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The Rady pro rozhlasové a televizní vysílání (Council for Radio and Television Broadcasting, RRTV) as the central administrative authority for radio and television broadcasting, decided on 18 September 2018 to fine the advertiser Vetrisol for breach of duty pursuant to section 5d(2) of Act No. 40/1995 on the Regulation of Advertising and on Amendments to Act No. 468/1991 on radio and television broadcasting pursuant to Article 7 (3) and (4) (a), Regulation (EU) No. 1169/2011 of the European Parliament and of the Council. The aforementioned provisions provide that food information may not attribute...

The Council for Radio and TV Broadcasting imposed a fine of CZK 500 000 (EUR 20 000) on the advertiser of a commercial message — Central European Stone Trade Enterprises Kft. — due to unfair commercial practices. The Council stated that in the TV programme "Barrandov" on 30 March 2017, the advertiser infringed section 2 (1) (b) of the Czech Advertisement Regulation Act (Act No. 40/1995 Coll.) and Article 4 (3) of the Czech Consumer Protection Act (Act No. 634/1992 Coll.). It alleged that the advertiser had falsely declared that a piece of jewellery of the "Saint Margaret Collection" could cure...

The Municipal Court in Prague granted the application of TV Prima for interim measures regarding Skylink decryption cards. Operators should not breach their contracts with TV Prima by distributing its programmes outside of the Czech Republic, thus running the risk of being penalised by global copyright holders for foreign programmes. In particular, the Court issued an interim injunction against M7 Group Luxembourg preventing it from distributing TV Prima channels actually intended for Czech viewers in Slovakia. The Court ordered M7 Group to block access to the channels Prima, Prima Cool, Prima...

The Council for Radio and Television Broadcasting (hereinafter referred to as the Council), as the central administrative authority, issued a  warning to the broadcaster Česká televize for breach of the provisions of Section 31 (3) of Act No. 231/2001 Coll. (Broadcasting Act), an infringement which the operator shall have committed by broadcasting the programme item Václav Moravec's Questions - Part 2 on the CT24 programme at 1.05 p.m. on 22 October 2017. Specialists Tomáš Sedláček and Jan Svejnar, both of whom have long been promoting the adoption of the euro, were invited as guests to participate...

The First Chamber of the Constitutional Court upheld TV Nova's constitutional complaint that a fine from the Council for Radio and Television Broadcasting for the "Handbook on What Clothes in the Church" (“Příručka poradí, co do kostela”) report violated TV Nova’s right to freedom of expression. The Constitutional Court annulled the judgment of the Supreme Administrative Court, the judgment of the Municipal Court in Prague and the decision of the Council for Radio and Television Broadcasting relating to the violatation of Article 17 (1) of the Charter of Fundamental Rights and Freedoms (freedom...