XaraTV

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SOVEREIGN CATHOLIC INDIGENOUS AND PRIVATE STATE OF XARAGUA
OFFICE OF THE RECTOR-PRESIDENT
SUPREME CONSTITUTIONAL AUTHORITY
MINISTRY OF COMMUNICATION
UNIVERSITY OF XARAGUA
GENERAL ARCHIVES OF THE STATE
SUPREME ORGANIC STATUTE
ON THE CONSTITUTION, AUTHORITY, ADMINISTRATION, PRODUCTION, AUTHENTICATION, BROADCASTING, DISTRIBUTION, DOCUMENTARY CLASSIFICATION, ARCHIVAL CUSTODY, AUDIOVISUAL HERITAGE, AND PERMANENT INSTITUTIONAL CONTINUITY OF XARATV
Official Institutional Designation: XaraTV — Xaragua Television
Official Function: State Audiovisual Broadcasting, Institutional Television, Documentary Production, and Audiovisual Archives Service
Official Classification: Organic State Communications Instrument — National Audiovisual Broadcasting Statute — Institutional Television Act — State Documentary Authority — National Audiovisual Archives Act — Academic and Cultural Communications Instrument
Date of Original Establishment: 22 May 2025
Date of Consolidated Promulgation: 26 August 2026
Supreme Constitutional Authority: Office of the Rector-President
Responsible Ministerial Authority: Ministry of Communication
Academic Authority: University of Xaragua
Permanent Archival Authority: General Archives of the State
Institutional Duration: Permanent
Status: In Force
PREAMBLE
BY THE SUPREME CONSTITUTIONAL AUTHORITY OF THE SOVEREIGN CATHOLIC INDIGENOUS AND PRIVATE STATE OF XARAGUA:
Whereas the constitutional order of Xaragua possesses the institutional competence to establish, regulate, administer, maintain, and develop its organs of governmental communication, audiovisual publication, public information, documentary production, academic transmission, and cultural preservation;
Whereas audiovisual communication constitutes a permanent instrument of institutional government through which constitutional authorities, ministries, academic institutions, autonomous communities, and other competent organs may communicate, document proceedings, preserve evidence, transmit knowledge, and maintain authenticated public records;
Whereas the institutional audiovisual record constitutes an integral component of the constitutional, governmental, academic, territorial, cultural, and historical record of Xaragua;
Whereas the legal and documentary integrity of that record requires permanent rules governing authorization, production, provenance, classification, authentication, publication, preservation, correction, version control, access, restriction, licensing, and technological succession;
Whereas the juridical status of an audiovisual institution shall not depend upon possession of any particular terrestrial frequency, transmission tower, studio complex, cable network, satellite system, website, server, hosting provider, social network, streaming service, or proprietary technological architecture;
Whereas the University of Xaragua possesses academic competence concerning audiovisual instruction, lectures, documentaries, research dissemination, historical documentation, and preservation of educational resources produced or administered under its authority;
Whereas the General Archives of the State possesses permanent documentary competence over audiovisual records designated as forming part of the constitutional, governmental, academic, territorial, cultural, or historical record;
Whereas Indigenous peoples possess recognized rights concerning the preservation, development, administration, and transmission of their languages, oral traditions, histories, cultural expressions, knowledge, institutions, territories, and collective memory through communications media under their control;
NOW, THEREFORE, XARATV IS HEREBY CONFIRMED AND ORGANIZED AS THE PERMANENT INSTITUTIONAL AUDIOVISUAL BROADCASTING, TELEVISION, DOCUMENTARY, AND ARCHIVAL SERVICE OF XARAGUA, AND ITS ORGANIC REGIME IS ESTABLISHED AS FOLLOWS:
TITLE I — CONSTITUTION AND INSTITUTIONAL STATUS
Article 1 — Permanent Establishment
XaraTV — Xaragua Television is hereby confirmed and permanently constituted as the official State audiovisual broadcasting, institutional television, documentary production, and audiovisual publication service of Xaragua.
It forms an integral component of the permanent communications architecture of the State and shall exercise the functions conferred by this Statute and subsequent competent instruments.
Article 2 — Institutional Character
XaraTV constitutes a State communications institution exercising governmental, documentary, academic, educational, historical, territorial, cultural, and public-information functions according to the origin and classification of each production.
XaraTV shall not constitute an independent political authority, a separate juridical order, or an autonomous government distinct from Xaragua.
Its institutional authority derives exclusively from the constitutional order and from the competence lawfully assigned to the authorities responsible for its administration.
Article 3 — Technological Neutrality
The juridical and institutional existence of XaraTV shall remain independent of the technology employed for production, transmission, storage, distribution, or reception.
XaraTV may operate through:
a. State-controlled digital infrastructure;
b. institutional websites;
c. streaming services;
d. audiovisual repositories;
e. mobile applications;
f. social-communications platforms;
g. educational portals;
h. terrestrial television;
i. cable distribution;
j. satellite transmission;
k. community broadcasting;
l. direct digital transmission;
m. distributed preservation systems; and
n. successor audiovisual technologies.
No transmission mechanism or technical platform shall constitute the source of XaraTV’s institutional authority.
Article 4 — Official Identity
The designation XaraTV, the expanded designation Xaragua Television, and every officially adopted channel name, program title, seal, visual signature, identifier, and associated institutional element form part of the institutional identity administered by Xaragua.
No unauthorized person or entity operating within the jurisdiction or institutional systems of Xaragua may falsely represent itself as XaraTV or as an authorized audiovisual organ of the State.
