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On 19 February 2013, the Supreme Court (“Court”) confirmed a fine imposed on a provider of audiovisual on-demand services (VoD) by the Council for Broadcasting and Retransmission of the Slovak republic (“Council”). The fine of EUR 100 refers to the failure to label programmes and videos in the VoD catalogue with proper visual symbols indicating the appropriate age group of minors. The service in question is the online catch-up TV service for the Slovak major TV channel “joj”. The videos contained extracts from the reality show “Hotel Paradise”. These videos were however promoted by the VoD service...

On 14 March 2013, the Minister of Culture signed the amendment of the Decree No. 589/2007 Coll. laying down details on a single labelling system for audiovisual works, audio recordings of artistic performances, multimedia works, programmes and other components of programme services (“labelling system”). The amendment came into force on 1 April 2013 and by this date the second watershed (15+ programmes only after 8 pm) was revived in Slovakia. The second watershed was part of the original labelling system that applied to television programmes only. In 2008, this labelling system was replaced by...

On 9 April 2013, the Council for Broadcasting and Retransmission of the Slovak Republic (“CBR”) dismissed a complaint against a satirical video about the President of the Slovak Republic (“President”), which had been provided within the audiovisual on-demand service (“TV” section) of one of the major Slovak press publishers. The video provided allegedly “leaked” audiovisual material from the traditional New Year’s speech of the President. It was provided within a section called “dead serious” run by two journalists well-known for their satire and comedy work. The given clip contained features in...

On 15 January 2013, the Council for Broadcasting and Retransmission of the Slovak Republic (“CBR”) imposed a fine of EUR 1,500 on the major commercial broadcaster for the failure to inform the public about the existence of product placement in its programme and for giving undue prominence to the product in question. The programme was a reality show taking place in a bar. Even though the bar was an operating business, it was built solely for the purpose of producing the reality show. The bar contained many products with commercial logos visible. Since this programme was under the exclusive editorial...

The Supreme Court on 13 November 2012 confirmed a decision of the Council for Broadcasting and Retransmission of the Slovak republic (“Council”) in which the Council had imposed a fine of EUR 3,319 on the major commercial TV station broadcasting the channel “TV JOJ” for broadcasting more than 12 minutes of advertising in one hour. The Council’s monitoring revealed that during one of the examined hours the broadcaster transmitted advertising spots that altogether lasted 11 minutes and 59 seconds. However, during the same hour, another message (of 19 sec.) about a film that was coming to cinemas...