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On 21 November 2012 AGCOM published the results of the survey about the advertising revenues sector in Italy. The aim of the survey has been to analyse the competition structure of the advertising revenues side in the overall Italian communication market, considered separately from the final users side pursuant to the approach generally followed by the competition authorities. The survey has been conducted taking into account both traditional mass media (broadcasting, radio, press, directories, theatrical and outdoor advertising) and on-line advertising. Advertising revenues represent the main...

Following the public consultation launched with Deliberation no. 130/12/CONS (see IRIS 2012-6/23) which led in October 2012 to the approval of a draft sent for comments to the Ministry of Economic Development, on 29th November 2012 AGCOM (the Italian Communications Authority) approved Deliberation no. 587/12/CONS. With this deliberation, adopted pursuant to Article 45, para 4, of the Italian AVMS Code, AGCOM approved the guidelines for the contract of public service broadcasting, subscribed every three years by RAI Radiotelevisione Italiana spa (Italian public service broadcaster) and the Ministry...

Agcom has issued a public consultation on the new logical channel numbering plan (LCN) for digital terrestrial television pursuant to the four judgments of the Consiglio di Stato (the Italian High Administrative Court) that declared void the plan adopted by decision n. 366/10/CONS (see IRIS 2012-9/28). The draft of the new plan confirms the general approach of assigning the numbers in ten blocks and the special reserve of the first positions to the historical ex analogue broadcasters, and amends the provisions of the old plan according to the remarks made by the Consiglio di Stato. Agcom has now...

Following the amendments to the Italian AVMS Code introduced in July 2012 by the Legislative Decree no. 120/2012 (see IRIS 2012-8/32) and pursuant to the new Article 34 of the Code, regarding the protection of minors, Agcom adopted on 4 October 2012 a deliberation establishing a technical board to adopt, through co-regulation procedures, the technical measures regarding the protection of minors on VOD services, to prevent them from viewing content that “might seriously impair” the physical, mental or moral development of minors; these are considered to be, in particular, programmes that involve...

On 2 August 2012, by Deliberation no 350/12/CONS, the Autorità per le garanzie nelle comunicazioni (Italian Communications Authority - Agcom) has amended the Regulation on Digital Terrestrial Television adopted by Deliberation no. 353/11/CONS (see IRIS 2011-10/28). The amendments concern the requirements of share capital and the number of employees for the release of authorizations during the switch-over period and after switch off and the types of companies that may be holders of authorizations.