Reproduction of an institutional designation shall not confer official status, governmental competence, accreditation, endorsement, or authority of representation.
TITLE II — CONSTITUTIONAL AUTHORITY AND ADMINISTRATIVE COMMAND
Article 5 — Supreme Constitutional Authority
The Office of the Rector-President exercises supreme constitutional authority over XaraTV.
Within its competence, the Office may:
a. authorize supreme constitutional broadcasts;
b. issue superior communications directives;
c. designate extraordinary State productions;
d. determine questions of superior institutional competence;
e. order the preservation, restriction, release, or declassification of recordings possessing constitutional significance;
f. establish superior State broadcasting policy; and
g. issue constitutional implementing instruments governing XaraTV.
Article 6 — Ministry of Communication
The Ministry of Communication constitutes the responsible ministerial authority for XaraTV.
The Ministry shall determine and administer State policy concerning:
a. audiovisual broadcasting;
b. institutional television;
c. documentary production;
d. official distribution channels;
e. production standards;
f. authentication;
g. documentary classification;
h. communications security;
i. distribution;
j. licensing;
k. co-production;
l. archival coordination; and
m. technological continuity.
Article 7 — Audiovisual Directorate
Operational administration of XaraTV shall be entrusted to the competent Audiovisual Directorate designated under the Ministry of Communication.
The Directorate shall maintain:
a. programming schedules;
b. production registers;
c. authorization records;
d. publication registers;
e. institutional identifiers;
f. documentary classifications;
g. source and master recordings;
h. rights and licensing records;
i. correction, restriction, and withdrawal records;
j. distribution records;
k. official-channel directories; and
l. archival-transfer records.
The Directorate shall exercise no authority exceeding that assigned by this Statute, the Ministry, or another superior competent instrument.
Article 8 — University of Xaragua
The University of Xaragua shall exercise academic authority over audiovisual programming formally produced, commissioned, or issued under University competence.
The University may produce, classify, preserve, and distribute:
a. lectures;
b. seminars;
c. courses;
d. academic interviews;
e. educational documentaries;
f. research presentations;
g. historical productions;
h. territorial studies;
i. scholarly discussions;
j. instructional series; and
k. audiovisual academic archives.
Academic programming shall retain its academic character unless separately adopted by competent governmental authority through the procedure governing the governmental act concerned.
Article 9 — General Archives of the State
The General Archives of the State shall exercise permanent archival authority over audiovisual records transferred to it or designated for permanent preservation.
Transfer of physical or digital custody shall preserve the identity, classification, original date, documentary provenance, and originating competence of the institution responsible for the record.
Archival custody shall not convert the General Archives into the original author or issuing authority of the deposited production.
TITLE III — NATIONAL AUDIOVISUAL MANDATE
Article 10 — General Mandate
XaraTV shall constitute a permanent institutional audiovisual interface among:
a. the Office of the Rector-President;
b. ministries and constitutional institutions;
c. the University of Xaragua;
d. autonomous communities;
e. the Xaraguayan population;
f. associated institutions;
g. academic partners; and
h. authorized external audiences.
Its mandate includes:
i. broadcasting State addresses;
j. transmitting governmental public information;
k. operating institutional television programming;
l. documenting State proceedings and official ceremonies;
m. delivering academic instruction;
n. producing documentaries;
o. preserving historical and territorial records;
p. transmitting cultural and linguistic programming;
q. producing public-affairs programming;
r. transmitting emergency communications;
s. preserving authenticated audiovisual records; and
t. maintaining international and diaspora distribution.
Article 11 — Fields of Programming
XaraTV may produce and distribute programming concerning:
a. constitutional affairs;
b. political science;
c. law;
d. public administration;
e. history;
f. Indigenous studies;
g. theology;
h. education;
i. culture;
j. languages;
k. economics;
l. environmental affairs;
m. science and technology;
n. territorial studies;
o. urban and regional affairs;
p. diplomacy and foreign affairs;
q. public security;
r. community affairs;
s. academic research; and
t. institutional history.
Additional fields may be authorized by competent authority.
TITLE IV — CLASSIFICATION OF AUDIOVISUAL PUBLICATIONS
Article 12 — Mandatory Institutional Classification
Every audiovisual production shall be classified according to its actual institutional, legal, editorial, academic, or documentary character.
The following classifications are established:
I. OFFICIAL ACT OR STATE ADDRESS
Material formally issued by a constitutionally competent authority in the exercise of official functions.
II. GOVERNMENTAL OR INSTITUTIONAL COMMUNICATION
Administrative, ministerial, or institutional public information issued by competent authority.
III. ACADEMIC PUBLICATION
Lectures, instruction, research, scholarly analysis, and University programming.
IV. DOCUMENTARY PRODUCTION
Historical, biographical, territorial, institutional, or investigative documentary material.
V. CULTURAL AND LINGUISTIC PRODUCTION
Material concerning languages, heritage, customary knowledge, artistic production, or community life.
VI. EDITORIAL PROGRAM
Interviews, analysis, public-affairs discussion, commentary, or journalistic programming possessing no legislative, judicial, or administrative force.
VII. EXTERNAL CONTRIBUTION
Material originating from an external contributor or partner.
VIII. LICENSED PRODUCTION
An externally produced audiovisual work distributed under an institutional license or agreement.
IX. CO-PRODUCTION
A work jointly produced by XaraTV and one or more authorized institutional or independent partners.
Supplementary archival, security, access, rights-management, or preservation classifications may be assigned where required.
