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On 29 April 1999, the Portuguese Parliament revoked Law decree nº15/99 of 15 January 1999 on Cinema, Audiovisual and Multimedia. The law decree 15/99 was approved by the Council of Ministers and regulated the sector since early this year but the opposition parties struck down the legal framework defined by the government for this sector. Thus bringing back into effect the former Cinema and Audiovisual law of 1993 (Law decree nº 350/93 of 7 October 1993). According to the introductory words of the Law decree nº 15/99, this new legal tool was necessary because the previous law was `insufficient'...

Violence on Portuguese terrestrial channels is particularly acute on entertainment programmes, reveals the first in-depth study concerning the representation of violence on Portuguese television, sponsored by the Alta Autoridade para a Comunicaçao Social (High Authority for the Media) and published in March 1999. Violence in entertainment programming is very high in terms of presence (number of programmes which have at least one violent interaction), frequency (average of violent interactions in a given programme) and density (duration of violent interactions in a given programme). Indeed, violence...

Alleged unfair treatment of candidates for the European Parliament placed the High Authority for the Media ( Alta Autoridade para a Comunicação Social) at the centre of a major political controversy in Portugal. On 3 March 1999, the High Authority for the Media stated that the public broadcaster ( Rádiotelevisão Portuguesa, RTP) was not giving equal treatment to candidates for the European Parliament. This deliberation followed a formal complaint by two opposition parties (Social Democratic Party and Popular Party) against RTP following the broadcast of a series of programmes called Conversas de...

In IRIS 1996-5: 10 we published an overview of the State of Signatures and Ratifications of all European Conventions and other international treaties that are relevant to the audio-visual sector. In IRIS 1996-7: 5, IRIS 1996-8: 6 (September issue), IRIS 1996-9: 7 (October issue), IRIS 1996-10: 5 and in IRIS Special 1996 we updated this overview. We can now report that in the meantime, Slovakia ratified the European Convention on transfrontier television. Slovakia, which signed this Convention on 11 September 1996, ratified it on 20 January 1997. Consequently, the date of entry into force will be...

In IRIS 1996-5: 7-10 we published an overview of the state of Signatures and Ratifications of European Conventions and other international treaties that are relevant to the audiovisual sector. The listing of when States became Party to the Convention relating to the distribution of programme-carrying signals transmitted by satellite (printed on page 8) is, however, not correct. Accidentily it reproduces the dates on which States became Party to the Berne Convention for the protection of copyright of literary and artistic works (as printed on page 7). The correct date on which States became Party...