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Following an amendment to the legal framework the elections for the members of the EU Parliament were included on the list of contests that should receive fair coverage by the media. The Normative Administrative Act KDP.207/2009 amended certain provisions of the Regulations on Fair Treatment of Parties and Candidates (KDP.193/2006) so that contestants in EU Parliament elections are treated fairly as in the case of Presidential, Parliamentary and Local Authorities elections. The Regulations on Fair Treatment of Parties and Candidates were issued in conformity with the Law on Radio and Television...

In accordance with Article 10 of the Telecommunications Law 112(I)/2004, requiring the Telecommunications Commissioner to ensure maximum benefit to end-users, new regulations set the terms and conditions under which providers give access to their network and services for terrestrial digital TV. The Regulations are provided in a decree issued by the Commissioner for Telecommunications and Postal Services, enacted as Normative Administrative Act KDP.200/2009. This also harmonizes Cypriot law with European Community Directives 2002/19/EC, 2000/20/EC and 2000/21/EC and the relevant documents of the...

The Supreme Administrative Court of the Czech Republic banned advertising of a dietary supplement in a ruling of 29 January 2009. The Czech Advertising Regulations Act prohibits advertising that claims that dietary supplements are able to cure or prevent human illnesses. Liability for advertising lies with the contractor. The Broadcasting Council is responsible for regulating television advertising. The company Mediarex Communications and Consulting s.r.o. had commissioned television advertising of the dietary supplement Preventan akut . In the advertising, the product was described as having...

The way in which media covered a case of ill-treatment of two students by the police was one of the reasons that led the Assize Court of Nicosia to dismiss charges against the suspects as this interfered with the course of justice in many ways. Negative publicity, abuse of the suspects, violations of their rights and of the principle of a fair trial by the media were some of the findings mentioned in the verdict. The decision caused a public outcry and criticism of the courts, as well as a clash between the Attorney General and the Court. The case is based on an incident between two students and...

The Supreme Court of Cyprus decided that the broadcasting of an advertisement by a parapsychologist claiming that she could solve a number of problems, such as stress at work, alcoholism, domestic violence, love relations and others, breaches the law. The Court was concerned with an appeal of SIGMA TV against a decision of the Radio Television Authority (RTA) to impose a fine of CYP 2,000 (EUR 3,400) on the channel for transmitting the advertisement in question. In December 2004 an anonymous viewer complained to the RTA that SIGMA TV advertised the services of a ‘psychologist by intuition’ claiming...