Article 13 — Juridical Character of Publication
Publication through XaraTV shall not, by itself, transform:
a. commentary into legislation;
b. an interview into an official act;
c. academic analysis into governmental policy;
d. a documentary into a governmental finding;
e. an external production into State doctrine;
f. historical testimony into an adjudicated fact; or
g. theological programming into an official ecclesiastical determination.
Institutional character shall derive exclusively from competent origin, authorization, applicable procedure, and authentication.
TITLE V — OFFICIAL ACTS AND AUTHENTICATION
Article 14 — Conditions of Official Character
An audiovisual record may constitute or evidence an official institutional act only where:
a. the issuing authority possesses the required competence;
b. the authority acts in an expressly identified official capacity;
c. the underlying act has been adopted according to the applicable procedure;
d. the recording has been authenticated where required;
e. the competent register entry has been completed; and
f. mandatory written promulgation or publication has occurred where required by law.
Audiovisual publication shall not cure the absence of a mandatory constitutive form.
Article 15 — Audiovisual Evidence of State Acts
An authenticated XaraTV recording may constitute authoritative evidence of an official address, declaration, ceremony, proceeding, or institutional act within the constitutional order of Xaragua.
It shall not displace a written promulgation, signature, registration, or publication requirement applicable to the underlying juridical instrument unless competent law expressly provides otherwise.
The evidentiary status of a recording shall remain distinct from the substantive legal effect of the act recorded.
Article 16 — Authentication Framework
Authentication may employ:
a. institutional publication accounts;
b. documentary reference identifiers;
c. digital signatures;
d. electronic seals;
e. secure timestamps;
f. watermarks;
g. cryptographic hashes or checksums;
h. content credentials;
i. authenticated metadata;
j. publication registers; and
k. successor integrity technologies.
No single proprietary method shall constitute an indispensable condition of institutional authenticity.
TITLE VI — NATIONAL AUDIOVISUAL ARCHIVES OF XARAGUA
Article 17 — Establishment
There is hereby established the National Audiovisual Archives of Xaragua as the organized documentary body comprising audiovisual records designated for permanent constitutional, governmental, academic, territorial, historical, or cultural preservation.
The National Audiovisual Archives shall operate under the permanent archival authority of the General Archives of the State and shall not constitute a separate superior archival authority.
Article 18 — Archival Scope
The National Audiovisual Archives may preserve:
a. Rector-Presidential addresses;
b. governmental proceedings;
c. ministerial communications;
d. institutional ceremonies;
e. University lectures;
f. documentaries;
g. historical testimony;
h. oral histories;
i. territorial documentation;
j. architectural and environmental records;
k. Indigenous linguistic materials;
l. cultural documentation;
m. interviews;
n. emergency communications;
o. official broadcasts;
p. superseded productions possessing historical value; and
q. other audiovisual records designated for permanent preservation.
Article 19 — Documentary Registration
Permanent archival records shall, insofar as applicable, identify:
a. title;
b. originating authority;
c. production authority;
d. principal participants;
e. institutional capacities;
f. recording date;
g. publication date;
h. documentary identifier;
i. classification;
j. language;
k. editing status;
l. access status;
m. ownership and licensing status;
n. version history;
o. technical format;
p. integrity-verification record; and
q. transcript, captions, or documentary summary.
Subsequent archival annotations shall remain distinguishable from the original record.
Article 20 — Master Record
The authenticated master or formally designated archival version shall constitute the authoritative institutional audiovisual record.
Copies distributed through external platforms shall constitute distribution copies unless expressly authenticated as equivalent institutional copies.
Where a material discrepancy exists, the authenticated archival record and its associated registration data shall govern the internal documentary determination.
Article 21 — Source Preservation
Where an audiovisual record is edited, restored, translated, subtitled, dubbed, reformatted, excerpted, color-corrected, reconstructed, enhanced, or otherwise materially processed, the source or institutional master shall be preserved separately wherever required for documentary integrity.
Every derivative version shall be identified according to its actual character and shall remain traceable to the authenticated source.
No derivative production shall silently replace or supersede the source record.
TITLE VII — VERSION CONTROL, CORRECTION, AND WITHDRAWAL
Article 22 — Prohibition of Silent Alteration
No authenticated official audiovisual record shall be materially altered without corresponding documentary notation.
A modification affecting content, sequence, meaning, image, sound, duration, date, participant identification, or institutional context shall be recorded within the applicable correction or version history.
Article 23 — Corrective Record
A correction, replacement, restriction, withdrawal, or republication shall identify, insofar as applicable:
a. the affected production;
b. the competent authority;
c. the nature and extent of the action;
d. the effective date;
e. the documentary or legal basis;
f. the status of the former version; and
g. the archival location or classification of the preserved source.
Withdrawal from public circulation shall not be represented as destruction or legal nonexistence where the record remains preserved.
Article 24 — Restricted Former Versions
Withdrawal from public circulation shall not necessarily require destruction.
A former or original version may be restricted on grounds of:
a. institutional security;
b. privacy;
c. confidentiality;
d. protection of children;
e. protected cultural information;
f. religious discipline;
g. contractual restrictions;
h. copyright or related rights; or
i. protected proceedings.
Every restriction shall identify the competent authority, scope, basis, and applicable access conditions.
TITLE VIII — EVIDENTIARY AND DOCUMENTARY STATUS
Article 25 — Internal Documentary Effect
Authenticated recordings, certified transcripts, captions, metadata, production registers, integrity reports, and archival certificates may be received within Xaraguayan proceedings according to the jurisdiction and procedural rules of the receiving authority.
