Article 1. Basic concepts used in the present Law.

The following concepts are used in the present Law:

1) Mass information is printed, audiovisual and other messages and materials intended for an unlimited group of people;

2) Mass medium is a periodical print edition, radio and TV program, cinema documentary, audio visual recording and other form of periodical and continuous public dissemination of mass information, including WEB-sites in public telecommunication networks (internet and other)*;

3) Periodical print edition is a newspaper, magazine, almanac, bulletin, appendixes to them that have a permanent name, current number and that are issued at least once in every six months;

4) TV, radio, video, newsreel program that is an aggregate of periodical audio visual messages and programs that has a permanent name and is aired at least once a year;

5) Broadcasting is transmission of TV, radio programs, audio visual recording with usage of analogous and digital electromagnetic systems;

6) Product of a mass medium is circulation or part of circulation of a separate issue of a print edition or audio visual program, a separate issue of a radio, TV or newsreel program, information, placed on WEB-site in oublic telecommunication networks;

7) Official statement is information provided by government bodies and intended for further dissemination via mass media;

8) Dissemination of mass medium product is sales (subscription, delivery, distribution) of periodical print editions, broadcasting of radio and TV programs, demonstration of newsreel programs;

9) Mass medium editorial office is a natural person or creative group, which is a structural subdivision of a legal person and that maintains collection and preparation of materials for a mass medium on the basis of labor agreement or other contract relations;

10) Editor-in-chief (editor) is a natural person who heads mass medium editorial office and possesses of respective rights for its issue, dissemination and broadcasting;

11) Journalist (mass medium representative) is a natural person maintaining activity on collection, processing and preparation of messages and materials for the mass medium on the basis of labor agreement or other contract relations;

12) Distributor is a natural or legal person who maintains dissemination of a mass medium product on the basis of agreement with its owner, publisher or on other legal basis;

13) Censorship is a preliminary concordance of messages and materials prepared by mass media with government bodies, officials and other organizations at their demand or on other basis with an intention to restrict or impose prohibition to disseminate messages and materials or their separate parts;

14) Adult material product is a print edition or TV, radio program that in general and systematically exploits interest towards sex.

15) WEB-site – is an electronic representative page of natural or legal entities of the Republic of Kazakhstan, prepared with assistance of special technical and program means, where an owner places information with a view of mass dissemination;

16) retransmission – is a receipt and simultaneous, or in recording, independent from use of technical means full and partial dissemination of television and radio programs (totality of television and radiocasts) of another mass medium;

  17) complex – is a totality of buildings, connected by common earmarking and constituting a unified structure;

  18) accreditation – is a procedure of appointment of a journalist and acknowledgement of his authorities by state body, public association and organization;

  19) authorized body on mass media affairs (further authorized body) – is a central executive body, which fulfils state regulation of activity of mass media and information agencies of the Republic of Kazakhstan”.