A press card does not look only at the person's conditions; the publication they are attached to has conditions of its own. For newspapers and magazines these are gathered in Art. 15 of the Press Card Regulation and run to nine items.
The Nine Conditions
| Subpara. | Condition |
|---|---|
| (a) | Submitting to the Directorate an approved copy of the declaration filed under Law No. 5187 and of the receipt issued by the public prosecutor's office |
| (b) | The type of publication chosen in the declaration conforming to the definition in Art. 4 of the Regulation |
| (c) | The total area of advertisements, announcements, pictures of the same nature, ready-made blocks and side margins not exceeding one third of the surface area; each page being reset and laid out afresh before printing |
| (ç) | Apart from material under contract or for which royalty or subscription fees have been paid, no more than one third of the page layout, headlines, text and visual content being verbatim quotation from another publication - even where it belongs to the same person |
| (d) | Where a quotation is made against a subscription or royalty fee, showing which publication it was taken from |
| (e) | Being published regularly at the intervals stated in the declaration |
| (f) | Not being reproduced by methods other than printing |
| (g) | One copy of each issue being sent to the relevant regional directorate within five days of publication at the latest, and uploaded to the system |
| (ğ) | Being offered for sale at market price in places anyone can see or enter |
| (h) | Performing the notification duty in Art. 36 on a change of workplace and/or title |
Two Separate "One Third" Limits
The qualification in subparagraph (ç) - "even where it belongs to the same person" - matters: copying verbatim from your own other publication also counts as quotation.
The Five-Day Copy Delivery
Subparagraph (g) is a time-bound duty: one copy of each issue is sent, within five days of publication, to the regional directorate for the place of publication, and uploaded to the system.
No Declaration, No Card
Subparagraph (a) is the first link in the chain: the employees of a publication that has not filed a declaration, or has not kept the receipt, cannot obtain press cards.
The Publication Type Must Match the Definition
Subparagraph (b) requires the type of publication chosen in the declaration to conform to the Regulation's definitions. The type also determines which quota table you fall under: there are separate tables for daily political newspapers, weekly political newspapers and magazines, non-political newspapers and magazines, and publications appearing fortnightly or less often.
If the Conditions Are Lost Later
Art. 38/1-b provides that where it emerges that the outlet does not have, or has subsequently lost, these conditions, the press card is cancelled. We cover this in what happens when the outlet loses its conditions.
Summary
- Newspapers and magazines must have a declaration and receipt, a publication type matching the definition, advertising and quotation ratios under one third, regular publication, printing, copy delivery within five days, sale at market price and compliance with the notification duty.
- The two one-third limits are calculated separately.
- Losing these conditions leads to cancellation of employees' cards.