Authentication shall establish provenance and integrity only to the extent certified and shall not predetermine substantive evidentiary weight.
Article 26 — External Production
Where a XaraTV record is produced before an external authority, its admissibility, evidentiary weight, and legal effect shall be determined according to the law and procedure governing that authority.
The competent Xaraguayan institution may certify:
a. provenance;
b. custodial history;
c. authenticity;
d. technical integrity;
e. version status; and
f. documentary classification.
Such certification shall not determine the jurisdiction or final evidentiary assessment of the external authority.
TITLE IX — AUDIOVISUAL PRODUCTION AUTHORITY
Article 27 — State Productions
XaraTV may directly produce or commission audiovisual works falling within its institutional mandate.
Production authority may encompass:
a. concept development;
b. research;
c. filming;
d. sound and image recording;
e. editing;
f. narration;
g. subtitling;
h. translation;
i. post-production;
j. publication;
k. distribution;
l. licensing; and
m. archival deposit.
Each production shall remain subject to the competence, classification, rights, and access regime applicable to it.
Article 28 — Commissioned Productions
Audiovisual works commissioned by Xaragua shall be governed by written terms defining, where applicable:
a. production authority;
b. financial responsibility;
c. authorship and credits;
d. copyright and related rights;
e. editorial authority;
f. attribution;
g. distribution rights;
h. territorial scope;
i. archival deposit;
j. custody of source material;
k. derivative uses;
l. confidentiality and access; and
m. suspension or termination.
The commissioning institution shall secure the rights necessary for the governmental, academic, documentary, distribution, and archival purposes contemplated by the commission.
Article 29 — Independent Productions
Independent producers may create audiovisual works concerning Xaragua without thereby acquiring governmental status, institutional accreditation, official endorsement, or privileged access.
Express authorization shall be required where a production seeks privileged access to:
a. restricted State premises;
b. non-public archives;
c. confidential proceedings;
d. protected ceremonies;
e. officials participating expressly in official capacity under institutional production arrangements; or
f. institutional resources unavailable to the general public.
Article 30 — Filming Authorization
The competent authority may regulate organized filming conducted upon restricted property, controlled institutional facilities, or locations subject to special administrative protection.
Authorization may regulate:
a. access;
b. safety;
c. security;
d. scheduling;
e. environmental and heritage protection;
f. equipment;
g. archival obligations;
h. protected records;
i. institutional attribution; and
j. use of State identifiers.
Authorization to enter or film shall not, by itself, confer publication, commercial exploitation, or institutional endorsement rights.
TITLE X — CO-PRODUCTION, LICENSING, AND EXTERNAL PARTNERSHIPS
Article 31 — Co-Productions
XaraTV may conclude co-production agreements with:
a. universities;
b. Indigenous institutions;
c. documentary producers;
d. broadcasters;
e. archives;
f. museums;
g. cultural institutions;
h. educational organizations;
i. Catholic institutions;
j. governmental institutions; and
k. other competent partners.
Every co-production shall remain subject to a written allocation of authority, responsibility, rights, and documentary custody.
Article 32 — Required Terms
Co-production and distribution agreements shall define, as appropriate:
a. legal status of the parties;
b. production responsibilities;
c. financing;
d. editorial authority;
e. intellectual-property ownership;
f. licensing;
g. attribution;
h. branding;
i. distribution territories and platforms;
j. duration;
k. archival rights;
l. source-material custody;
m. suspension and termination; and
n. dispute procedures.
No party shall acquire rights or institutional authority beyond those expressly conferred by the governing agreement.
Article 33 — Licensed Productions
XaraTV may acquire or receive licenses to distribute external audiovisual productions consistent with its institutional mandate.
Distribution through XaraTV shall not convert the external producer into an organ of Xaragua, transform the licensed production into an official State act, or imply governmental adoption of every statement contained therein.
The licensed character of the production shall remain documentarily identifiable.
TITLE XI — CULTURAL, LINGUISTIC, TERRITORIAL, AND SYMBOLIC HERITAGE
Article 34 — Cultural Documentation
XaraTV may document and preserve:
a. oral histories;
b. customary practices;
c. ceremonies;
d. community testimony;
e. artistic works;
f. architecture;
g. historical sites;
h. landscapes;
i. territorial memory;
j. Indigenous terminology;
k. traditional knowledge;
l. music;
m. material culture; and
n. other elements of Xaraguayan cultural life.
Documentation shall remain subject to applicable requirements concerning access, consent, cultural authority, intellectual property, and archival classification.
Article 35 — Linguistic Mission
XaraTV shall contribute to the institutional use, preservation, documentation, and development of Xaraguayan Kreyòl.
Programming may additionally be produced in French, English, Spanish, and other languages appropriate to the academic, cultural, diplomatic, ecclesiastical, or international functions of the institution.
No difference in institutional authenticity shall arise solely from the language of production.
Article 36 — Cultural Authority and Consent
Collection, recording, custody, processing, and publication of protected cultural material shall respect applicable requirements concerning:
a. authorization and consent;
b. customary authority;
c. community interests;
d. provenance;
e. attribution;
f. confidentiality;
g. cultural integrity;
h. access restrictions; and
i. intellectual and cultural property.
No technical act of recording shall extinguish the authority or restrictions applicable to the underlying cultural material.
Article 37 — Restricted Cultural and Ceremonial Material
Custody of audiovisual material shall not, by itself, confer unrestricted rights of publication, reproduction, adaptation, transfer, or commercial exploitation.
