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On 14 July 2004, The European Commission decided to initiate proceedings in accordance with Article 88(2) of the EEC Treaty against the Swedish State regarding state aid in connection with the establishment of digital terrestrial television ("DTT") in Sweden. In 2000, the Swedish State gave the state owned entity Teracom permission to extend the DTT network to cover the entire country, and in 2003, the State decided that the DTT network should be extended to cover approximately 98-99% of the population. In 2002, the Swedish Government was authorized to issue an interim credit warranty of SEK 2,000...

Sweden has made amendments to the Radio and Television Act to the effect that short overruns of the permitted advertising time per hour can be accepted if they were unforeseen. Sweden has stricter rules on the amount of permitted advertising than is stipulated in the "Television Without Frontiers" Directive. According to the Swedish Radio and Television Act, advertising may be broadcast for not more than 8 minutes in each clock hour. In television broadcasts this amount may be extended to not more than 10 minutes during broadcasting hours between7.00 p.m. and midnight. The amount of advertising...

In February this year, Granskningsnämnden för radio och TV (the Swedish Broadcasting Commission) had to decide whether the national commercial television channel TV4, could be blamed because of its refusal to broadcast a commercial concerning scientific testing on animals. The commercial was a parody of the well-known commercial for L'oréal with the slogan: "because I'm worth it". The testing was illustrated by a brief cartoon, in which a small animal had, for example, corrosive acid sprayed in his eyes. A beautiful real-life woman said ironically that she wanted to protect what were the most precious...

The European Commission against Racism and Intolerance (ECRI) recently made public six new reports as part of the second cycle of its monitoring process of the laws, policies and practices to combat racism in the Member States of the Council of Europe. Each of the reports (Andorra (CRI (2003) 2), Azerbaijan (CRI (2003) 3), Liechtenstein (CRI (2003) 4), Lithuania (CRI (2003) 5), Moldova (CRI (2003) 6) and Sweden (CRI (2003) 7)) contains provisions on the media. A recurrent theme in the reports is that of self-regulatory codes of conduct for the media profession. In Andorra, Azerbaijan and Moldova,...

The national film institutes of the 15 Member States of the European Union have made a common declaration on the importance of State aid for European films. This is the first time the film institutes have made a common statement. The national film institutes are publicly funded and were founded to support national and European film culture. In this common declaration the institutes express their concerns regarding the necessity for State aid for European films. The institutes are worried that the audio-visual sector in Europe will be left solely to the chances of free market forces. In the declaration,...