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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.

On 4 September 2012, the Autorità per le garanzie nelle comunicazioni (Italian Communications Authority - AGCOM) adopted resolution no. 392/12/CONS amending Regulation no. 667/10/CONS on short news reports of events of high interest to the public transmitted on an exclusive basis by a broadcaster under Italian jurisdiction. This regulation was adopted pursuant to Article 32-quarter of the Italian AVMS Code, which implemented Article 15 of the AVMS Directive (see IRIS 2011-8/32 and IRIS Plus 2012-4). The amendment follows a judgment of 23 March 2012 of the Consiglio di Stato (the High administrative...

The logical channel numbering plan (LCN) for digital terrestrial television adopted by AGCOM - Autorità per le garanzie nelle comunicazioni (the Italian Communication Authority) has been declared void by four judgments (no. 04658/2012, no. 04659/2012, no. 04660/2012, no. 04661/2012) of the Consiglio di Stato (the Italian High Administrative Court) published on 31 August 2012. The LCN plan was adopted with AGCOM resolution no 366/10/CONS of 15 July 2010 pursuant to Article 32 of the Italian AVMS Code after a public consultation and a specific survey on the preferences and behaviours of viewers. The...