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On 21 February 2012, the European Commission against Racism and Intolerance (ECRI) released its latest reports on Iceland, Italy, Latvia, Luxembourg, Montenegro and Ukraine, adopted in the fourth cycle of its monitoring of the laws, policies and practices to combat racism in the Member States of the Council of Europe (for commentary on earlier reports, see IRIS 2011-4/3, IRIS 2010-9/2, IRIS 2010-4/3, IRIS 2009-10/109, IRIS 2009-8/4, IRIS 2009-5/4, IRIS 2008-4/5, IRIS 2006-6/4 and IRIS 2005-7/2). With the exception of the Report on Montenegro, all of these reports contain sections focusing specifically...

The Italian government has adopted a reform (known as "Decreto Liberalizzazioni"), aimed at promoting the value of market competition. The recent Law Decree takes into account various issues, including neighbouring rights. Article 39 of the Decree states that in order to favour the creation of new undertakings aimed at protecting the rights of performers and producers - by enhancing competitive pluralism and allowing for a more economic-oriented management, as well as by favouring the actual involvement and control by rightsholders - administration and intermediation activities relating to neighbouring...

On 12 December 2011 the Autorità per le garanzie nelle comunicazioni (the Italian Communications Authority - AGCOM) adopted Deliberation no. 682/11/CONS amending the regulation on the resolution of conflicts of interest approved by Deliberation No. 417/04/CONS, according to Act no. 215/2004 (see IRIS 2004-10/30). According to this regulation, as already amended by Deliberation No. 392/05/CONS, AGCOM monitors the behaviour of media service providers headed or controlled by holders of a government post and providing privileged support to the latter. For this purpose, AGCOM evaluates any conduct,...

On 17 November 2011 the Autorità per le Garanzie nelle Comunicazioni (Italian Communications authority - AGCOM) started an investigation procedure, to be concluded by 12 March 2012, aimed at detecting emerging platforms for the sale of audiovisual sports rights. Prior to the launch of a public consultation audiovisual media service providers operating on different distribution platforms had been asked to provide information on the media services they offer and the technological standards and equipments they employ. To support the development and growth of emerging platforms, Legislative decree...

On 13 July 2011 the Second Chamber of the Latium Regional Administrative Tribunal handed down its judgment on the complaint filed by the broadcaster Sky Italia seeking the annulment of AGCOM Decision 667/10/CONS. That judgment provides valuable insights as to the consistency between the Audiovisual Media Services Directive and the Italian regulatory framework on short news reports. The Italian Communications Authority adopted Decision 667/10/CONS laying down a regulation on short news reports on 17 December 2010 (see IRIS 2011-8/32). The legal basis for that regulation is Article 32-quater of the...