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On 24 December 2003, the Italian Parliament adopted the national budget for 2004 (Disposizioni per la formazione del bilancio annuale e pluriennale dello Stato (legge finanziaria 2004), Act of 24 December 2003, no. 350) and set up a fund for the promotion of purchases or rentals of decoders for cable and terrestrial digital television (C-DVB and T-DVB) sold or rented from 1 January 2004 and contracts for broadband access to the Internet signed after 1 December 2003. In the first case, the public contribution is of EUR 150 per consumer out of a total fund of EUR 110 million, and in the second case,...

On 19 November 2003, the Minister for Communications, the Minister for Innovation and Technology and the main associations of Internet service providers signed a new self-regulatory Code of Conduct aimed at protecting children from potentially damaging use of, and from unsuitable content on, the Internet. On the basis of the self-prescribed set of rules, Internet providers will not only implement and promote measures in order to provide differentiated navigation services (which restrict or exclude access to certain content), but they will also provide content classification and will abstain from...

Pursuant to Article 2, paragraph 7, of the Act no. 249/97, Istituzione dell'Autorità per le Garanzie nelle Comunicazioni e norme sui sistemi delle telecomunicazioni e radiotelevisivo (Communications Act of 31 July 1997 , hereinafter "the Act" ­ see IRIS 1997-8: 10) and to the Regulation no. 26/99, Regolamento in materia di costituzione e mantenimento di posizioni dominanti nel settore delle comunicazioni (Dominant Positions Regulation ­ see IRIS 1999-7: 11), on 26 June 2003 the Autorità per le Garanzie nelle Comunicazioni, (Italian Communications Authority ­ AGCOM) adopted Decision no. 226/03/CONS...

Pursuant to the Istituzione dell'Autorità per le Garanzie nelle Comunicazioni e norme sui sistemi delle telecomunicazioni e radiotelevisivo (Communications Act of 31 July 1997, no. 249, see IRIS 1997-8: 10), the Disciplina del sistema radiotelevisivo pubblico e privato, (Broadcasting Act of 6 August 1990, no. 223) and the Disposizioni per la parità di accesso ai mezzi di informazione durante le campagne elettorali e referendarie e per la comunicazione politica (Political Pluralism Act, Act of 22 February 2000, no. 28) and following claims from some Italian political parties, both majority and minority...

On 9 April 2003, the Italian Parliament adopted Legislative Decree n. 68/03, which is aimed at implementing Directive 2001/29/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 22 May 2001 on the harmonisation of certain aspects of copyright and related rights in the information society (see IRIS 2001-5: 3). The text of the Decree consists of 41 articles and gives effect to the most important modification of the text of the Italian general Law on Copyright (Law n. 633/1941) since its first adoption in 1941 (see also IRIS 1997-1: 11 and IRIS 2000-9: 15). The aim of the Decree is basically to...