Master's thesis examines the consequences of the adopted European Media Freedom Act on media concentrations in Slovenia. The Slovenian legislature is put before a new test, to adopt a new Media Act by August 2025, taking into account the provisions of the aforementioned act, including the revised framework on media concentrations. The Slovenian legislature tried to update the media legislation several times in the last two decades, but no major changes have been made. Only after the adoption of the European Media Freedom Act, the legislature is forced to renew the media legislation to align it with European provisions. The master's thesis therefore examines the current Slovenian legislation and practice concerning media concentrations, the regulation of concentrations by the European Media Freedom Act, and how this regulation is reflected in the new Media Act-1 (ZMed-1) proposal. Since 26 other European Union states are in a similar situation and shall also harmonise their legislation, the second part of the thesis reviews the regulations on media concentrations in three other member states using a comparative law analysis. The aim of the thesis is also to determine how or whether Slovenia can follow the systems of other member states in its legislative reform. The results of the analysis show that no country has yet fully implemented the European Freedom Media Act, but Italy is very close and is thus significantly ahead of Slovenia. Despite some progress in recent years, Germany and Croatia are still far from harmonising with the new European provisions.
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