Attendance at a ceremony, religious service, or protected cultural event shall not constitute authorization to record, publish, distribute, or commercially exploit that event.
The applicable authorization shall be determined by the competent institutional, customary, ecclesiastical, or rights-holding authority.
TITLE XII — INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY AND INSTITUTIONAL IDENTITY
Article 38 — Audiovisual Rights
Rights in audiovisual productions shall be determined according to applicable law, contractual instruments, licenses, commissions, and the legal status of the persons participating in production.
Rights lawfully vested in Xaragua or its institutions shall be administered by the competent authority.
Institutional custody of a copy shall not, by itself, transfer copyright, related rights, or ownership of the underlying work.
Article 39 — Contributors and Performers
Applicable permissions shall be secured concerning authors, performers, photographers, cinematographers, directors, composers, narrators, interviewees, and other contributors where required for:
a. recording;
b. editing;
c. reproduction;
d. subtitling;
e. translation;
f. dubbing;
g. archival preservation;
h. broadcasting;
i. digital distribution; and
j. derivative production.
The scope of permission shall be determined by the governing instrument and applicable law.
Article 40 — Institutional Symbols and Identifiers
Seals, coats of arms, flags, official titles, program identities, uniforms, visual signatures, and institutional designations may be protected against deceptive or unauthorized institutional use.
Historical, journalistic, academic, documentary, or descriptive depiction shall not, by itself, constitute institutional endorsement.
No depiction shall confer authority to act or communicate in the name of Xaragua.
Article 41 — False Institutional Attribution
Within systems and relations governed by Xaragua, it is prohibited knowingly to:
a. represent unofficial material as an official XaraTV production;
b. materially alter an authenticated record and represent the alteration as the original;
c. impersonate an authorized broadcaster or institutional authority;
d. employ institutional identifiers for fraudulent representation;
e. fabricate institutional communications;
f. remove authentication information for deceptive purposes; or
g. represent an independent production falsely as commissioned, licensed, or endorsed by Xaragua.
Applicable sanctions shall derive exclusively from duly promulgated law and competent procedure.
Article 42 — Institutional Titles and Productions
Officially established State titles, awards, competitions, channels, series, and audiovisual properties may be administered and protected according to their respective juridical status.
No independent person or organization shall acquire official institutional status merely by adopting an identical or confusingly represented designation.
Similarity of title alone shall not determine infringement; the institutional context, representation, authorization, and applicable legal protection shall govern.
TITLE XIII — SYNTHETIC MEDIA AND ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
Article 43 — Synthetic Institutional Impersonation
Synthetic or manipulated audiovisual material shall not be represented as an authentic communication of the Rector-President, a State officer, a University authority, or another institutional representative where the depicted act or statement did not occur or was not authorized.
This prohibition applies irrespective of the technology employed to create, modify, or distribute the material.
Article 44 — Authorized Synthetic Production
XaraTV may employ synthetic images, synthetic voices, digital reconstruction, restoration, translation, dubbing, generative systems, and other machine-assisted technologies for lawful institutional, academic, cultural, accessibility, archival, or documentary purposes.
Where a material risk of confusion exists, the synthetic, reconstructed, restored, translated, or machine-assisted character of the production shall be expressly identified.
Authorization for one synthetic use shall not confer general authorization for subsequent uses.
Article 45 — Preservation of Documentary Truth
No synthetic process shall silently replace an authenticated historical or institutional source record.
Where a reconstruction is produced from an incomplete, damaged, or absent source, that reconstruction shall remain documentarily distinguishable from the historical evidence upon which it is based.
A reconstruction shall not be classified as direct historical footage unless its actual character supports that classification.
Article 46 — Automated Processing
Automated systems may assist with:
a. transcription;
b. captioning;
c. translation;
d. indexing;
e. search and retrieval;
f. cataloguing;
g. restoration;
h. accessibility;
i. documentary classification; and
j. technical production.
Automated processing shall not independently confer official status, determine final institutional classification, or displace the responsible authority.

TITLE XIV — NATIONAL AUDIOVISUAL DISTRIBUTION
Article 47 — Distribution Authority
XaraTV may distribute authorized programming through any technically appropriate and lawfully available audiovisual infrastructure.
Distribution may be simultaneous, sequential, scheduled, continuous, on-demand, downloadable, or archival according to the classification and authorization applicable to the production.
The method of distribution shall not alter the institutional provenance of the material.
Article 48 — External Distribution
External hosting or distribution shall not modify the institutional provenance, authorship, or classification of XaraTV material.
External platforms shall constitute technical distribution mechanisms subject to applicable agreements, operating rules, and mandatory legal conditions.
No external platform shall acquire authority to determine the internal juridical status of a XaraTV production.
Article 49 — Institutional Master and Distribution Copies
The institutional master record shall be maintained independently of the continued availability of any external platform.
Removal, suspension, transcoding, compression, algorithmic treatment, modification, account closure, or discontinuation of an external distribution copy shall not extinguish the authenticated institutional master.
Distribution copies shall remain subordinate to the documentary status of the master record.
TITLE XV — NATIONAL AUDIOVISUAL DISTRIBUTION DOCTRINE
Article 50 — Digital-First Audiovisual Order
Xaragua hereby adopts a digital-first, archive-centered, distributed, and technologically neutral national audiovisual model.
XaraTV constitutes the principal permanent institutional television and organized audiovisual service within that model.
