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Free Movement of Media Workers
In July 1996, the Conference expanded the categories of persons allowed free movement for work purposes to include Artistes, Sports Persons, Musicians and Media Workers.
In order to give legal effect to this mandate, Member States also had to or must still enact or amend legislation and put in place the necessary administrative and procedural framework.
Currently, the free movement of these categories is in place in all Member States, except Antigua and Barbuda, Barbados, Montserrat and St. Kitts and Nevis.
The following criteria will be applied to determine if a person is a Media Worker:
Criteria for Media Workers:
Media persons are persons whose primary source of income is drawn from media and media-related work. Such persons perform functions of:
- media managers and administrators
- editors and sub-editors
- reporters, producers, announcers and broadcasters
- camera operators, sound engineering and video technicians, production workers (in the print and electronic media, etc.), graphic artists, cartoonists and photographers
- administrators and editorial departments, programming departments and newsrooms
- other related personnel whose functions are not here classified
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