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The Broadcasting Authority has launched a consultation process on the formulation of new Requirements as to standards and practice regulating programmes involving the participation of certain health care professionals in the broadcast media, and on advertisements, methods of advertising, and directions applicable to medicinal products and medical treatments. An Advisory Committee was set up by the Broadcasting Authority to draw up a consultation document, and is composed of one representative each of the Broadcasting Authority, the Consumer Affairs Council, the Medical Council, the Pharmacy Council,...

The Broadcasting Authority has recently approved Guidelines on Gender Equality and Gender Portrayal in the Broadcasting Media. These Guidelines apply to all programmes, including news and advertisements, broadcast on radio and television stations in Malta and are intended to sensitise the broadcasting media to gender equality and portrayal. They are directed towards the people in production, decision-makers at broadcasting stations and producers of advertisements. These Guidelines direct producers to use gender inclusive vocabulary and images. They deal with gender role portrayal in television...

The Prime Minister has created new regulations under the terms of article 37(1) of the Broadcasting Act in order to regulate short news reporting. These regulations, which are known as the “Broadcasting (Short News Reporting) Regulations, 2007” came into force on 1 July 2007. In terms of these regulations, the Prime Minister has directed the Broadcasting Authority to conform to Malta’s international obligations assumed under Article 9 of the Council of Europe’s European Convention on Transfrontier Television,which deals with short news reporting. The right to short news reporting of an event where...

Following a consultation process earlier this year (see IRIS 2007-5: 15), the Broadcasting Authority has discussed the feedback it has received to its consultation document on programmes dealing with motor vehicles (hereinafter referred to as “vehicles”). The Authority has emphasised that this type of programme should not be of an advertising nature but of an informative and educational nature. Naturally, the current laws will still apply to such programmes but these programmes should in particular conform, with effect from 1October 2007, to the following: a) Programmes dealing with vehicles will...

Following a consultation process carried out by the Broadcasting Authority at the beginning of this year (see IRIS 2007-5: 15) and after having gone through the feedback it received, the Authority is requesting programmes concerning immovable property to conform, with effect from 1 October 2007, to the following: a) The programme in question does not contain surreptitious advertising; b) No logos or shop fronts of estate agents may be shown during the programme; c) The person who describes the immovable property should not be an employee or a representative of an estate agency; d) The specific...