Its infrastructure shall prioritize:
a. authenticated institutional publication;
b. on-demand access;
c. scheduled programming where appropriate;
d. documentary permanence;
e. territorial accessibility;
f. supralocal accessibility;
g. multilingual distribution;
h. academic integration;
i. archival preservation;
j. technological portability;
k. infrastructure resilience; and
l. interoperability with successor broadcasting systems.
Article 51 — Territorial and Supralocal Accessibility
XaraTV shall maintain institutional capacity to serve:
a. autonomous communities;
b. territorial institutions;
c. University students;
d. Xaraguayan communities situated outside the ancestral territory;
e. academic and cultural partners; and
f. authorized international audiences.
Access shall not be institutionally conditioned upon proximity to a single broadcasting installation.
Article 52 — Scheduled and On-Demand Television
XaraTV may maintain:
a. scheduled channels;
b. continuous programming streams;
c. on-demand libraries;
d. documentary collections;
e. educational channels;
f. thematic programming;
g. archival channels;
h. emergency programming; and
i. successor audiovisual formats.
The distinction between scheduled television and on-demand publication shall be administrative and technical and shall not affect the legal continuity of XaraTV.
Article 53 — Terrestrial, Cable, Satellite, and Community Distribution
The constitutional mandate of XaraTV shall not be confined to Internet distribution.
Where institutionally authorized and technically available, XaraTV programming may be transmitted through:
a. terrestrial television;
b. cable systems;
c. satellite systems;
d. community broadcasting;
e. digital television;
f. institutional retransmission agreements;
g. emergency broadcasting systems; and
h. successor audiovisual technologies.
Such mechanisms shall constitute additional means of exercising the permanent audiovisual function of XaraTV.
Article 54 — Radiofrequency Operations
Use of radiofrequency spectrum shall proceed according to the technical authorizations and legal arrangements applicable to the infrastructure and location from which transmission occurs.
The institutional constitution of XaraTV shall remain legally distinct from any external allocation, license, coordination, or technical authorization required for a particular spectrum operation.
No provision of this Statute shall, by itself, constitute a radiofrequency authorization.
TITLE XVI — AUDIOVISUAL SECURITY AND OPERATIONAL CONTINUITY
Article 55 — Communications Security
The Ministry of Communication shall maintain proportionate administrative standards concerning:
a. account authentication;
b. credential management;
c. access control;
d. source-record preservation;
e. unpublished productions;
f. institutional master files;
g. backup and recovery;
h. incident documentation;
i. confidential material;
j. unauthorized publication; and
k. compromised distribution channels.
Article 56 — Classified Technical Information
Operational information whose disclosure would materially compromise protected infrastructure, archival integrity, account security, restricted productions, or communications continuity may be maintained separately under the appropriate administrative classification.
Nothing in this public Statute requires publication of credentials, system vulnerabilities, security architecture, protected storage locations, or restricted operational procedures.
Article 57 — Redundancy
Audiovisual records possessing permanent value shall, insofar as practicable, be maintained with sufficient technical and custodial redundancy to permit recovery following:
a. equipment failure;
b. corruption of data;
c. provider failure;
d. loss of an account;
e. infrastructure migration;
f. physical disruption; or
g. another material interruption.
Redundant copies shall preserve provenance, classification, integrity data, and access restrictions.
TITLE XVII — TECHNOLOGICAL AND INSTITUTIONAL SUCCESSION
Article 58 — Permanent Institutional Continuity
XaraTV shall continue notwithstanding:
a. replacement of personnel;
b. ministerial reorganization;
c. administrative restructuring;
d. relocation of production facilities;
e. domain-name changes;
f. hosting migration;
g. software replacement;
h. equipment replacement;
i. discontinuation of external platforms;
j. replacement of distribution technologies; or
k. technological obsolescence.
Its legal continuity shall attach to its institutional mandate and not to any particular technical implementation.
Article 59 — Successor Systems
Successor infrastructure shall inherit, according to institutional requirements:
a. archives;
b. identifiers;
c. program classifications;
d. authentication histories;
e. publication registers;
f. rights records;
g. licenses;
h. access restrictions; and
i. documentary provenance.
Technological succession shall not constitute institutional extinction, dissolution, or re-establishment.
TITLE XVIII — RELATIONSHIP WITH THE STATE COMMUNICATIONS ORDER
Article 60 — Coordinated Communications Institutions
XaraTV operates within the coordinated communications architecture of Xaragua alongside:
a. XaraTimes — written institutional publication and press communications;
b. XaraGram — institutional social communication and regulated public digital interaction;
c. XaraStreams — real-time audiovisual transmission and initial authenticated audiovisual capture;
d. XaraCast — podcasting, spoken-word institutional programming, and documentary audio;
e. XaraSound — cultural and institutional audio transmission;
f. University of Xaragua communications and academic services; and
g. any successor communications institution lawfully established.
Coordination shall not extinguish the distinct competence, documentary provenance, or administrative responsibility of any institution.
Article 61 — Primary Competence of XaraTV
Within the State communications architecture, XaraTV possesses primary institutional competence for:
a. institutional television;
b. organized audiovisual programming;
c. documentary film;
d. educational video;
e. recorded public-affairs programming;
f. institutional interviews in audiovisual form;
g. audiovisual historical productions;
h. scheduled video broadcasting;
i. on-demand institutional video collections; and
j. audiovisual archives associated with its productions.
Article 62 — Relationship with XaraStreams
XaraStreams possesses primary institutional competence for real-time audiovisual transmission and initial authenticated capture of live institutional events.
