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LAW OF THE REPUBLIC OF ARMENIA

of January 14, 2004 No. ZR-14

About mass information

(as amended on 16-09-2022)

Accepted by People's Assembly of the Republic of Armenia on December 13, 2003

Article 1. Subject of regulation of this Law

This law governs the relations arising in the field of mass media and establishes guarantees of ensuring right to liberty of the word, accreditation of the journalist, realization of the right of confutation and the answer to spread information, and also those bases in the presence of which osushchestvitel of information activities will not be subject to responsibility.

Article 2. Legislation on mass information

The relations arising in the field of mass information are regulated by the Constitution of the Republic of Armenia, international agreements of the Republic of Armenia, the Civil Code of the Republic of Armenia, this law, other laws, and also other legal acts on which basis and in the established framework these relations are governed.

Article 3. Basic concepts

For the purposes of this law:

1) Mass information (further - information) - distribution of information available to any number of people which main objective - ensuring constitutional right of the person is free, irrespective of frontiers to look for, receive and distribute information and the ideas.

Information extends by means of mass media.

2) Mass media (further - media) means of distribution of information, on subscription or without that, on paid or free basis:

- on the material carrier - is issued periodically, has the permanent name, the future issue and date of issue, and number of copies of release, having identical content, there shall be at least 100;

- by means of TV and radio broadcasting;

- by means of public telecommunication network (network mass media) - as information amount available to any number of people, irrespective of regularity of its updating, storage duration and other parameters;

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