SECTOR 2 Scores: Individual scores: 1 Country does not meet indicator 2 Country meets only a few aspects of indicator 3 Country meets some aspects of indicator 4 Country meets most aspects of indicator 5 Country meets all aspects of the indicator Average score: 2.3 (2010: 1.9; 2007: 2.6) 2.5 Adequate competition legislation/regulation seeks to prevent media concentration and monopolies. If practice is anything to go by, Uganda’s policy is to encourage rather than deter monopolies. Both The Daily Monitor and New Vision groups own newspapers as well as radio and television stations. “The Communications Act talks about fair competition, but there is a very limited understanding of competition and crossmedia ownership.” The owners of media houses opposed attempts to restrict cross-media ownership in a draft amendment to the Press and Journalist Act that surfaced in 2010. “There is a debate on these issues, but the people leading the debate are the media who…have an interest. Civil society is not doing enough to flag these issues.” The draft Broadcasting Policy also addresses cross-media ownership, but this too has yet to be implemented. Section 4.10 of the draft policy seeks to “ensure effective regulation of media ownership in order to safeguard pluralism, diversity and the overall national interest”. Scores: Individual scores: 1 Country does not meet indicator 2 Country meets only a few aspects of indicator 3 Country meets some aspects of indicator 4 Country meets most aspects of indicator 5 Country meets all aspects of the indicator Average score: 2.3 (2010: 1.2; 2007 :1.3) AFRICAN MEDIA BAROMETER UGANDA 2012 35