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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...

The Council for Broadcasting and Retransmission of the Slovak Republic (“Council”) in April 2012 imposed a fine of EUR 497 on the (radio) public service broadcaster (PSB) for failing in its obligation to clearly separate (by acoustic means) advertising from editorial content. Although the present case concerned a radio station, its outcome may also be applied to audiovisual media, since the separation obligation is also valid for the latter. The PSB aired a short message about a new Slovak film. The spot contained short extracts from the film along with the date of its premiere. It also introduced...