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On 6 March 2012 the Constitutional Court issued a decision concerning the Czech writer Michael Viewegh. In 2004 the newspaper Aha! published a report about Viewegh’s alleged affair with a mistress with the subtitles "My secret lover", "V. likes young author" and "He showed me his big pencil sharpener”. The writer claimed that he knew the woman only as a pupil and met with her only in the classroom. He said months after the publishing of the article he still was not at ease. Furthermore, advertising on television repeatedly aired the article and the information therefore reached not only readers...

On 8 March 2012, the Constitutional Court rejected the complaint of FTV Prima Ltd. against the judgment of the Supreme Administrative Court of 14 September 2011, the judgment of the Municipal Court in Prague of 17 March 2011 and the decision of the Council for Radio and Television Broadcasting of 22 June 2010. In the constitutional complaint delivered to the Court the petitioner sought the annulment of the above decisions, because of a breach of the constitutionally guaranteed fundamental right to freedom of expression, as protected by Art. 17 of the Charter of Fundamental Rights and Freedoms and...

On 6 September 2011 the Parliament of the Czech Republic adopted amendments to audiovisual legislation that concern advertising and teleshopping in public television programmes and the funding of Czech cinematography. During the transition period from analogue to digital terrestrial television broadcasting the public broadcaster ČT is allowed to broadcast advertising in the amount of 0.75 percent of the daily broadcasting time in the programme of CT 1 and of 0.5 percent in other programmes. A part of the income from this is reserved for the support of the Czech cinematography sector. With regard...

On 19 July 2011 the European Commission sent requests for information in the form of letters of formal notice, the first step in the process of an EU infringement procedure, to 20 EU member states. The member states in question, namely Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Cyprus, the Czech Republic, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia and Spain, have not yet notified to the Commission measures to implement the new EU Telecoms Package, formally adopted after two years of heated negotiations at the end of 2009...

A campaign of the civic rights organisation Iuridicum Remedium (IuRe) against the public surveillance of everyday communication resulted in considerable success: spying on communication was judged unconstitutional. On 31 March 2011 the Constitutional Court agreed with IuRe privacy protection activists and a group of 51 MPs, who in March 2010 had submitted a proposal calling for a repeal of the relevant sections of the Electronic Communications Act implementing obligations on mobile operators and internet providers to retain communications data for the purpose of police investigations. The Electronic...