Parliament to have more say on SRG concession
On Monday, the Committee on Transport and Telecommunications (KVF) discussed whether Parliament should be responsible for the SRG license in the future.
It has not yet decided anything. However, it is examining whether it would be possible to split the concession. This would mean that Parliament would issue a general concession and the Federal Council would be responsible for the operating concession. The KVF instructs the administration to show by the summer how such a division could be implemented legislatively to enable parliament to have a say. National Councillor Thomas Müller (SVP/SG) is demanding in a parliamentary initiative that parliament be responsible for the SRG concession. He argues that a parliamentary decision is an indispensable basis for the democratic legitimacy of the basic service mandate to the SRG. The initiative raises a legitimate question about the public service debate, the KVF wrote in a statement on Monday. However, it wants to postpone the preliminary examination until the Federal Council's report on the public service is available. The report has been announced for June. (SDA)
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