XaraTV possesses primary institutional competence for organized, edited, scheduled, documentary, and on-demand audiovisual programming.
A live XaraStreams record may subsequently be transferred, edited, classified, and distributed through XaraTV, provided that:
a. its original provenance remains identifiable;
b. the authenticated source is preserved;
c. every material modification is documented; and
d. the derivative production is assigned its proper classification.
TITLE XIX — CATHOLIC AND ECCLESIASTICAL MATERIAL
Article 63 — Religious Programming
Catholic, theological, devotional, liturgical, historical, and ecclesiastical programming may be produced or distributed through XaraTV according to the actual canonical and institutional status of the originating authority, association, or undertaking.
Distribution through XaraTV shall not independently confer ecclesiastical approval, canonical mission, public juridical personality, or doctrinal authority.
Article 64 — Ecclesiastical Competence
No XaraTV production shall be represented as an official decree, doctrinal determination, liturgical act, or communication issued in the name of the Catholic Church unless that status proceeds from competent ecclesiastical authority under applicable canon law.
Audiovisual publication shall neither create, transfer, enlarge, nor extinguish ecclesiastical competence.
TITLE XX — INDIGENOUS JURIDICAL AND CULTURAL FOUNDATION
Article 65 — Institutional Foundation
This Statute proceeds from the authority exercised within the Xaraguayan Indigenous institutional order to maintain and develop its communications, educational, cultural, linguistic, and documentary institutions.
Its interpretation may have regard, according to the respective legal character and applicability of each instrument, to:
a. common Article 1 of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights and the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights;
b. Article 13 of the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples concerning histories, languages, oral traditions, and philosophies;
c. Article 16 concerning Indigenous media;
d. Article 31 concerning cultural heritage, traditional knowledge, and cultural expressions;
e. Article 34 concerning Indigenous institutional structures and procedures;
f. Articles 18, 19, and 27 of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights according to their respective subject matter; and
g. applicable principles governing intangible cultural heritage and Indigenous institutional, linguistic, and cultural continuity.
These references shall not modify the territorial scope, binding conditions, or legal character of the instruments concerned.
TITLE XXI — REGULATORY AUTHORITY
Article 66 — Implementing Power
The Ministry of Communication may issue regulations, production standards, broadcasting protocols, documentary classifications, licensing instruments, archival schedules, filming procedures, and technical standards concerning:
a. programming;
b. production;
c. filming;
d. authentication;
e. classification;
f. publication;
g. archives;
h. distribution;
i. co-production;
j. licensing;
k. institutional identifiers;
l. intellectual property;
m. security;
n. automated processing;
o. technical migration; and
p. institutional continuity.
No implementing instrument may enlarge the Ministry’s authority beyond the competence conferred by this Statute or another superior law.
Article 67 — Academic Regulations
The University of Xaragua may establish regulations governing audiovisual productions falling within its academic competence, including:
a. academic attribution;
b. educational classification;
c. course integration;
d. research dissemination;
e. academic reuse;
f. scholarly archives; and
g. documentary preservation.
Such regulations shall operate within the University’s academic jurisdiction and shall not independently create State-wide governmental effects.
TITLE XXII — TRANSITIONAL AND FINAL PROVISIONS
Article 68 — Continuity of Existing Records
Valid productions, program series, archival collections, institutional identifiers, contracts, and administrative acts previously established under the designation XaraTV may be incorporated into the present system following documentary verification and classification.
Their original dates, provenance, rights status, and historical context shall be preserved.
The date of subsequent incorporation shall remain distinguishable from the date of original production or publication.
Article 69 — Historical Classification
Archival incorporation shall not retrospectively confer official governmental character upon a production that did not possess such status when originally issued.
Historical preservation, documentary authenticity, institutional provenance, and juridical classification constitute separate determinations.
Article 70 — Supersession
This Statute supersedes every inconsistent prior provision specifically governing XaraTV and the central institutional audiovisual function of Xaragua.
Earlier instruments shall remain preserved for constitutional, administrative, and historical purposes.
Existing lawful licenses, contracts, authorizations, archival classifications, and administrative acts shall remain effective according to their terms unless amended, terminated, or superseded by competent authority.
Article 71 — Entry into Force
This Supreme Organic Statute shall enter into force upon promulgation.
It shall be entered in:
a. the Constitutional Register;
b. the Official Gazette;
c. the General Archives of the State;
d. the institutional communications register;
e. the National Audiovisual Archives; and
f. the permanent digital archives of Xaragua.
PROMULGATION
DONE UNDER THE SUPREME CONSTITUTIONAL AUTHORITY OF THE SOVEREIGN CATHOLIC INDIGENOUS AND PRIVATE STATE OF XARAGUA
PROMULGATED AT MIRAGOÂNE ON 26 AUGUST 2026
OFFICE OF THE RECTOR-PRESIDENT
RECTOR-PRESIDENT OF XARAGUA
MINISTRY OF COMMUNICATION
UNIVERSITY OF XARAGUA
GENERAL ARCHIVES OF THE STATE
SUPREME ORGANIC STATE COMMUNICATIONS INSTRUMENT — PERMANENTLY IN FORCE
ANNEX I
ORGANIC DOCTRINE ON NATIONAL AUDIOVISUAL DISTRIBUTION, TERRITORIAL ACCESSIBILITY, DOCUMENTARY PRESERVATION, AND TECHNOLOGICAL CONTINUITY
Organic Attachment to the Supreme Organic Statute of XaraTV
Article I — National Audiovisual Model
The institutional audiovisual system of Xaragua shall be organized according to a digital-first, archive-centered, distributed, and technologically neutral national model.
