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In the Czech Republic, advertising is regulated by Act No. 40/1995 (Advertising Regulation Act), according to which, subject to a few exceptions, tobacco advertising and sponsorship by tobacco products/companies is generally prohibited (see IRIS 2002-9: 14 and IRIS 2003-6: 12). Such advertising is only allowed in the press and other printed matter that is exclusively intended for persons working in the tobacco trade and in publications printed and published in third countries, provided that they are not primarily intended for the Community market. The Act does not exclude the possibility of tobacco...

The European Commission approved with its decision C(2007)3280 of 29 June 2007 the state aid provided by the Czech Republic for the production of audiovisual programmes (Eurovize). The Czech Republic had duly notified the Commission of the measure, the principal aim of which is to inform the Czech general public via audiovisual works how public institutions (such as Czech ministries and the European Investment Bank), Czech municipalities and other state organisations contribute to the preservation of the cultural heritage and the development of tourism in the Czech Republic. Individual aid is granted...

Following the plan for radio spectrum utilisation, the Ceský telekomunikacni urád (Czech Telecommunication Office), in December 2006, issued the Technical Plan for the Transition from Terrestrial Analogue Television Broadcasting to Terrestrial Digital Television Broadcasting (“Technical Transition Plan“). In the Technical Transition Plan the Czech Telecommunication Office laid down, in particular, the deadlines, conditions and procedures for the process of developing electronic communications networks for terrestrial digital television broadcasting, including the deadlines, conditions and procedures...

The Supreme Administrative Court of the Czech Republic has established criteria for appraising the distinction between advertising and sponsoring in its ruling dated 30 November 2006. The starting point for this development involved various decisions of the Czech Rada pro rozhlasové a televizní vysílání (Broadcasting Council) in which it had imposed fines on various broadcasting companies for introducing advertising into sponsorship material. The decisions by the Broadcasting Council were contested in later proceedings. Some decisions were subsequently upheld by the Prague municipal court while...

On 6 March 2007, the Supreme Administrative Court of the Czech Republic issued its verdict in a case concerning the use of television and radio receivers in restaurants. The plaintiff was the owner of a restaurant in Prague who had set up radio and television receivers on her premises. The Prague municipal authorities had fined her because she had not paid a fee to the Ochranný svaz autorský pro práva k dílům hudebním (copyright collecting company - OSA), which was responsible for protecting copyright in the Czech Republic, thus infringing the Copyright Act. The plaintiff argued that radio and...