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On 28 July 1999, the competent Italian authorities granted Centro Europa 7 the terrestrial television broadcasting rights on the national level, authorising the installation and the use of a television network utilising analogue technology, according to the provisions of act 249/1997. The administrative measure did not allocate Centro Europa 7 the specific radio frequencies. In fact, in order to be allocated frequencies for such broadcasting activities, Centro Europa 7 had to await the national allocation plan for radio frequencies. In the event, however, the national allocation plan for radio...

According to the Television Without Frontiers Directive (Directive 89/552/EEC, as amended by Directive 97/36/EC), teleshopping comes in the form of either teleshopping spots or teleshopping windows: the former are subject to an hourly 12-minute limit, whereas the latter are required to be longer than 15 minutes. Conversely, under Italian law prior to November 2007, teleshopping was required to have a minimum duration of 3 minutes and was not subject to the hourly 12-minute limit, which only applied to advertising spots. This was one of the reasons which led the European Commission toinitiate a...

On 28 July 1999, Centro Europa 7 was granted rights by the competent Italian authorities for terrestrial television broadcasting at the national level, authorising the installation and use of a television network using analogue technology. The national allocation plan for radio frequencies adopted on 30 October 1998 would see to the allocation of frequencies for such broadcasting activities. However, the plan was never adopted. Instead a series of national laws succeeded each other, which prevented Centro Europa 7 from effectively making use of its rights to the benefit of incumbent operators....

On 30 March 2006, the Republic of Italy and the Republic of Turkey signed a film co-production agreement. The aim of the agreement is to improve the basic conditions for film co-productions between the two countries in the film, television, video and new media fields. The agreement is based on the idea that co-productions benefit the partners from both the technical and the artistic point of view. Financially, its purpose is to help both film producers and distributors. The parties are convinced it will help to foster the ongoing development of their cultural relations. It provides for a number...

The support measure contained in the Italian Law 296/2006 of 27 December 2006, which grants an income tax deduction to consumers who purchase television sets with integrated tuner and digital decoders during 2007, has been found to be compatible with EC Treaty state aid rules. The income tax reduction amounts to 20% of the price paid for the equipment (up to a maximum deduction of EUR 200 per decoder) and represents a total budget measure of EUR 40 million. Though the measure was found to give an indirect advantage to broadcasters using digital technologies (who benefit from state-subsidised means...