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: Score of previous years: ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓✓ 2.5 2005=n/a; 2007=n/a; 2009=n/a; 2011=n/a; 2014=4.8 2.5 Adequate competition legislation/regulation seeks to prevent media concentration and monopolies There is adequate legislation that seeks to avoid the concentration and monopoly of the media in Mozambique, namely the Press Law (Article 6, nº 8), which states that ‘in order to guarantee the right of citizens to information, the State will observe an anti-monopoly policy, seeking to avoid the concentration of the media’. In addition, number 3 of the same article establishes: ‘Based on criteria of public interest, the State may acquire shares in information agencies that are not part of the public sector or determine other forms of subsidies to the sector.’ However, as observed by the panellists, the fundamental question in Mozambique is not necessarily the absence of laws, but their enforcement, the inspection of its compliance and when possible, sharing the information with the relevant entities. Although the law is clear on the prohibition of monopoly and concentration of the media, there is no guarantee that in practise it is being fulfilled – which is essential in any media landscape that does not want to be characterised by diversity without pluralism. 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: Score of previous years: 26 AFRICAN MEDIA BAROMETER MOZAMBIQUE 2018 ✓✓✓✓✓✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ 2.7 2005=1.0; 2007=2.5; 2009=1.4; 2011=1.1; 2014=4.7