[With the amendments to the Law on Broadcasting], the only thing that is changing now is that it is being transferred from self-regulation to state regulation. That is, the norm is not changing. The norms will be transferred to real life and the state will control their implementation, because self-regulation is not able to do this, - the leader of the parliamentary majority, Mamuka Mdinaradze, told journalists.

According to him, the failure to implement self-regulation has created stillborn norms.

“Not a single point is changing, all this was included in self-regulation, which was not implemented. The failure to implement self-regulation has created stillborn norms because self-regulation was not able to do all this. For example, television stations were absolutely inert in the area of ​​self-regulation. As it turned out and we studied this well, the main norms were transferred from the British model, modified, and adjusted to the reality of Georgia, which you, all journalists, have recognized. It was simply in the field of self-regulation. Now the only thing that is changing is that it is being transferred from self-regulation to state regulation. That is, the norm is not changing. What all journalists in Georgia have recognized, those norms will be transferred to real life and the state will establish control over their implementation, because self-regulation cannot do this,” said Mamuka Mdinaradze.

For information, on February 24, Georgian Dream initiated two draft laws amending the Georgian Law on Broadcasting. According to the amendments, a broadcaster will be prohibited from receiving direct or indirect funding from a foreign power - money or other material benefits of property value. In addition, it is prohibited for a foreign power to purchase the services of a broadcaster, as well as direct or indirect funding or co-financing of program preparation and transmission.