XaraTV constitutes the principal permanent institutional television and organized audiovisual service within that model.
The digital-first character of the system constitutes an affirmative administrative determination governing national audiovisual communications and shall not be construed as a provisional substitute for a terrestrial television structure.
Article II — Governing Principles
The national audiovisual model shall prioritize:
a. institutional authentication;
b. documentary permanence;
c. territorial accessibility;
d. supralocal accessibility;
e. scheduled and on-demand availability;
f. multilingual distribution;
g. academic integration;
h. archival preservation;
i. administrative proportionality;
j. infrastructure resilience;
k. technological portability;
l. distributed publication; and
m. interoperability with successor transmission systems.
Article III — Distributed Accessibility
The national audiovisual service shall be organized so that institutional programming does not depend structurally upon proximity to a single broadcasting installation.
Programming may be transmitted, replicated, or made available through multiple authorized infrastructures while preserving a single ascertainable institutional provenance.
Distribution through multiple systems shall not divide the originating authority or alter the legal classification of the production.
Article IV — Dual Broadcasting and Documentary Function
XaraTV shall exercise concurrently:
a. a broadcasting function; and
b. a documentary function.
Audiovisual productions possessing institutional value shall therefore be capable of:
i. authentication;
ii. registration;
iii. classification;
iv. captioning;
v. transcription;
vi. indexing;
vii. archival preservation; and
viii. subsequent consultation.
Immediate transmission shall not supersede permanent documentary preservation.
Article V — Administrative Organization
The State audiovisual system shall direct institutional resources toward:
a. production;
b. public information;
c. education;
d. documentary creation;
e. authentication;
f. publication;
g. archival preservation;
h. territorial accessibility;
i. communications security; and
j. technological continuity.
No legacy broadcasting architecture shall be presumed institutionally necessary where the assigned audiovisual function may be performed through another technically appropriate system.
Article VI — Resilience and Distributed Infrastructure
The national audiovisual system shall avoid unnecessary dependence upon any single:
a. studio;
b. transmitter;
c. broadcasting site;
d. server;
e. provider;
f. application;
g. domain;
h. external account; or
i. technical standard.
Master records and essential institutional publications shall remain capable of preservation, migration, authentication, and recovery.
Article VII — Scheduled Television
The digital-first model shall not exclude continuous or scheduled television.
XaraTV may maintain a programmed institutional channel comprising sequential broadcasts, recurring programs, documentary blocks, academic programming, public information, and archival rebroadcasting.
Scheduled transmission and on-demand access may operate concurrently without creating separate juridical institutions.
Article VIII — Supplementary Physical Broadcasting Infrastructure
Terrestrial, cable, satellite, community, institutional, or emergency television systems may be established, authorized, or incorporated where justified by public-service requirements.
Such systems shall supplement the permanent XaraTV institutional and documentary architecture.
They may originate or retransmit programming only according to their assigned competence and applicable technical authorization.
Article IX — Academic Integration
The national audiovisual system may serve as an academic distribution and preservation infrastructure of the University of Xaragua.
Lectures, courses, conferences, documentaries, field recordings, historical materials, and other authorized educational productions may be incorporated into academic instruction while preserving their original provenance, classification, authorship, and rights status.
Article X — Territorial Documentation
XaraTV may maintain systematic audiovisual documentation of territories, communities, institutions, historical sites, architecture, landscapes, environmental conditions, public works, cultural practices, and other matters possessing enduring documentary significance.
Such materials may be registered, classified, authenticated, and preserved as components of the institutional audiovisual record.
Documentary recording shall not, by itself, modify ownership, jurisdiction, cultural authority, or access rights concerning the subject documented.
Article XI — International and Diaspora Accessibility
The State audiovisual system may maintain permanent distribution capacity for Xaraguayan communities, University students, academic partners, and authorized audiences situated beyond the geographic reach of physical broadcasting infrastructure.
International accessibility constitutes a communications function and shall not alter the provenance, jurisdictional character, or institutional classification of the transmitted material.
Article XII — Technological Succession
The national audiovisual doctrine shall be interpreted according to the principle of continuous technological adaptability.
The disappearance, replacement, or obsolescence of technology employed at the date of promulgation shall not require the juridical reconstitution of XaraTV.
Successor technologies may be incorporated by competent administrative act while preserving:
a. institutional identity;
b. archives;
c. documentary provenance;
d. authentication history;
e. rights records;
f. classifications;
g. access restrictions; and
h. public-service continuity.
Article XIII — Permanent Determination
XaraTV is constituted as the permanent audiovisual institution of Xaragua because audiovisual broadcasting, documentary production, educational video, institutional television, and archival preservation constitute continuing State functions.
The technologies through which those functions are exercised shall remain legally subordinate to the institution and may evolve without alteration of its constitutional identity or mandate.
Article XIV — Organic Force
This Annex forms an integral administrative and doctrinal component of the Supreme Organic Statute of XaraTV.
Its provisions shall govern the organization and technological development of the national institutional audiovisual system unless amended or superseded by a subsequent competent organic instrument.
RATIFICATION
RATIFIED UNDER THE AUTHORITY OF THE OFFICE OF THE RECTOR-PRESIDENT
MINISTRY OF COMMUNICATION
UNIVERSITY OF XARAGUA
GENERAL ARCHIVES OF THE STATE
MIRAGOÂNE — 26 AUGUST 2026