) of Act No. 46/2000 Coll., concerning the rights and duties when issuing periodicals and the amendment of certain other acts (press act), as amended (“Press Act”), as well as the scope of the duty of territorial self-governing units as publishers of periodicals to provide objective and balanced information about the territorial self-governing units, as per Section 4(a) of the Press Act.
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