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On 15 March 2012 the Autorità per le Garanzie nelle Comunicazioni (Italian Communications authority - AGCOM) gave final approval to a resolution concerning the list of events of major importance to society, pursuant to Article 32-ter of the Italian audiovisual and radio media services code (legislative decree no. 177/2005, as amended in 2010, see IRIS 2010-2/25 and IRIS 2010-4/31), which implements Article 14 of the Audiovisual Media Services Directive. This resolution ends a process of amending, reviewing and updating the previous and, until now, unmodified list, adopted with Resolution n. 8/99...

On 14 March 2012 the “Regione Lazio” in Italy adopted a reform (known as "Interventi Regionali per il Cinema e l’Audiovisivo"), aimed at promoting cinema and audiovisual fields according to Articles 21 and 33 of the Italian Constitution. Essentially, the regional government aim is to support the activities of production, distribution, export, promotion, cinema exhibition, preservation, study and dissemination of audiovisual works. The need for a regional act on cinema was based on two critical aspects of the system: 1) the fragmentation of regulation, resulting in a confused and inefficient use...

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,...