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The Norwegian Ministry of Justice recently released a White Paper with proposed amendments to the Norwegian Consumer Purchase Act. Enacted in 2002, the Consumer Purchase Act establishes a relatively strong consumer protection scheme that inter alia includes mandatory regulation of several aspects of such purchases, e.g. delivery, defects, delay, sanctions and remedies. The traditional definition of a “purchase” in Norwegian law is confined to the acquisition of physical objects. Against this background, the Consumer Purchase Act clearly applies to physical objects purchased online. On the other...

In a recent Green Paper, the Norwegian Ministry of Culture has proposed the introduction of a new Culture Act. The Green Paper also raises the question of a constitutional protection of cultural matters, however, without yet presenting a proposal in that respect. Contrary to existing laws relating to cultural matters, the proposed Culture Act is to have general application, i.e. it is to comprise cultural activities throughout the entire cultural sector. In this context, “cultural activities” shall be understood in a broad sense and shall encompass the creation, production, performance, communication...

On 14 November 2006, the EFTA Surveillance Authority decided not to raise objections to the prolongation of two Norwegian support schemes to audiovisual production, film related activities and film production companies. The proposed prolongation had been duly notified by the Norwegian authorities to the EFTA Surveillance Authority and concerns two different Regulations: Forskrift om tilskudd til audiovisuelle produksjoner (Regulation on support for audiovisual production) and Forskrift om tilskudd til produksjonsselskaper (Regulation on support for film production companies). The objective of the...

The license to build and operate the Digital Terrestrial Network for Television (DTT) in Norway was earlier this year assigned to a company named Norges television AS. The owners are the public service broadcaster NRK (Norwegian Broadcasting Corp.), the commercial (also public service) broadcaster TV 2 and Telenor Broadcast Holding AS,a major player in the field of distribution of broadcasting and telecom. The three partners hold equal ownership shares. There were no other applicants competing for this digital terrestrial network license. There are a total of five multiplexes (six in some regions)....

On 19 May 2006, the Red-Green Government in Norway informed Parliament that the prohibition on political and religious advertising on TV, as laid down in the Broadcasting Act, will be upheld. The decision reversed the former Government’s proposal to repeal the ban. Last summer, the previous Government in Norway circulated for public review a proposal to allow political and religious advertising on TV except for a period of four weeks before and on Election Day where a total ban should apply. No particular regulation was proposed on such advertising outside this period, even though limitations on...