The National Electronic Mass Media Council shall:
- maintain a register of the issued broadcasting permits and retransmission permits;
- collect, compile and analyse information regarding operation and development of the electronic mass media;
- compile and maintain a list of audio and audiovisual programmes to be retransmitted in Latvia;
- co-operate with institutions of other countries which work on matters regarding the operation and development of the electronic mass media, and with the European Commission;
- commission such sociological and other studies of problems concerning the operation and development of the sector as are necessary to facilitate the functions of the field;
- listen to, analyse and compile suggestions, complaints and other information submitted by viewers and listeners regarding the operation of the electronic mass media;
- make recordings of electronic mass media programmes or requests them from electronic mass media;
- request the documents from the electronic mass media which attest that they comply with the provisions of Sections 46, 47 and 48 of this Law;
- perform the monitoring of the electronic mass media and compile results thereof;
- according to the competence fulfil the functions of a supervisory body within the meaning of the Law on Information Society Services;
- ensure the efficient and useful use of the State budget resources that have been allocated in the interests of the public;
- promote the competitiveness of the electronic mass media under the jurisdiction of Latvia in the Latvian, European and world market;
- create equal operational conditions for all the electronic mass media under the jurisdiction of Latvia;
- promote media literacy;
- promote the policy of the electronic mass media appropriate to the national interests of Latvia;
- ensure the participation of the public, representatives of the vocational and educational institutions of the mass media in the drafting of the National Strategy for the Development of the Electronic Mass Media Sector;
- approve the list of television programmes to be distributed to end-users for free in digital terrestrial broadcasting. The criteria for the inclusion of electronic mass media programmes in the list of television programmes to be distributed to end-users for free in digital terrestrial broadcasting shall be determined in the national strategy for the development of the electronic mass media sector;
- organise distribution of programmes included in the list of television programmes to be distributed to end-users for free in digital terrestrial broadcasting with terrestrial transmitters;
- perform other activities prescribed by laws and regulations.