Work on the bill on media, which has been in the Verkhovna Rada for almost 3 years [!], is entering the home stretch. Servants of the People report that they are ready to adopt a bill by the end of summer that will regulate the work of all media, including online media.

For the sharp expansion of the powers of the National Council on Television and Radio Broadcasting (which received the right to punish and pardon all media), this bill was sharply criticized by both Ukrainian journalists and international organizations.

But now, after revision, the document has become even tougher.

Earlier, Strana spoke in detail about how the authorities want to regulate the work of journalists....

"Worthy of the worst authoritarian regimes." What is written in the bill on media, which they want to adopt in Ukraine [4 Aug]
... since the European Parliament by a majority vote approved Ukraine's application for the status of a candidate for accession to the European Union, the lobbyists of this project have an additional argument, they say, media reform is one of the main requirements of the EU.

At the same time, Europe has already called the Ukrainian media bill "worthy of the worst authoritarian regimes". Thus, the European Federation of Journalists criticized the forced regulation of the media - it is that, according to the draft law, the National Council of Ukraine on Television and Radio Broadcasting will receive "disproportionate regulatory powers"[] and will have "power not only over the audiovisual media, but also over print and online publications. ....

The Committee to Protect Journalists (an international non-governmental organization headquartered in New York) has condemned  the law "On Media" recently adopted in the first reading by the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine. This was stated [28 Jul] by CPJ Program Director Carlos Martinez de la Serna, according to the official website of the organization.

"A review of Ukraine's outdated media legislation is necessary if the country is to meet European Union standards, but lawmakers should not use such reforms as an excuse to expand state control over information. Lawmakers should develop bill in line with EU directives < wipes tears > that includes strong guarantees of freedom press [sic]," he said. ...

(5) 'press publication' means a publication as defined in Article 2(4) of Directive
2019/790/EU [Title I, Art. 2 Definitions, p 22];

(6) 'audiovisual media service' means a service as defined in Article 1(1), point (a), of
Directive 2010/13/EU [Ch.1, Art. 1 Definitions, p 11];
[...]
(11) 'video-sharing platform service' means a service as defined in Article 1(1), point (aa),
of Directive 2010/13/EU;
(12) `national regulatory authority or body' means the authority or body designated by
Member States pursuant to Article 30 of Directive 2010/13/EU;