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On 3 July 2002, the Autorità per le garanzie nelle comunicazioni (Italian Communications Authority - AGCOM) started a project with the aim of analysing the distribution of financial resources in the Italian broadcasting sector during the period 1998-2000 (Analisi della distribuzione delle risorse economiche del settore televisivo nel triennio 1998-2000, Deliberation n. 212/02/CONS, in Gazzetta Ufficiale of 10 August 2002, n. 187). The analysis will consider a survey based on a decision adopted by AGCOM on 13 June 2000 concerning the verification of actual and possible future developments in the...

At its meeting in Paris on 13 March 2002, the Committee on Culture, Science and Education of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe expressed a critical opinion on the media situation in Italy. The Committee stressed its concern at the fact that the Italian Government is, directly or indirectly, in control of all national television channels. It found that the Italian Prime Minister, Silvio Berlusconi, is still the owner of three national private television channels and of an important publishing group, and has not yet isolated himself from running his media interests. The Committee...

On 15 November 2001 the Autorità per le garanzie nelle comunicazioni (Italian Communications Authority) adopted a regulation concerning the licensing of digital terrestrial radio and television broadcasting pursuant to article 2bis para 7, of law no. 66/2001 (Conversione in legge, con modificazioni, del decreto-legge 23 gennaio 2001, n. 5, recante disposizioni urgenti per il differimento di termini in materia di trasmissioni radiotelevisive analogiche e digitali, nonché per il risanamento di impianti radiotelevisivi, Legge of 20 March 2001, no. 66, in Gazzetta Ufficiale of 24 March 2001, no. 70,...

On 8 October 2001 a new Regulation on advertising and teleshopping adopted on 25 July by the Autorità per le garanzie nelle comunicazioni (the Italian Communications Authority) pursuant to the Istituzione dell'Autorità per le Garanzie nelle Comunicazioni e norme sui sistemi delle telecomunicazioni e radiotelevisivo (the Communications Act) of 31 July 1997, no. 249 (see IRIS 1997-8: 10), will enter into force. The Regulation represents the final step of a procedure begun on 10 March 2000 with the launch of a public consultation (see IRIS 2000-9: 10). It applies to all radio and television broadcasters,...

The Autorità per le Garanzie nelle Comunicazioni (Italian Communications Authority) has, after careful deliberation, and as published in the Gazzetta Ufficiale della Repubblica (Official Journal of Italy) of 3 May 2001, adopted a list of all the official dispositions aiming to regulate the concession of authorisation and licences for satellite services. The aim of the document is to set out a whole list of obligations and conditions which have to be met in order to apply for a satellite service concession. Among these is the obligation on operators to respect all impositions and limits set by the...