Under the Media Act, radio and television programmes may obtain the status of a local, regional, student, or non-profit programme of special importance by submitting an application to the Agency, provided that they meet all the statutory conditions required for obtaining such status. The area is covered by the Media Act and the Rules on Programmes of special importance.
Information on the holders of local, regional, student and non-profit special interest programme status is contained in the Registery of radio and television stations.
An application for the status of a radio or television programme of special interest must include:
- an indication of the programme and the status which the applicant wishes to obtain for his programme,
- the name of the applicant and its address or registered office; and
- the name of the applicant's legal representative or his/her authorised representative.
An application for local or regional radio or television broadcasting status must also include:
- evidence that the broadcaster has, in accordance with its constitutive act, a programme committee representing the interests of the local or regional area in the fields of culture, education, business and sport and of the broadcaster,
- evidence that the broadcaster provides content on the life and work of Slovenians living abroad, members of the autochthonous Italian or Hungarian ethnic community in the Republic of Slovenia and the Roma community living in the Republic of Slovenia, if these communities live in the area covered by the programme,
- evidence that the broadcaster has an employment contract of indefinite duration or other long-term cooperation with at least two journalists or programme staff, unless the programme is intended to inform members of minority ethnic and national communities.
An application for student radio or television programme status must also include:
- evidence that the programme content is predominantly produced and disseminated by students (e.g. a list of programme staff showing that the majority of the staff producing and disseminating the student programme content are students),
- evidence that the programme content is predominantly aimed at a student audience,
- evidence that the broadcaster uses the surplus of income over expenditure only for the purpose of carrying out the activity for which it is established, in accordance with the law governing the functioning and activities of the self-governing student community of Slovenia and its founding act,
- the founding act of the publisher.
An application for non-profit radio or television broadcasting status must also include:
- evidence that the broadcaster is not established for the purpose of carrying on a profit-making activity or making a profit, or of developing, facilitating or promoting the profit-making activities of its founders, partners or members,
- evidence that, in accordance with its articles of incorporation, it uses profits or surplus income over expenditure exclusively for the pursuit of the purposes or objectives of the non-profit programme and does not divide the assets among its founders, partners, members or other persons,
- evidence that the salaries and allowances paid to members of the publisher's management and supervisory bodies and other allowances (travel expenses, subsistence allowances, etc.) do not exceed the rates laid down for public bodies by the applicable regulations and the collective agreement of cultural workers,
- evidence that it has an employment contract of indefinite duration or other long-term cooperation with at least two journalists or programme staff, unless the programme is intended to inform members of minority ethnic and national communities.