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Licence fee: news website versus media outlet

Licence application fee under Article 11 of the executive regulations of the Press and Media Regulation Law

"Article 11 of the regulations sets the application fee at fifty thousand pounds ... for a website and two hundred and fifty thousand ... for a media outlet."
50,000
EGP · News website
≈$1,040
250,000
EGP · Media outlet
≈$5,180
Website
Media outlet
5×The media outlet fee is five times the website fee, and is renewed at the same fee every five years.

US dollar figures at EGP 48.30 to the dollar.

Sources: Egyptian Human Rights Forum, 'Programming Silence' report; Article 11 of the executive regulations of the Press and Media Regulation Law (Prime Minister's Decree No. 418 of 2020)